Carles Benavent
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Carles Benavent is a flamenco
and jazz
bassist
. Benavent has played alongside Paco de Lucía
, Chick Corea
and Miles Davis
. He developed a new style of bass that has been integrated into flamenco music. His preferred instrument is the fretless bass.
One of the hallmark pieces that first showed the uniqueness of his playing was his duet with Paco de Lucia on Paco's album "Solo Quiero Caminar", called Monasterio De Sal (Colombiana). On the same album, his use of harmonics and his groove playing on the track Chanela (Rumba) are reminiscent of the great jazz bassist Jaco Pastorius.
Flamenco
Flamenco is a genre of music and dance which has its foundation in Andalusian music and dance and in whose evolution Andalusian Gypsies played an important part....
and jazz
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
bassist
Bassist
A bass player, or bassist is a musician who plays a bass instrument such as a double bass, bass guitar, keyboard bass or a low brass instrument such as a tuba or sousaphone. Different musical genres tend to be associated with one or more of these instruments...
. Benavent has played alongside Paco de Lucía
Paco de Lucía
Paco de Lucía, born Francisco Sánchez Gómez , is a Spanish virtuoso flamenco guitarist and composer. He is considered by many to be one of the finest guitarists in the world and the greatest guitarist of the flamenco genre...
, Chick Corea
Chick Corea
Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea is an American jazz pianist, keyboardist, and composer.Many of his compositions are considered jazz standards. As a member of Miles Davis' band in the 1960s, he participated in the birth of the electric jazz fusion movement. In the 1970s he formed Return to Forever...
and Miles Davis
Miles Davis
Miles Dewey Davis III was an American jazz musician, trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Miles Davis was, with his musical groups, at the forefront of several major developments in jazz music, including bebop, cool jazz,...
. He developed a new style of bass that has been integrated into flamenco music. His preferred instrument is the fretless bass.
One of the hallmark pieces that first showed the uniqueness of his playing was his duet with Paco de Lucia on Paco's album "Solo Quiero Caminar", called Monasterio De Sal (Colombiana). On the same album, his use of harmonics and his groove playing on the track Chanela (Rumba) are reminiscent of the great jazz bassist Jaco Pastorius.