Spanish bassist / composer Carles Benavent

From discogs:

Spanish bass player, born March 1, 1954 in Barcelona.

Benavent's greatest contribution to music is to have given a major role to bass guitar in flamenco music with the Paco De Lucia Sextet in the 1980's. He's played too with Miles Davis, Chick Corea and El Camarón De La Isla. At 13 he founded the blues trio Crac (2) with Salvador Font (drums) and Emili Baleriola (guitar). In 1969 the three of them joined Enric Herrera to refound Máquina. In 1975 he founded Música Urbana with Joan Albert Amargos (piano, clarinet), Salvador Font and Lluis Cabanach (guitar).He has also played with a lot of Spanish jazz-rock musicians, including Kitflus, Tito Duarte, and Jorge Pardo.

Based on these solo albums it's obvious he contributed quite a bit to the Musica Urbana group, which is btw my favourite progressive fusion group out of Spain.  The hallmark of his style is the shocking chord changes under elaborately florid flamenco-like melodies.  From the first ST album, the track called Full of Clarinets and Mandolins sounds the most like a MU composition:

From the Dos album, Romantica:

Notice that in the 1991 album he plays with keyboardist Amargos and violinist Didier Lockwood, who was featured here before I think to completion or almost.

If there's anyone who hasn't heard the 3 Musica Urbana albums, I strongly urge them to seek them out asap, and kick them in the butt too (to boot) for not having done so earlier.

Included are albums Carles Benavent, Dos Copas, Peaches with Salt, and the collaboration with Lockwood called Colors.