Jazz Legend Ron Carter Discusses a Life in the Music Business

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Ron Carter
A legendary player with one of the most recognizable tones in all of jazz, bassist Ron Carter has appeared on literally thousands of recordings over the course of his nearly fifty-year career. Aside from his distinguished career leading his own units, he has played with a who’s who of jazz players of the last half-century, and established himself as one of the genre’s all-time greats.

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Legendary jazz bassist Ron Carter discusses his career and the state of the music business with ArtistsHouse’s John Snyder at Loyola University, New Orleans. He explains why he has an agent but not a manager, why illegal music downloading does not concern him, why independent releases and small labels end up stealing as much money from artists as the big labels do, why he has his own publishing company, how he deals with advances and royalty collections, what BMI and ASCAP do, why he still wears a suit when he performs, and much more.

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