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DESCRIPTION:Event Name: Berklee Signature Concert Series: Ron Carter and th
 e Berklee World Strings\nEvent Url: http://www.artsboston.org/event/detail
 /440932307/Berklee_Signature_Concert_Series_Ron_Carter_and_the_Berklee_Wor
 ld_Strings\nEvent Date Begin: 2010-10-14\nEvent Date End: 2010-10-14\n\nBO
 STON\, September 27\, 2010 &ndash\; The 2010 Berklee College of Music Sign
 ature Series continues on October 14 as Grammy Award-winning bassist Ron C
 arter joins the Berklee World Strings in a tribute to the legendary bebopp
 er Oscar Pettford. One of the most original\, prolific and influential bas
 sists in music\, Carter will play the piccolo bass in homage to Pettiford\
 , who was one of the very first jazz musicians to perform on a cello inste
 ad of a double bass.\n\nAudiences can catch the jazz legend perform with B
 erklee students and faculty on Thursday\, October 14\, at 8:15 p.m. at the
  Berklee Performance Center\, 136 Massachusetts Avenue\, Boston. General a
 dmission tickets are $20-$25 and are available at the box office\, at tick
 etmaster.com or by calling 617.931.2000. For more information\, call 617.7
 47.2261 or visit berkleebpc.com.\n\nSharing the stage with the Berklee Wor
 ld Strings and a 5-student horn section\, Carter will perform as part of a
  quartet\, bringing a full sound to the Berklee Performance Center. The Be
 rklee World Strings\, directed by Eugene Friesen\, is a 27-student ensembl
 e devoted to performing music that features improvisation and the rhythmic
  capabilities of string instruments and players. The quartet will include 
 Berklee faculty member Terri Lyne Carrington on drums\, bassist Leon &ldqu
 o\;Boone&rdquo\; Maleson and pianist and arranger Eric Gould. When he's no
 t performing\, Gould also serves as Carter's manager and as director of Be
 rklee City Music network's site at the Cleveland Music School Settlement.
 \n\nOne of the most-recorded jazz bassists\, Carter has played on more tha
 n 2000 albums with a variety of superstars\, including James Brown\, Lena 
 Horne\, Thelonious Monk\, B.B. King\, Aretha Franklin and A Tribe Called Q
 uest. From 1963-1968\, Carter was a member of the Miles Davis Quintet. As 
 a bandleader\, Carter released more than a dozen albums &ndash\; the most 
 recent was Jazz and Bossa (2008). Carter served as artistic director of th
 e Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Studies and was named Distinguished Pr
 ofessor Emeritus at City College of New York.\n\nThe Berklee College of Mu
 sic Signature Series embraces the college's global community and Boston's 
 diverse musical tastes. Upcoming shows include Jorge Drexler (11/18) and t
 he annual Singers Showcase spotlighting the Beatles' Abbey Road (12/2). Mo
 st of the performances feature Berklee faculty and students. For more info
 rmation on these events\, visit Berklee.edu/events.\n\nStart time: 8:15pm
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SUMMARY:Berklee Signature Concert Series: Ron Carter and the Berklee World 
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