Larry Carlton
Larry Carlton was born in Torrance, California, United States on March 2nd, 1948 and is the Guitarist. At the age of 76, Larry Carlton biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, songs, and networth are available.
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Larry Eugene Carlton (born March 2, 1948) is an American guitarist who started his career as a studio musician in the 1970s and 1980s for bands such as Steely Dan and Joni Mitchell.
He has appeared on hundreds of recordings, for television and films, as well as on more than 100 gold albums.
He has been a member of the jazz fusion group The Crusaders and smooth jazz band Fourplay, as well as a long career as a producer in the jazz world.
Personal life
In 1987, Carlton married contemporary Christian music artist Michele Pillar; the pair divorced in 2013. Travis Carlton, a bass player from Katie Carlton, is the father of bass player Travis Carlton.
Music career
Carlton was born in Torrance, California, United States, and at the age of six began guitar lessons. His interest in jazz came from hearing guitarist Joe Pass on the radio, after which he moved on to jazz guitarists Barney Kessel and Wes Montgomery, and blues guitarist B.B. King. He went to junior college and Long Beach State College while playing professionally at clubs in Los Angeles.
During the 1970s, he found steady work as a studio musician on electric and acoustic guitar in a variety of genres: pop, jazz pop, rock, rhythm and blues, soul and country. Carlton appeared in hundreds of recording sessions with Steely Dan, Joni Mitchell, Linda Ronstadt, Michael Jackson, Quincy Jones, Bobby Bland, Sammy Davis, Jr., Paulinho Da Costa, Charly García, the Fifth Dimension, Herb Alpert, Christopher Cross, Dolly Parton, Andy Williams, and the Partridge Family. Carlton performed on Mike Post's 1981 "Theme from Hill Street Blues", which won Grammys for 'Best Instrumental Composition' and for 'Best Pop Instrumental Performance'. In 1982, he appeared on The Nightfly by Donald Fagen, lead singer for Steely Dan.
His guitar work on Steely Dan's "Kid Charlemagne" from their 1976 LP The Royal Scam was ranked No. 80 on a list of the best guitar songs by Rolling Stone magazine.
Carlton recorded his debut solo album, With a Little Help from My Friends, in 1968. In the mid-1970s he built a home studio and called it Room 335 after the Gibson ES-335, an electric guitar he often played. He has recorded most of his albums at Room 335. In 1988, with his solo career in ascent, he was shot in the throat by a teenager outside Room 335 and suffered nerve and vocal cord damage, which delayed completion of the album he was working on at the time, On Solid Ground. His left arm was paralyzed and for six months he was unable to play more than a few notes.
Carlton produced six albums from 1978 to 1984. His version of "Sleepwalk" by Santo Farina climbed the pop and adult contemporary charts. From 1985 to 1990, he did various solo projects, including the live album Last Nite.
Carlton was commissioned to compose music for the King of Thailand, Bhumibol Adulyadej, in honor of the king's birthday. He recorded The Jazz King (Sony BMG, 2008) with a jazz orchestra that included Tom Scott, Nathan East, and Earl Klugh.
Awards and honors
- Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance, "Theme from Hill Street Blues", 1981
- Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance, "Minute by Minute", 1987
- Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Album, No Substitutions: Live in Osaka, 2001
- Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Album, Take Your Pick, 2010