Bass Player: Alain Caron

Alain Caron is best known for his many years as a member of Uzeb (Quebec Fusion supergroup), but also for having released many solo albums.

He has recorded and toured with jazz greats including Oliver Jones, Lorraine Desmarais, Mike Stern, Frank Gambale, Bireli Lagrene,  Didier Lockwood, Tiger Okoshi, Billy Cobham and Horacio “El Negro” Hernandez.

Winner of several awards, including 11 Félix, Gemini and the Oscar-Peterson Award twice, the first one in 1991 with Uzeb for his contribution to Canadian jazz and the second one in 2013 for his solo work. Alain Caron was voted best bassist eight consecutive years by JAZZ REPORT MAGAZINE.

In 2007, the ‘’Université du Québec’’ under the auspices of the ‘’Université du Québec’’ in Rimouski, gave him an honorary doctorate.

In July 2018, he was honoured to receive the Order of Canada, the highest civilian honor awarded in Canada!

The transcription is a bit of a mash-up in that some of it is accurate whilst others are ‘approximations of the kinds of grooves he plays on this section’. The form appears accurate but there are sections where it could be interpreted as 5:4.alternating 4:4 and 6:4 bars and other sections where it alternates 9:8 and 11:8. It is difficult to tell. If you intend to spend a long time on these tunes, let us know if you disagree about the time signatures. The tune is ‘Right After 4’ from the Caron’s 2013 album, ‘Multiple Faces