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{{For|the former major league baseball player|Chuck Rainey (baseball)}}
{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Chuck Rainey
| image = Chuck Rainey (cropped).jpg
| caption = Rainey at Detroit Bass Festival in 2013.
| birth_name = Charles Walter Rainey III
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== Early life ==
Rainey was born in [[Cleveland, Ohio]], on June 17, 1940, and grew up in [[Youngstown, Ohio|Youngstown]]. His parents were both amateur pianists. He learned viola, piano, and trumpet as a child{{r|rnb}} and majored in brass instruments in college.{{r|anon}} He attended [[Lane College]] in [[Jackson, Tennessee]].{{r|news}} Rainey began playing bass guitar in the military.{{r|rnb}}
==Career ==
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In 2014, Rainey and drummer John Anthony Martinez<ref>{{cite web | title=The Tune of Success Live Comes to Dallas! | website=Dallas Weekly | date=June 6, 2016 | url=https://www.dallasweekly.com/articles/the-tune-of-success-live-comes-to-dallas/ | access-date=July 23, 2021}}</ref> cofounded Rhythm Intensive, which provides clinics, workshops, and master classes for aspiring rhythm section musicians.<ref>{{cite web| title=Rhythm Intensive | url=https://www.rhythmintensive.com/about/ | access-date=July 23, 2021 | website=Rhythm Intensives}}</ref> Rainey and Martinez also co-authored ''The Tune of Success: Unmask Your Genius''.{{r|anon}}
In an interview with Chris Jisi in April 2020, Rainey disclosed that he had retired as a bassist and turned his focus to writing his biography and working with Rhythm Intensive.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Bass Magazine Lockdown Check-In With Chuck Rainey|url=https://bassmagazine.com/artists/bass-magazine-lockdown-check-in-with-chuck-rainey|last=Jisi|first=Chris|website=Bass Magazine - The Future of Bass|date=9 April 2020 |language=en-us|access-date=May 22, 2020}}</ref>
A Rainey signature line of bass guitars are produced by [[Alvarez Guitars]] and Ken Smith Basses.{{r|tell}}
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* [[Ry Cooder]], ''[[The Slide Area]]'' (Warner Bros., 1982)
* [[Hank Crawford]], ''[[Mr. Blues Plays Lady Soul]]'' (Atlantic, 1969)
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* [[Fats Domino]], ''Fats Is Back'' (Reprise, 1968)
* [[Les Dudek]], ''[[Les Dudek (album)|Les Dudek]]'' (Columbia, 1976)
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* [[Roberta Flack]], ''[[Chapter Two (Roberta Flack album)|Chapter Two]]'' (Atlantic, 1970)
* Roberta Flack, ''[[Quiet Fire (Roberta Flack album)|Quiet Fire]]'' (Atlantic, 1971)
* [[The Free Design]], ''[[Heaven/Earth]]'' (Project, 1969)
* [[Hiroshi Fukumura]] with [[Sadao Watanabe (musician)|Sadao Watanabe]], ''Hunt Up Wind'' (Flying Disk, 1978)
* [[Marvin Gaye]], ''[[I Want You (Marvin Gaye album)|I Want You]]'' (Tamla, 1976)
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* [[Arlo Guthrie]], ''[[Last of the Brooklyn Cowboys]]'' (Reprise, 1973)
* [[Bobbye Hall]], ''Body Language for Lovers'' (20th Century, 1977)
* [[John Hall (New York politician)|John Hall]], ''[[John Hall (album)|John Hall]]'' (Asylum, 1978)
* [[John Handy]], ''[[Hard Work]]'' (ABC, 1976)
* [[Rufus Harley]], ''King/Queens'' (Atlantic, 1970)
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* [[Paul Humphrey]], ''Supermellow'' (Blue Thumb, 1973)
