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Stan Getz and Cal Tjader
In February 1954, Stan Getz and the George Shearing Quintet were booked on the same bill for a series of West Coast concerts produced by Gene Norman. On the bus trip from Portland to Seattle, Getz tried to kick his heroin habit. The tenor saxophonist intended to be clean before the likelihood of drawing jail time ...
Poncho is Head Honcho at Cape May Fest
Poncho Sanchez never fails to ignite his audience, and his Latin jazz band came out blazing as the Saturday night opening act/headliner at the semiannual Cape May Jazz Festival April 8-10. Sanchez, the hammer-handed conga player and leather-lunged lead singer for the eight-piece band, has a crackerjack three-horn front line as always, a pianist who doubles ...
Allen Smith RIP
From San Francisco comes word that trumpeter Allen Smith died last week at the age of 85. Smith's musical career got underway at the same time as those of his San Francisco State College classmates Paul Desmond and Cal Tjader. He worked with both in various bands and with other Bay Area jazz mainstays, including guitarist ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Cal Tjader
All About Jazz is celebrating Cal Tjader's birthday today! Cal TjaderCal Tjader vibes (1925 - 1982) Cal Tjader crafted one the sleekest and most distinctive sounds in Latin jazz. His cool, shimmering, jazz vibes, gliding fluidly atop fiery, hot Afro-Cuban rhythms... more Website | Photos | Articles Follow Cal ...
The Life and Music of Legendary Musician Cal Tjader - March 30th
The Life and Music of legendary musician Cal Tjader will be featured Tuesday, March 30th at 6:30 p.m. ET/PT on “Getting To Know You" hosted by Susan McCray on KSAV.org. Cal Tjader was undoubtedly the most famous non-latino leader of Latin Jazz bands, which is an extraordinary distinction. Before forming his own band, he had played ...
Mark Weinstein: Timbasa
by Woodrow Wilkins
First came the transition from trombonist to flutist. Then came the transition to Latin jazz. For Mark Weinstein, a confluence of worlds has become modus operandi. Brooklyn-born Weinstein's experience has included a fusion of post-bebop music with traditional Afro-Cuban drumming. As a trombonist, he worked with Chick Corea, Cal Tjader, Tito Puente, Maynard Ferguson, ...
Cal Tjader
by AAJ Italy Staff
Thirty years ago, your linen-gowned father stood in the dayroom of the VA hospital grabbing at the plastic identification bracelet marked Negro, shouting, ”I'm not! Take it off! I'm Other!” (Martin Espada) Quella cultura latinoamericana che oggi diamo come scontata parte del melting pot americano ha a lungo tardato ad affermarsi negli Stati Uniti, salvo che ...
John Zorn: O'o
by Stuart Broomer
When John Zorn released The Dreamers (Tzadik) in 2008, it might have seemed like a temporary aberration: Zorn the master of the arbitrary (Cobra), the cutting edge (Torture Garden) and the anarchic (too many projects to mention) had embraced the genres of lounge and 1950s exotica to produce music that, perhaps ironically, approached easy listening, building ...
Wayne Wallace Latin Jazz Quintet: Bien Bien!
by Woodrow Wilkins
"Well, well" is one English translation for Bien Bein!, by the Wayne Wallace Latin Jazz Quintet. “Good, good" is another. Either is appropriate for this collection of nine songs. Wallace, a trombonist, composer and arranger, has been named “Talent Deserving Wider Recognition" in the Down Beat Critics' Poll, and has shared the stage with ...
Indianapolis Jazz Festival: Day 1, September 26, 2009
by AAJ Staff
Day 1 | Day 2 The Indianapolis Jazz FestivalIndianapolis, IndianaSept. 26, 2009With two outdoor stages at The Lawn at White River State Park, the heavy clouds blowing across the sky brought just the right amount of the tension to the mix for the final weekend of the Indy Jazz Festival. The ...
