CARTER, RONALD LEVIN (RON
). Jazz bassist ( in Ferndale, Michigan). He came from a musical family in which all the children played instruments. As a child he played with other siblings in chamber groups. He began playing cello at the age of ten, then changed to string bass during his high-school years in Detroit. He obtained his musical education at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York (B. Mus., 1959), where he played in the Rochester...