# CD review: Daniel Cano – Social Music 2019: Video, CD cover

- Link: https://jazzblues.eu/2019/06/18/daniel-cano-social-music-2019-video-cd-cover/
- Published: 2019-06-18T13:39:57+01:00
- Author: https://JazzBlues.EU

**Today show in 1982, Miles Davis wrily responded “I don’t like that word jazz …
I think social music … all the social melodies … out in [the] air … it’s not jazz
anymore … that’s the social music I’m talking about. You take what you want out 
and leave what you don’t like. **

You know, like food.” Thus Davis coined the phrase “social music” which consequently
inspired the title of Daniel Cano’s album. Following the serpentine intro to the
title track, bassist Dani Pozo briefly quotes from Miles Davis’ In A Silent Way (
Columbia, 1969), and Cano appropriately deploys wah-wah trumpet as a respectful 
nod to his hero.

On both “Trippy” and the quirkily titled “Hon, A Couch Has Fallen From The Sky” 
there are actually two trumpeters playing. On the first number composed by guest
trumpeter Chris Kase, both of the horn players solo. Kase, incidentally, is American
by birth but now lives in Madrid, whereas Cano is Spanish and now lives in the United
Kingdom. The second track is infused by elaborately rich harmonies evinced by the
two trumpeters. Wilfried Wilde’s stinging guitar solo interpolates the otherwise
sonorous mood and again both horns solo in succession.

The languorous “Pineapple Soul” is a laid-back affair punctuated by an octave pedal
infused bass guitar solo plus Cano’s ever-searching trumpet and Wilde’s overdriven
guitar outing. “Fly On The Wall” offers a restrained funkiness, primarily underpinned
by the labyrinthine bass guitar lines over which Jorge Castañeda solos on Fender
Rhodes and Cano deploys biting, urgent trumpet. “To Whom It May Concern” is a complex,
questing piece featuring Cano and Wilde, but in contrast the closer, “Westgate Groove,”
benefits from a pervasive Nucleus / Soft Machine-type riff that drives the number
along. Cano, who is supported here by a group of first class musicians, proves himself
a brilliant musician, dually gifted as sensitive, melodious trumpeter and an imaginative
and skillful composer.

**Tracklist:**

01. Trippy
 02. Hon, a Couch Has Fallen from the Sky 03. Social Music 04. Pineapple
Soul 05. Fly on the Wall 06. To Whom It May Concern 07. Westgate Groove

**Personnel:**

Daniel Cano: trumpet, flugelhorn;
 Chris Kase (1&2): trumpet; Wilfried Wilde: guitar;
Jorge Castañeda: piano, Fender Rhodes; Miguel Benito: drums; Dani Pozo: electric
bass.

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