- Source: Itzam Cano
Itzam Cano (born 1977 in Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican jazz double bassist.
He studied ethnomusicology at the Escuela Nacional de Música from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). He studied electric bass and contrabass and the development of improvisation, jazz theory, and harmony.
In late 2005, he joined free jazz ensemble Zero Point. In September 2006, Zero Point participated in the Japanese New Music Festival (Tatsuya Yoshida, Makoto Kawabata y Atsushi Tsuyama), at Multiforo Alicia in Mexico City. By 2007, Zero Point released its first digital album for Ayler Records.
He has worked with Elliot Levin, Marco Eneidi, Dennis, Stefan y Aarón Gonzales, Dave Dove, Shelley Hirsch, Scott Forrey, Milo Tamez, Tom Corona, Lawrence Williams, and Generación Espontánea.
Since 2004 he has performed at the Ollin Jazz Tlalpan Internacional, Festival de Improvisación Libre, Free Jazz y Noise "Cha'ak'ab Paaxil" (with sede in Mérida, Yucatán), Festival Internacional de las Americas in La Habana, Cúba and in festivals in cities like Puebla, Guadalajara, and Zacatecas.
He has been a member of the bands Antimateria, Zero Point, Claude Lawrence trío and has been part of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Puebla and the Orquesta de Percutoris from the Escuela Nacional de Música at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (ENM-UNAM).
Selected ensembles
Antimateria
Claude Lawrence Trío
Zero Point
Major collaborators
Remi Álvarez
Gabriel Lauber
Germán Bringas
Claude Lawrence
External links
Antimateria Official site Archived 2011-07-15 at the Wayback Machine
Article of September 18th, 2007 in Mexican newspaper El Reforma Archived 2011-07-15 at the Wayback Machine
Article of September 26th, 2005 in Mexican newspaper La Jornada
Article of November 3rd, 2007 at All About Jazz
Zero Point at Ayler Records