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Cal Tjader: The Best of the Concord Years

Read "The Best of the Concord Years" reviewed by Charlie B. Dahan


The Best of the Concord Years celebrates the acclaimed composer, bandleader and vibraphonist Cal Tjader’s last four years, 1979 through 1982. Tjader combined Latin, be bop and cool West Coast themes into an inspiring and influential blend of some of the best modern recordings of jazz. This double disc package opens with two ...

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Cal Tjader: The Best of the Concord Years

Read "The Best of the Concord Years" reviewed by John Kelman


Vibraphonist/percussionist/bandleader Cal Tjader said it right when he claimed “I am not an innovator. I am not a pathfinder. I am a participator.” While he never pushed the envelope of Afro-Cuban music, he did go a long way in popularizing it. With albums like La Onda Va Bien winning a Grammy award, the humble Tjader managed ...

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Cal Tjader: Cuban Fantasy

Read "Cuban Fantasy" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki


George Shearing's bands with percussionists Willie Bobo, Armando Peraza, and Mongo Santamaria also featured Cal Tjader. After his time with Shearing, Tjader employed his drums, timbales, percussion and vibes as a longstanding pillar of the San Francisco jazz scene. Bobo and Santamaria would later realign with Tjader in some of these bands. So did Vince Guaraldi, ...

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Latin Concert

Label: Fantasy Jazz
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. Viva Cepeda! 2. Mood For Milt 3. The Continental 4. Lucero 5.

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Concerts In the Sun

Label: Fantasy Jazz
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. Love For Sale 2. Goodbye 3. Raccoon Straits 4. Walkin' With Wally 5. My Romance 6. Sigmund Stern Groove 7. Cubano Chant 8. Afro Blue 9. Tumbao 10. Day In, Day Out.

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Cal Tjader: Cuban Fantasy

Read "Cuban Fantasy" reviewed by Russell Moon


The brand new Cuban Fantasy is an album of previously unreleased material Cal Tjader recorded in concert in San Francisco over two nights in June, 1977. Tjader's band had the same instrumental makeup as his 1969 Plugs In band – vibes, electric piano, electric bass, trap drums, conga drums – with the addition of an electric ...

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Cal Tjader: Latin Concert

Read "Latin Concert" reviewed by Javier AQ Ortiz


Quick and to the Point : Classic. In hindsight, it is rather easy to understand why this 1958 Cal Tjader group was his best ever. The groove among them is a model of economy, good taste, and simple-yet-profound depth. It sure shows in “The Continental,” with its expertly and tastily executed dynamics converging on Vince Guaraldi’s ...

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Cal Tjader: Concerts In the Sun

Read "Concerts In the Sun" reviewed by David Rickert


Concerts in the Sun languished in the vaults for 42 years, but it's now finally available on CD. The recording finds Cal Tjader in a state of transition between the West Coast cool jazz he helmed with Dave Brubeck and a full-blown commitment to integrating Afro-Cuban rhythms into jazz. Culled from two concerts, one in Honolulu ...

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Plays Harold Arlen and West Side Story

Label: Fantasy Jazz
Released: 2002
Track listing: 1. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea 2. Ill Wind (You're Blowing Me No Good) 3. When the Sun Comes Out 4. Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe 5. I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues 6. Come Rain or Come Shine 7. Over the Rainbow 8. Out of This World 9. Last Night When We Were Young 10. Man That Got Away 11. Blues in the Night 12. Prologue/The Jet Song 13. Something's Coming 14. Maria Interlude 15. Maria 16. Tonight 17. America 18. Cool 19. One Hand, One Heart 20. I Feel Pretty/Somewhere.

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Our Blues

Label: Fantasy Jazz
Released: 2002
Track listing: S.S. Groove; Goodbye; Moment in Madrid; Love For Sale; Then I'll be Tired of You; Theme For Duke; Cuban Fantasy; Medley: Summertime/ Bess, You Is My Woman Now/ Strawberry Woman; When Lights Are Low; Our Blues; That's All; And Baby Makes Three; Medley: Lover Man/ Willow Weep For Me/ 'Round Midnight; Line For Lyons.


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