Carles Benavent

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 [a1022514]. At 13 he founded the blues trio Crac (2) with [a1629766] (drums) and [a1642738] (guitar). In 1969 the three of them joined Enric Herrera to refound Máquina. In 1975 he founded Música Urbana with Joan Albert Amargos (piano, clarinet), Salvador Font and Lluis Cabanach (guitar). He has also played with a lot of Spanish jazz-rock musicians, including Kitflus, Tito Duarte, and Jorge Pardo.