Larry Carlton "The Very Best Of Larry Carlton"

Alexander Gelfand writes in the liner notes about "The Very Best Of Larry Carlton", "Larry Carlton has masterfully blended pop, blues, and jazz in a way that combines the best of all three. A consummate session player, Carton has appeared on thousands of recordings, his playing has graced more than 100 gold albums, and he has worked with everyone from Sammy Davis, Jr. and Quincy Jones to John Lennon. It's hard to say what's most impressive about these tracks: Carlton's playing, his arrangements, or his tunes. It may be said of Carlton, as these eleven tracks demonstrate, that he manages to combine the accessibility of pop with the profundity of the blues and the improvisational genius of jazz."