GaryAlan
Well-Known Member
UMG has posted a lengthy article of Joe Osborn:
Excerpt:
"The great musician is said to have played on over 200 top 40 hits,
including ‘Bridge Over Troubled Water,’ ‘Close To You’ and ‘MacArthur Park."
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"Richard and Karen Carpenter turned up to accompany a trumpeter who was auditioning.
The bassist was the first to record the duo, on his home four-track equipment, and he helped them to develop their harmony interplay, going on to play on all their hits."“I didn’t know what to do about it,” Osborn told broadcaster Eddie Winters in 2015, of his “discovery” of the Carpenters. “But we talked, and found out Richard had some songs that he had written, didn’t have any way to record them, and so I offered the use of the studio to come and do that. But they had already been playing, as the Richard Carpenter Jazz Trio. Karen was a wonderful jazz drummer, even at that age, and Richard had studied classical music since he was a baby. So they were accomplished musicians at that point.” "In 1996, Richard Carpenter was asked about the impressive bass sound on the Carpenters’ recordings. “That’s Joe Osborn,” he said. “I just wrote ‘fill’…I’m big on bass."
More:
www.udiscovermusic.com/news/wrecking-crews-joe-osborn-bassist-carpenters-glen-campbell-countless-others-dies-81/
Excerpt:
"The great musician is said to have played on over 200 top 40 hits,
including ‘Bridge Over Troubled Water,’ ‘Close To You’ and ‘MacArthur Park."
----
"Richard and Karen Carpenter turned up to accompany a trumpeter who was auditioning.
The bassist was the first to record the duo, on his home four-track equipment, and he helped them to develop their harmony interplay, going on to play on all their hits."“I didn’t know what to do about it,” Osborn told broadcaster Eddie Winters in 2015, of his “discovery” of the Carpenters. “But we talked, and found out Richard had some songs that he had written, didn’t have any way to record them, and so I offered the use of the studio to come and do that. But they had already been playing, as the Richard Carpenter Jazz Trio. Karen was a wonderful jazz drummer, even at that age, and Richard had studied classical music since he was a baby. So they were accomplished musicians at that point.” "In 1996, Richard Carpenter was asked about the impressive bass sound on the Carpenters’ recordings. “That’s Joe Osborn,” he said. “I just wrote ‘fill’…I’m big on bass."
More:
www.udiscovermusic.com/news/wrecking-crews-joe-osborn-bassist-carpenters-glen-campbell-countless-others-dies-81/