Alain Caron F bass funk

[bubinga5]

Alain Caron's playing on this is so bad ass.....i cant think of a tighter rythm section than this... awsome Billy Cobham track too..

at 55 seconds, has got to be some of the most tasteful slap bass playing ive heard.. just amazing!!! imo

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcNDp8JoJFM"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcNDp8JoJFM[/url]

[voxpop]

thanks for the clip... I love this guys sound.

[Doddy]

[quote name='bubinga5' post='1360887' date='Sep 3 2011, 12:36 PM']Alain Caron's playing on this is so bad ass.....i cant think of a tighter rythm section than this... awsome Billy Cobham track too..[/quote]
It's an Eddie Harris tune.

I had Alain's album 'La Band' (with this track on) on tape years ago and it blew me away. His technique
is really clean,and so good. He's a killer player.

[bubinga5]

[quote name='Doddy' post='1360940' date='Sep 3 2011, 01:36 PM']It's an Eddie Harris tune.

I had Alain's album 'La Band' (with this track on) on tape years ago and it blew me away. His technique
is really clean,and so good. He's a killer player.[/quote]Thanks Doddy, did he do the original?... yeah i really dig his very clean technique in the slap parts..

[Bilbo]

The version most people heard first..... the great Miles Davis. I suspect the version that Caron used as a source. Nothing in common with the Caron version other than the melody. Ron Carter, Wayne Shorter, Tony Williams and Herbie Hancock. Less immediate, less superficially entertainig (less of a wow factor) but, for my money, deeper.
But no criticism of Caron; he's a great player.

[Marvin]

Isn't this the guy Nige has...an aversion to?

Perhaps someone should distract him with a Scott Thunes thread

[lowdown]

You can pick up 'Le Band' on Amazon and the others sites.
And its a great album with stunning playing all round.




Garry

[Blademan_98]

[quote name='lowdown' post='1361120' date='Sep 3 2011, 05:35 PM']You can pick up 'Le Band' on Amazon and the others sites.
And its a great album with stunning playing all round.

Garry[/quote]

[url="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Band-Alain-Caron/dp/B000026UDR"]Sadly not available at the moment[/url]

[lowdown]

[quote name='Blademan_98' post='1361152' date='Sep 3 2011, 06:14 PM'][url="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Band-Alain-Caron/dp/B000026UDR"]Sadly not available at the moment[/url][/quote]

CD baby - if you don't mind MP3.

[url="http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/alaincaron2"]CD baby[/url]


Garry

[urb]

This is the live version - and I agree about Alain, he's a monster but his extreme technique does get a little wearing after a while - but he's insanely musical as well - the only other minus points he gets here is for 'extreme pony-tailing' - seriously great player though

[Rich]

I love this guy's playing. I saw him with Mike Stern's quartet a few years back; his was some of the finest fretless playing I have ever seen or heard. Tasteful, accurate, and with a fabulous sense of melody. One of his solos was so melodic in fact that the tune of it actually got stuck in my head for a couple of days. How often does that happen with a [i]bass solo[/i]?
Ah well, I'm sure somebody will be along in a bit to tell us what a pile of toss slap is.

[clarkpegasus4001]

I rather like these with Alain Caron. The first is the band Uzeb. I'd never heard of Uzeb until recently The second is at a bass workshop........

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOqiHcmkfmI"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOqiHcmkfmI[/url]

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H68JtEvnwsk"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H68JtEvnwsk[/url]

[Chris2112]

I love Uzeb but I never found Caron's solo stuff very interesting. It wasn't a lack of technical wizardry, more a lack of interesting melodies and atmosphere.

This Uzeb song is fantastic although the bass solo goes on a little bit. Just listen to the bass playing before the solo, it is quite incredible fretless work.