About Me
Paco BenÃtez, bajista gaditano, ha tocado con la Tonky Blues Band, Javier Andreu, Cañones y Mantequilla, Barahunda, King Wolf y un sinfÃn de grupos.Actualmente trabaja como músico freelance, docente. Su disco de jazz-fusion, “ArtesanÃa†(Jaberwocky, 2003), se añade en su discografÃa a su trabajo como sesionista para Javier Bergia, Barahúnda, Lobo y Mota, entre otros.
Paco Benitez is a bass player/songwriter living in Madrid, Spain. Born in Cadiz and raised in Miami, he started playing the electric bass in 1983.In Spain, he has played for more than a hundred artists in the jazz, blues, pop and rock circuits and recorded several albums and film scores as a sideman.He is also a music educator and was for a time a contributing writer for Spain..s bass magazine "Bajista", where he interviewed players like Carol Kaye, Nathan East, Billy Sheehan, Richard Bona, Jerry Jemmott, Israel Lopez "Cachao" and Fernando Saunders, among others.
Paco also teaches an annual blues seminar in Madrid and is at the present time getting a lot of headaches making his second solo album.
"ArtesanÃa" is up to date his first record as a leader with ten original compositions arranged and produced by Paco.
The musicians that have performed in "ArtesanÃa" are players from Madrid's musical scene: Javier Paxariño, Pedro Cabredo, Lorenzo Solano, Isi Fernandez (Saxes), Robin Cooper (trumpet and flugelhorn), Javier Escribano (Trombone), Moises Sanchez, Victor Alonso, Fernando GarcÃa (Keyboards), Juan Carlos Jimenez "el niño", Antonio Toledo, Jairo Zavala, Dabas Herrera, Richie Guinea (Guitars), Helena de Alfonso (vocals, Javier Palancar (accordion), Jaime Medina, Juan Carlos Arellano "El Ruso" (percussion) and Toni Jurado on drums
ENTREVISTA A PACO BENITEZ PUBLICADA EN LA REVISTA BAJISTA/PACO BENITEZ INTERVIEW (SPANISH)
CRITICA DE ARTESANIA EN TODAS LAS NOVEDADES
REVIEW/CRITICA DE ARTESANIA EN RAGAZZI MUSIC (german)
REVIEWS/CRITICAS DE ARTESANIA EN GUITARRISTA Y TODO PERCUSION
DESCARGAR CANCIONES DE I TUNES / DOWNLOAD SONGS FROM I TUNES
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Domingo Sanchez - Piano:
Amable RodrÃguez - Guitarra:
Paco Ibañez - Trompeta:
