If you are not hip to this already, you must discover Ron Carter: The Smithsonian Interview .
This fascinating book is described on Maestro’s web site as a “Coffee table art book based on the full transcript of the historic 2011 interview for the Smithsonian Oral History Project.” If you’ll allow me a moment of self-promotion, this historic 2011 interview was conducted by yours truly and I was astounded to learn (and more than a little pleased) that the interview was used in its entirety without any editing.
But what makes this book so great are the alternating pages. He enlisted the help of Simone Banos and Penny Kjellberg (he calls them his Necessary Others) to create an immersive experience that include full page photos, QR codes to music and video examples, and a timeline that provides context for the what was happening at the time. I am so proud to have been a catalyst for this amazing project.
