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Jonathan Horsley

“I was just a new guy, probably number nine on the list”: Larry Carlton on his nerve-shredding debut session with Quincy Jones – and the time he was called to play guitar on a Michael Jackson smash-hit

Larry Carlton wears an orange shirt and takes a solo on a cherry burst semi-hollow live in Japan.

We all know Larry Carlton as one of the great masters of the Gibson ES-335, the session ace, the jazz guitar maestro, the studio player who graced albums by Joni Mitchell and Steely Dan, Joan Baez and the Four Tops, too.

But once upon a time Carlton was a young buck without much of a reputation to trade on. So when the call comes in from Quincy Jones that he was to come in for a session, that was officially a big deal.

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