* [[Bobby Hutcherson]], ''[[Linger Lane]]'' (Blue Note, 1975)
* [[Paul Jabara]], ''[[Keeping Time]]'' (Casablanca, 1978)
* [[Ahmad Jamal]], ''One'' (20th Century Fox, 1978)
* [[Tom Jans]], ''The Eyes of an Only Child'' (CBS, 1975)
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* [[Sammy Johns]], ''[[Sammy Johns (album)|Sammy Johns]]'' (GRC, 1973)
* [[J. J. Johnson]] and [[Kai Winding]], ''[[Betwixt & Between]]'' (A&M, 1969)
* [[Rickie Lee Jones]], ''[[Pirates (Rickie Lee Jones album)|Pirates]]'' (Warner Bros., 1981)
* [[Tamiko Jones]], ''I'll Be Anything for You'' (A&M, 1968)
* [[Marc Jordan]], ''Mannequin'' (Warner Bros., 1978)
* [[Margie Joseph]], ''Margie Joseph'' (Atlantic, 1973)
* Margie Joseph, ''Sweet Surrender'' (Atlantic, 1974)
* [[Eric Kaz]], ''If You're Lonely'' (Atlantic, 1972)
* [[Robin Kenyatta]], ''Stompin' at the Savoy'' (Atlantic, 1974)
* [[Albert King]], ''Truckload of Lovin''' (Tomato, 1978)
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* [[Percy Mayfield]], ''Weakness Is a Thing Called Man'' (RCA Victor, 1970)
* Percy Mayfield, ''Blues and Then Some'' (RCA Victor, 1971)
* [[Letta Mbulu]], ''There's Music in the Air'' (A&M, 1976)
* [[Randy McAllister]], ''Grease, Grit, Dirt & Spit'' (JSP, 1998)
* Randy McAllister, ''Double Rectified Bust Head'' (JSP, 1999)
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* Don Sebesky, ''The Distant Galaxy'' (Verve, 1968)
* [[Marlena Shaw]], ''[[Who Is This Bitch, Anyway?]]'' (Blue Note, 1975)
* [[The Singers Unlimited]], ''Friends'' (Pausa, 1977)
* [[Johnny "Hammond" Smith]], ''Gears'' (Milestone, 1975)
* [[Lonnie Smith (organist)|Lonnie Smith]], ''[[Drives (Lonnie Smith album)|Drives]]'' (Blue Note, 1970)
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* [[Dusty Springfield]], ''[[It Begins Again]]'' (United Artists, 1978)
* [[Ringo Starr]], ''[[Ringo the 4th]]'' (Atlantic, 1977)
* [[The Supremes]], ''[[Mary, Scherrie & Susaye]]'' (Motown, 1976)
* [[Sylvers]], ''Something Special'' (Capitol, 1976)
* [[Syreeta Wright]], ''[[One to One (Syreeta album)|One to One]]'' (Tamla, 1977)▼
* [[Grady Tate]], ''Windmills of My Mind'' (Skye, 1968)
* [[Tavares (group)|Tavares]], ''[[Future Bound]]'' (Capitol, 1978)
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* [[Tata Vega]], ''Full Speed Ahead'' (Tamla, 1976)
* Tata Vega, ''Totally Tata'' (Tamla, 1977)
* [[Eddie Vinson|Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson]], ''[[You Can't Make Love Alone]]'' (Mega, 1971)
* [[David T. Walker]], ''On Love'' (A&M, 1976)
* [[Joe Walsh]], ''[[Barnstorm (album)|Barnstorm]]'' (ABC, 1972)
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* Leon Ware, ''[[Leon Ware (1982 album)|Leon Ware]]'' (Elektra, 1982)
* [[Tim Weisberg]], ''Dreamspeaker'' (A&M, 1973)
* [[Jerry Lynn Williams]], ''Jerry Williams'' (Spindizzy, 1972)
* [[Cris Williamson]], ''Cris Williamson'' (Ampex, 1971)
* [[Nancy Wilson (jazz singer)|Nancy Wilson]], ''This Mother's Daughter'' (Capitol, 1976)
* [[Jimmy Witherspoon]], ''Spoonful'' (Blue Note, 1975)
▲* [[Syreeta Wright]], ''[[One to One (Syreeta album)|One to One]]'' (Tamla, 1977)
* [[Miwa Yoshida]], ''Beauty and Harmony'' (Epic, 1995)
* [[Masayoshi Takanaka]], ''[[An Insatiable High]]'' (Kitty, 1977)
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[[Category:20th-century African-American musicians]]
[[Category:21st-century African-American
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