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Carles Benavent

Born: March 1, 1954

The product of a musical crossroads, a border, a meeting place between very different cultures, but dominated by jazz and flamenco, the career of Carles Benavent began in a watershed year for Europe, 1968, in the popular and endearing Barcelonan neighborhood of Poble Sec when, at the tender age of 13, he formed his first group, Crack, which in 1970 became Máquina!. From an explosive clash to the perfectly-oiled machinery of teamwork. Five years later, together with Joan Albert Amargós, he founded Música Urbana, Spain's flagship of jazz-fusion.

Starting in the late 70’s, appearing in various groupings throughout the country, his name began to figure alongside those of the most distinguished musicians on the Spanish jazz scene, such as Kitflus Tito Duarte and Max Sunyer, with whom he formed a trio filled out by Salvador Niebla.

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 ...

Nguyen Le: Encanto

by Mike Jacobs
October 14, 2023

It's a rare thing to have two bassists playing together on one track let alone two at the top of opposite ends of the acoustic/electric bass spectrum, but that's exactly what guitarist Nguyen Le managed on his enthralling tune, “Encanto." From Le's album Bakida (ACT, 2000), he is joined by bass titans Carles Benavent on electric ...

Dedicat

By Joan Sanmarti

Label: Jazzgranollers records
Released: 2022
Track listing: 1 - Que han dicho los otros 2 - Postludi d'un any 3 - Sides of the Same Coin 4 - Dedicat

Dedicat

May 7, 2022

Album: Dedicat
By Joan Sanmarti
Label: Jazzgranollers records
Released: 2022
Duration: 08:12

John McLaughlin, Senri Kawaguchi, Carles Benevent and Elemental

by Len Davis
April 10, 2022

John McLaughlin fromThe Montreaux Years, Japanese drummer Senri Kawaguchi, Spanish bassist Carles Benavent and Steve Hunt.Playlist John McLaughlin “Acid Jazz" from The Montreaux Years (BMG) 00:00 Senri Kawaguchi"Wupatki" from Live In Yokahama (King Records) 07:48 Aurora Clara “Dancing In The Forest" from Transformatiom (Youkali Music) 15:48 Carles Benavent “Otra" from Vida (Bebyne) 23:40 Benny ...

Tino Di Geraldo, Etienne Mbappe, Scary Goldings, Billy Cobham, Dave Weckl Band

by Len Davis
November 19, 2021

Etienne Mbappe from his new album Time Will Tell, Scary Goldings, Billy Cobham, Dave Weckl and Canadian guitarist Jeremy Green. Playlist Tino Di Geraldo-Carles Benavent"Discipline" from Discipline (Muba) 00:00 Etienne Mbappe “Kalos" from Time Will Tell (Sunset) 06:51 Scary Goldings “Professor Vicarious" from Professor Vicarious (Pockets) 13:39 Billy Cobham “Roller-The Reflex Revision" from Drum'n ...

Brad Shepik, Carles Benavent, New York Gypsy All Stars, Herbie Hancock, Soft Machine, Larry Coryell

by Len Davis
September 12, 2021

Part 2 of our special segment featuring Ethnic Embraces taken from a series of articles from Mike Jacobs on all About Jazz called Backtracks featuring New York Gypsies, Carles Benavent and Brad Shepik. We then visit the seventies with music from Herbie Hancock, Brand X, Soft Machine, and Larry Coryel. Playlist New York Gypsy ...

Ethnic Embraces

by Mike Jacobs
August 16, 2021

For the fourth installment in the continuing BackTracks series, we take a look at some notable releases that infuse their jazz with stylistic spice indigenous to different regions of the world—namely North Africa, the Iberian peninsula and the Balkans. As BackTracks was on a hiatus of sorts (and because these recordings seemed to emerge in matched ...