For the former major league baseball player, see Chuck Rainey (baseball).
Chuck Rainey
Rainey at Detroit Bass Festival in 2013.
Background information
Birth name
Charles Walter Rainey III
Born
(1940-06-17) June 17, 1940 (age 83) Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.
Genres
Jazz fusion
R&B
rock
soul
Occupation(s)
Musician
Instrument(s)
Bass guitar
Website
https://chuckrainey.com/
Musical artist
Charles Walter Rainey III (born June 17, 1940) is an American bass guitarist who has performed and recorded with many well-known acts, including Aretha Franklin, Steely Dan, and Quincy Jones.[1] Rainey is credited for playing bass on more than 1,000 albums,[2] and is one of the most recorded bass players in the history of recorded music.[3][4]
Although much of his work was as a session player, Rainey recorded a solo album, The ChuckRainey Coalition, in 1969. Other solo albums were Born Again...
and Dave Appell, drummers Gary Chester and Buddy Saltzman, bassists ChuckRainey and Joey Macho, and keyboard player Ron Frangipane. The sound engineer...
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members. Cavaliere's organ pedals (and later, session bassists, like ChuckRainey, in studio recordings) filled the bass parts. In August 1965, manager...
began to study the lines of other great bassists such as James Jamerson, ChuckRainey, and Bob Babbitt. When Ray Parker Jr. joined Marvin Gaye's band, Watts...
reggae genres. The musicians that played on the album were Leon Russell, ChuckRainey, Andy Newmark, Jose Feliciano, the Tower of Power and Charles Larkey...
Princess. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-137-10250-8. "Music Legend ChuckRainey to Lecture, Perform at Tennessee State University". US Fed News Service...
but at the time there were only Walsh and Vitale on these sessions. ChuckRainey did the first bass tracks on the album but these were soon replaced by...
America. He then recorded a new album with session work by Steve Gadd and ChuckRainey, and a new, young bassist from Scotland, Rob Hartley. Hartley also toured...
possibly to be her best work by members of her last band (Herbie Hancock, ChuckRainey, and Alphonse Mouzon), was shelved and remained unreleased for 33 years...
Grolnick – Fender Rhodes electric piano Paul Griffin – Hohner Clavinet ChuckRainey – bass Bernard Purdie – drums Donald Fagen, Michael McDonald, Venetta...
Bill Doggett, Jazz Legends: Lester Bowie, Bobby Watson, Rock Legends: ChuckRainey, Will Calhoun 2000: Various Artists – Public Domain (Purchase) – track...
Palladino, Paul McCartney, Bob Babbitt, Nathan Watts, Will Lee, Geddy Lee, ChuckRainey, Marcus Miller, Mike Mills, Phil Chen, John Entwistle, Michael League...
Dan album to feature Becker on guitar. "Once I met [session musician] ChuckRainey", he explained, "I felt there really was no need for me to be bringing...
the singer working with top songwriters and session players, including ChuckRainey, Cornell Dupree and Bernard Purdie, as well as future Toto founder members...
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