Cano

Pianist Eddie Cano spent most of his career connecting the dots between jazz and Latin styles. He found an appreciative audience for a series of albums under his own name released in the '50s and '60s by labels such as Atco, Reprise, and RCA, his following similar to that of vibraphonist Cal Tjader and bandleader Les Baxter. Cano also drew on dance crazes such as the cha cha and the Watusi to promote his efforts. His family was rich musically, Cano's father a bass guitarist, his grandfather a member of the Mexico City Symphony. Cano studied bass with his grandfather and private teachers, also studied piano and trombone, spent two years in the Army beginning in 1945, and then began hitting stages in a group led by Miguelito Valdés.

This French-Canadian group is from the Northern-Ontario province where almost half the population is francophone. CANO stands for Cooperative Artistes du Nouvel Ontario and they were based in the city of Sudbury. Formed as far back as 71, and from an ideal semi-hippy-pastoral commune and developing into theater, poetry, writers, and a whole bunch of artisans/craftsmen and a 320 acres Buffalo ranch. This commune attracted people from all over Northern Ontario, Quebec, Acadians from Eastern Canada. One of the branches became the musical group, and recorded in late 75 their debut album after being together for over three years.
Their music exemplifies best the Northern Canadian Pioneering spirit, and lyrically, the songs often make reference to the harsh condition they and their ancestor endured…

Eddie Cano & His Quintet - Brought Back Live From P. J.'s (1967) {2014 Japan Rare Groove Funk Best Collection 1000 UCCU-90067}
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Jazz / Soul Jazz / Latin Jazz / Jazz Funk / Piano

Reissue with the latest remastering. Stunning stuff – and one of the best-ever Latin soul albums of all time! Despite the fact that Eddie Cano's earlier albums are more in a Latin easy mode, this late 60's side for Dunhill is totally smoking – and probably his greatest album ever! Forgive the superlatives, but we're totally serious on this one – as the set's a firey batch of Latin instrumentals, with a slammin' boogaloo groove all the way through – filled with mad percussion, jazzy piano riffs, and a non-stop groove that's totally great. The set was recorded live at PJ's nightclub, and it's a non-stop Latin Soul party that includes massive originals like "Slip Slip", "Brown & Blue", "Miro Como Es", and "Don't Ever Change" – plus smoking covers of "El Pito" and "Louie Louie". The set screams with excitement, and is as great as the album is rare!

Sebastián Albero - Obra para Teclado I: 15 Sonatas (Manuscrito de Venecia I) - Pablo Cano (1999) {Tañidos SRD-221}
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© 1999 Several Records / Tañidos | SRD-221
Classical / Baroque / Spanish / Harpsichord

Sebastián Albero (1722-1757) is rightly regarded as one of the great composers of the 18th century Spanish key, comparing him without hesitation with Antonio Soler and with the same Doménico Scarlatti. Today the figure of Albero is almost inevitable in any eighteenth-century Hispanic harpsichordist program. These thirty sonatas respond to the monothematic bipartite sonata model. Its ornamentation, modulations and chromaticism bring them closer to the aesthetics of the gallant style, the "Empfindsamkeit".