Larry Carlton - At My Father's Place, New York 1978 (Remastered, Live On Broadcasting) '2025

Tracks list

	Tracklist:

1. Intro (Live) (02:17)
2. Room 335 (Live) (11:43)
3. Blues (Live) (05:58)
4. Don't Give It Up (Live) (07:10)
5. Rio Samba (Live) (11:58)
6. Only Yesterday / I'm Home (Live) (05:46)
7. Nite Crawler (Live) (07:42)
8. Put It Where You Want It (Live) (08:41)
9. Tight Squeeze (Live) (07:32)


 moreA native of Torrance, California, Carlton began taking guitar lessons
when he was six. His first professional gig was at a supper club in 1962. After
hearing Joe Pass on the radio, he was inspired to play jazz and blues. Wes
Montgomery and Barney Kessel became important influences soon after he
discovered the jazz guitar stylings of Pass. B.B. King and other blues
guitarists had an impact on Carlton's style as well. He honed his guitar-playing
skills in the clubs and studios of greater Los Angeles while he attended a local
junior college and Long Beach State College for a year until the Vietnam War
ended. Carlton toured with the Fifth Dimension in 1968 and began doing studio
sessions in 1970. His early session work included studio dates with pop
musicians like Vikki Carr, Andy Williams, and the Partridge Family.

In 1971, he was asked to join the Crusaders shortly after they'd decided to drop
the word "Jazz" from their name, and he remained with the group until 1976. In
between tours with the Crusaders, he also did studio session work for hundreds
of recordings in every genre. But it was while he with the Crusaders that he
developed his signature, highly rhythmic, often bluesy style. Carlton delivered
his self-titled debut for Warner Bros. in 1978, shortly after he was recognized
for his groundbreaking guitar playing on Steely Dan's Royal Scam album. (Carlton
contributed the memorable guitar solo on "Kid Charlemagne.'')

He released four more albums for Warner Bros., Strikes Twice (1980), Sleepwalk
(1981), Eight Times Up (1982), and the Grammy-nominated Friends (1983), before
parting ways with the label. Also during this period, he branched out into
writing for TV and films, composing music for Against All Odds, Who's the Boss,
and the theme for Hill Street Blues. The latter won a Grammy Award in 1981 for
Best Pop Instrumental Performance. He continued studio session work and toured
in between, emerging again in 1986 on MCA Records with an all-acoustic album,
Discovery, which contained an instrumental remake of Michael McDonald's hit
"Minute by Minute." The single won a Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental
Performance in 1987. Carlton's live album Last Nite, released in 1987, got him a
Grammy nomination for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance.

While working on his next album for MCA, On Solid Ground, Carlton was the victim
of random gun violence, and was shot in the throat by gun-wielding juveniles
outside Room 335, his private studio near Burbank, California. The bullet
shattered his vocal cords and caused significant nerve trauma, but through
intensive therapy and a positive frame of mind, Carlton completed work on On
Solid Ground in 1989. He formed Helping Innocent People (HIP), a nonprofit group
to aid victims of random gun violence.

Despite the tragedy foisted on him in the late '80s after he was shot, with a
long period of hospitalization and rehabilitation, Carlton continued his active
recording and performing schedule over the next two decades, beginning with a
number of albums during the '90s on the GRP label: 1992's Kid Gloves; 1993's
Renegade Gentleman; 1995's Larry & Lee (with Lee Ritenour); and 1996's The Gift.
Carlton also released the 1995 holiday collection Christmas at My House on MCA.
And in 1997 he replaced Lee Ritenour in the popular contemporary jazz outfit
Fourplay, first appearing on the group's 4 album in 1998.

The 2000s found Carlton as active as ever, recording live and in the studio as
both leader and collaborator for a variety of labels. Two albums on Warner Bros.
began the decade, Fingerprints -- including guest appearances by Michael
McDonald, Vince Gill, Kirk Whalum, and Vinnie Colaiuta -- in 2000, and Deep Into
It in 2001. A popular concert draw in Japan, Carlton could be heard as a
collaborator on two live recordings from that island country during the decade,
Live in Osaka (with Steve Lukather), issued in 2001 on the Favored Nations
label, and Live in Tokyo (with Robben Ford) on 335 Records in 2007.

Meanwhile, his albums as a leader continued, with Sapphire Blue and Fire Wire
released by Bluebird/RCA in 2004 and 2005, respectively, and The Jazz King --
with Carlton leading an all-star band performing music he composed on commission
to celebrate the 80th birthday and ascension to the throne of Thailand’s
King Bhumibol Adulyadej -- issued by Sony BMG in 2008. In 2009 Carlton appeared
as guest guitarist on selected dates during Steely Dan's U.S. summer tour. Take
Your Pick (with Tak Matsumoto) appeared in 2010.

In 2011, he paid homage to Philly soul pioneers Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff with
Larry Carlton Plays the Sound of Philadelphia. Also that year, he played on
vocalist Michele Pillar's holiday album I Hear Angels Calling. Four Hands & a
Heart, Vol. 1 appeared in 2012, followed by the holiday-themed Four Hands & a
Heart Christmas in 2014. Over the next several years, Carlton remained busy
touring, and he recorded with Paul Brown, Fourplay, and the SWR Big Band. In
2018, he joined actor/comedian/musician Harry Shearer on the Derek Smalls album
Smalls Change (Meditations Upon Ageing). © Richard Skelly



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