Jazz Articles about Carles Benavent

Carles Benavent: Sevillona

by Mike Jacobs
March 8, 2024

Carles Benavent: Three Women / Good Morning Anya (Pastorius)

by Mike Jacobs
November 28, 2023

Like many icons that leave the world too soon, the late Jaco Pastorius' surviving catalog has been pored over ad nauseam in the years since his death, and rightfully so. But perhaps one of the most rewarding examples of this is the Pastorius composition “Three Women" and its rescue from obscurity by arranger / keyboardist Gil Goldstein. The piece only ever existed in recorded form as a poorly-recorded piano sketch (on the posthumously-released, Live In New York City Vol 5 ...

Carles Benavent: Un, Dos, Tres...

by Bruce Lindsay
January 22, 2013

In a 40-year career that has encompassed jazz, rock, fusion and the establishment of the electric bass guitar in flamenco music, Barcelona musician Carles Benavent has constantly evolved his approach to his chosen instrument. His most notable collaborations, with guitarist Paco De Lucia and pianist Chick Corea, are part of a musical story which also includes a series of albums as leader. Un, Dos, Tres... is the seventh of this impressive series and finds Benavent in top form as a ...

Carles Benavent: Jazz, Flamenco and Blues

by Bruce Lindsay
January 22, 2013

Of all the instrumentalists in contemporary music, only a handful have become game changers. Jazz trumpet has Louis Armstrong, rock guitar has Jimi Hendrix, jazz saxophone has Charlie Parker. Flamenco bass guitar has Carles Benavent. Benavent's fluid, melodic and emotive style of playing is as beautiful as it is distinctive. Developed initially from a love of the blues, his playing has, over the years, enabled him to extend his reach into rock and jazz fusion as well as flamenco. In ...

Carles Benavent, un mar de buenas vibraciones

by Guillem Vidal
November 25, 2009

Hace tres años, Carles Benavent (Barcelona, 1954) iba paseando por los alrededores de la plaza de la Catedral, en pleno Barrio Gótico de Barcelona, cuando un extraño sonido lo atrapó. Era el hang, un nuevo y hechizante instrumento melódico de percusión de origen suizo cuyo sonido marcaría al cabo de muy poco tiempo el nuevo proyecto del bajista catalán.

“Oía de lejos ese sonido y, al cabo de unos segundos, me encontré a Ravid Goldschmidt, a ...