Double Bass Chuck Domanico (on a Clare Fisher recording.)

Don Kasper

Don Kasper

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The late Chuck Domanico from a 1969 recording - with Larry Bunker on drums.
Sounds very (extremely?) swingin' to me - In Tune and In Time...and beautifully recorded.
(TMI - I shared a stand with him on a TV show (orchestral) recording date in the early 90's - I just kept my mouth shut and made sure I did not besmirch my trousers.)
It's a shame some of these West Coast studio musicians labored in relative obscurity.
IMFO, of course.
Thanks.
 
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I worked in a band with the great Tom Rainer for 2 years and he had so many wonderful things to say about Chuck.
He was great on electric as well.
If I remember what I read many years ago, he used to go to the London House in Chicago as a teenager to hear the Oscar Peterson Trio. It was there that he became friends with Ray Brown an early influence on his playing. Chuck was indeed one of the very best.
 
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I heard Mr. Domanico at Donte's around 1970. The Tonight Show band would play there Sunday nights to blow off a little steam. To hear him live in such a casual situation was a special treat. He had that sound and technique that those great LA studio guys had at that time. The fact that the guys were there for fun was demonstrated by the fact that I remember the bari player had a stack of shot glasses in front of him that was several inches high-great times.:)
 
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As a guy who typically never spends much time on much music with the great upright masters, I was COMPLETELY ignorant of Mr. Domanico until I picked up a copy of Pet Benatar's TRUE LOVE album from 1991, a tribute to jump blues and swing with him in the rhythm section, and the Roomful of Blues horns. a wonderful album, and it didn't take very long to hear from the engine room and wonder 'WHO IZZAT????'

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Here's Pat and Neil covering BBK's 'Paying the Cost to Be the Boss', with Mr. D. walking around underneath, you hear him in the start of the bridge particularly around 1:45. Cool as the other side of the pillow !



Plus, just listen to him OWN the title track, 'True Love':


And again, an illustration of the difference in singers and vocalists: Real singers have the instrument and the head and heart to sing almost anything and sell it, and these things are several planets away from 'Hit Me' or Pat's usual play list, but listen how well she inhabits this music.
 
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