Alain Caron (bassist)

Alain Caron ( born 1955 in Saint- Eloi, Quebec, Canada ) is an influential bassist in fusion and jazz music.

Biography

Alain Caron's career began at the age of 11 years, especially when he discovered his love of music, to jazz. In the early 70s, Caron worked on many projects as a studio musician and played in all the jazz clubs in and around Montreal. Correspondence courses helped the self-taught with the necessary foundations to study a summer semester at Berklee College of Music in Boston. In a short time, Alain Caron established as an outstanding and professional bassist, and musicians such as David Kikovsky, Tom Harrell, Sal Nistico, Frank Tiberi, Jerry Bergonzi and Bob Moses asked for the cooperation of.

In 1977, he joined the Michel Cusson Group, in which he met like-minded musicians who shared his understanding of jazz with him. In the early 1980s the band to fusion band UZEB formed. Soon, the band achieved high status and has been awarded by various magazines and committees Awards.

Caron soon had the reputation of being a master of his craft and was regarded as a virtuoso, especially in games of 6 -string bass guitars. It was not surprising that he soon taught at music schools in Los Angeles, Paris, Tokyo, London, Rome, Amsterdam and Frankfurt. After the dissolution of UZEB was created in 1992 the first of his five solo albums " Alain Caron - Le Band". There were a few tours with the trio of Mike Stern in Europe, USA and Canada, as well as with the trio Caron - Ecay - Lockwood in Europe, USA, Korea and China. In the years that produced Alain Caron another 3 albums, one of which was voted the " Bass Player" magazine as one of the best of the decade. Although his latest album underlines Caron's skill, but raises it above all his power as a songwriter and orchestrator forth.

Play

Alain Caron is considered one of the finest bass players in the slap technique. Particularly noteworthy is the fact that he uses this technique on 6- string bass. But Caron also stands out for his exceptional skills in playing fretless bass and the double bass.

Awards

Discography

Solo albums

Uzeb

Other projects

Music DVD

  • 2006-5 Live
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