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Daniel Cano: Social Music
by Roger Farbey
Interviewed by Bryant Gumbel for NBC's the 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 ...
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