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Carol Kaye Autobiography
$39.50
Her long-awaited 502 page Autobiography book with 53 photos, endorsed by fine famous, James Gavin, Chuck Granata, Steve Todoroff, and Earl Palmer’s daughter Shelly Palmer.
Her life and professional musician/educator start, playing jazz guitar gigs, her complete LOG of work-calls, business deals and more!
NOTE: Because of weight & packaging, this can be purchased only as a separate order and a separate shipping surcharge will apply for all orders outside the U.S., thank-you.
NEW! “STUDIO MUSICIAN: CAROL KAYE, 60s #1 Bassist, Guitarist”
Her long-awaited 502 page full-sized 8-1/2 x 11 Autobiography book with 53 photos is endorsed by fine famous, James Gavin, Chuck Granata, Steve Todoroff, and also by Earl Palmer’s daughter Shelly Palmer.
Her life and professional musician/educator start, playing jazz guitar gigs – big-band touring 1954-55, bebop jazz in late 1950s L.A., Hollywood Studio Work hits on guitar 1957, No. 1 call bass inventing lines 1963 into 1970s on records, movie scores, and TV-show films, working with other Top Pro’s, stories about the hits, the stars of the Music Recording World into the 1950s-60s-1970s and beyond.
Her complete LOG of work-calls, her awarded Gwyn Publishing Inc. business – her famous books/courses teaching bass players worldwide her invented music lines. Also has the business deals, and later comeback in Studio work, writing and playing more live Jazz! Insider stories, 53 photos.
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Weight: 3lb Dimensions: 13 × 11 × 1.5 in
If you’ve listened to the radio or watched TV since 1958, you've heard Carol Kaye play.
Carol was one of the core group of anonymous studio musicians who lent her unique styles of studio Guitar and Electric Bass playing to many of the hits recorded by such popular artists like the Beach Boys, Ray Charles, The Righteous Bros., Johnny Mathis, Nancy Sinatra and several others.
She also has numerous movie and TV credits including MASH, Mission Impossible, Brady Bunch, and more.
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A new compilation featuring some of the best of Carol Kaye Bass performances collection:
1. Bass Catch (w/Ray Brown, Howard Roberts, Joe Sample, John Guerin)
2. Moke & Poke
3. Burning Spear (w/Joe Pass)
4. Better Days (w/Joe Pass)
And more: including Free Sample (Joe Sample), and Slick Cat (Joe Pass – Paul Humphrey)
11 great tracks which include a TV-show film out-take – Wonder Woman: Boogaloo, Rodrigo classical, funk, pop, jazz, all styles with great sounds direct from the copyrighted master recordings of 1960s and 70s.
NEW! Guitar Sightreading Studies, beginning with Neck Chart, music symbols, easy diagrams, and Chordal Tone Studies with graduated easy quick techniques Studio Musicians use – nothing like this anywhere!
How stacked notes are easily read, aiming for the beats in rhythms reading, fingering exercises, getting your fingerings and shifts together while enjoying training your creative ear — lifetime reading skills you deserve for well-paying gigs. Give up un-usable tab – you’ll enjoy working on Classical, Pop, Standards and Jazz Studies specifically designed so you can achieve experienced lifetime sightreading skills, this system works! Great for self-help, great for teachers too! 25 pgs.
NOTE: Because of weight & packaging, this can be purchased only as a separate order and a separate shipping surcharge will apply for all orders outside the U.S., thank-you.
NEW! “STUDIO MUSICIAN: CAROL KAYE, 60s #1 Bassist, Guitarist”
Her long-awaited 502 page full-sized 8-1/2 x 11 Autobiography book with 53 photos is endorsed by fine famous, James Gavin, Chuck Granata, Steve Todoroff, and also by Earl Palmer’s daughter Shelly Palmer.
Her life and professional musician/educator start, playing jazz guitar gigs – big-band touring 1954-55, bebop jazz in late 1950s L.A., Hollywood Studio Work hits on guitar 1957, No. 1 call bass inventing lines 1963 into 1970s on records, movie scores, and TV-show films, working with other Top Pro’s, stories about the hits, the stars of the Music Recording World into the 1950s-60s-1970s and beyond.
Her complete LOG of work-calls, her awarded Gwyn Publishing Inc. business – her famous books/courses teaching bass players worldwide her invented music lines. Also has the business deals, and later comeback in Studio work, writing and playing more live Jazz! Insider stories, 53 photos.
Additional information
Weight: 3lb Dimensions: 13 × 11 × 1.5 in
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