Respond to This

Benavent: flamenco bass

Benavent is one of the best Spanish bass players. He has played with Paco de Luca, Camarn, Miles Davis and Chick Corea... amongs others.

Here an example of the flamenco sound he gets from his bass, playing with Corea in the prestigious Jazz event of Victoria Gasteiz:

Responses
Respond to this

Re: Benavent: flamenco bass

2/21/2010 7:52 PM

Bruce Humphrey Ventura (2559) wrote:

He was interviewed this saturday in a Spanish newspaper. Amongst other things, I liked:

Q: discipline or talent?
A: Whatever discipline is needed so your talent is not lost.

"A musician dies with his boots on"

Also, he is Catalan... and was playing electric bass in an Andalucian (south of Spain) acustic instruments environment, so he had some prejudices to overcome: "imagine if he had been from here..." "He, the Catalan with the chinese guitar..."

Respond to this

Re: Benavent: flamenco bass

2/22/2010 7:56 AM

Ivan Thuringer (40918) wrote:

Man! He is good!!

Respond to this

Re: Benavent: flamenco bass

2/23/2010 12:52 PM

Clifton Jackson (35274) wrote:

Yo Bruce,
Awesome! I meet Chick many years ago, Super guy! We had a nice talk!! He knows how to pick his band mates!! :^D
Black Hawk
clap