Carles Benavent
Carles Benavent Guinart
appears on 1 album
Spanish bass player, born March 1, 1954 in Barcelona.
Benavent's greatest contribution to music is to have given a major role to bass guitar in flamenco music with the Paco de Lucia Sextet in the 1980's. He's played too with Miles Davis, Chick Corea and .
At 13 he founded the blues trio Crac with (drums) and (guitar). In 1969 the three of them joined to refound Máquina. In 1975 he founded Música Urbana with (piano, clarinet), Salvador Font and (guitar).
Member of
- Paco De Lucia Sextet
- Máquina
- Música Urbana
- Los Jovenes Flamencos
- El Trío
- Crac
- Max Sunyer Trio
- Paco De Lucia & Sextet