# Candido

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candido/546217>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 10, 2010, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candido/546217 "2010-07-10T14:20:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2010, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candido/546217/1 "2010-07-10T14:20:09Z")

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Although the thread title and this OP are focusing on one of the great Latin Percussionists, Candido Camero, I would love to see the thread develop wherever you want it to go with Latin Percussion as its main element.

Among the very first LP’s I bought as a teenager was the combined modern jazz stylings of Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers on one side and what may have been one of the first experiments with Afro-Cuban drumming as the main draw on the other. The album was called _Drum Suite_ and a good review of it is available at [Art Blakey Drum Suite.](http://www.musicbox-online.com/ab-drum.html)

The key percussionists were [Art Blakey,](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Blakey) [Sabu,](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabu_Martinez) and [Candido.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candido_Camero) An example from YouTube is [ART BLAKEY / Cubano Chant.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XOArv0tGK0)

A much more recent sample of Candido’s playing is at [Billy Taylor Trio featuring Candido - Mambo Inn](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtKBCil6qTk)

A bio of Candido is [here.](http://www.lpmusic.com/Pros_That_Play_LP/Players_Roster/camero.html)

Let’s see who all we can get mentioned and sampled here.

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**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2010, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candido/546217/2 "2010-07-10T20:45:11Z")

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I gave a “featuring Candido” CD (a circa 1960 recording, IIRC) to my godson for his third birthday years ago, and he loved it. Can’t go wrong with congas. I think one of his tunes was featured in the film _Dance with Me_.

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**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2010, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candido/546217/3 "2010-07-10T21:35:59Z")

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> [@JKellyMap](#):
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> I gave a “featuring Candido” CD (a circa 1960 recording, IIRC) to my godson for his third birthday years ago, and he loved it. Can’t go wrong with congas. I think one of his tunes was featured in the film _Dance with Me_.

Any idea which “Dance with Me” from this list it may be?

> **[Find - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/find/?s=tt&q=dance%20with%20me)**
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> IMDb's Find Results Page

I couldn’t find an IMDb listing for Candido Camero.

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**Author:** ![DonLogan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/51bf81/32.png) [@DonLogan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DonLogan)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2010, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candido/546217/4 "2010-07-10T22:07:23Z")

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Airto, because he played on a Flora Purim album that was in the collection of the first really hot chick I ever banged the living daylights out of in college. And looked like Che (Airto, not the chick).