Frank Canino’s first professional work was with the Sal Mosca/Warne Marsh Quartet at the Village Vanguard in 1979. He continued to work with that group as well as leading his own jazz quartet on regular tours of western Europe in the early 1980’s, appearing at the Northsea Jazz Festival, the…
I am a professional bassist and regular yoga practitioner ever since I turned 60 way back in the summer of 2015. In 2018-19 I traveled the country as a member of the “A Bronx Tale” orchestra and visited yoga studios in every city. From September 2019 until February 2020 I…
“Yoga is not about touching your toes, it’s about what you learn on the way down.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErX7jZEBJBg&t=298s These are recordings I've spent many hours on. Not at all perfect, but the intent of the project comes through. When the last Broadway production of HAIR was winding down, I had no plans so - I created this sequence for a new revue of '60's songs in which…
Well the Santa Monica yoga scene shut down. The neighborhood rebeled against our gathering in Pacific Palisades and hardly anyone was showing up in the dark at Gandara Park - and it was dipping below 60f. But I found that Red Diamond yoga had an excellent scene in what I…
Back in the 70’s and 80’s there was an elite group of studio musicians in NY. I was not a part of it. But at times I got close. No guitarist in town was more respected than Cornell Dupree and I became his bassist in 1987. We recorded this in…
One of my favorite sessions - composed and sung by my uber talented friend Timmy Cappello, best known for being Tina Turner’s hulk of a saxophonist during her 80’s hey day. He is a brilliantly creative person who plays pretty much any musical instrument at least very well but to…
This is a song I wrote about how much records meant to me when I was a kid. I had no idea how they were made and how they got the music to sound so good. I thought songs were created by some kind of divine right and of course…
Here's a song I whipped up one evening - one night I was talking with a friend and he said "if you want to talk about the blues - talk to me" .....hmmm.......song title
One evening after stalking the neighborhood in Riverside I started wondering if COVID 19 had caused rents to decline - and a few weeks later I indeed found myself living on Mullholland Drive at the top of Benedict Canyon in Beverly Hills. Crazy world - I couldn’t find a place…
I left the Beautiful tour for an open run of a new show called “Hit Her With The Skates” in Chicago. Written by my friends Christine Rea and her husband Rick Briskin, after 2 weeks of work I end up quarantined in the suburb of Riverside, Illinois. Designated a National…
Sometimes I feel that yoga classes are kind of like songs. It’s amazing how only 12 notes that you’ve heard countless times before can produce endless sonic variety and likewise classes and instructors each have their own feeling and unique effect even if you’ve done all the poses before. The…