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Last Nite (Larry Carlton album)

live album by Larry Carlton

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 6, 2025
Entity authorityQ6494547 ↗
Source-derived summary

Last Nite is a live album by Larry Carlton, released in 1986. Recorded at the Baked Potato in North Hollywood, California, Carlton is supported by keyboardist Terry Trotter, bassist Abraham Laboriel, drummer John Robinson, and percussionist Alex Acuña.

Technical note: Carlton, who is known as "Mr. 335" because of his preference of the Gibson ES-335 semi-hollow body guitar in his early career, used a custom-made Valley Arts Strat solid-body guitar with active EMG pick-ups for these recordings, which accounts for the distinctly different tone when compared to earlier Carlton recordings.

Editorial summary

“Last Nite (Larry Carlton album)” enters the record as live album by Larry Carlton. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Last, Nite and Larry can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1986—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1986. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Last, Nite and Larry.
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“Last Nite (Larry Carlton album)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Last, Nite and Larry provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 6, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q6494547. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1986.

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This entry incorporates text from “Last Nite (Larry Carlton album)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.