Artist: Cal Tjader
Genre(s):
Jazz
Soundtrack
Folk
Other
Discography:
Solar Heat
Year: 2005
Tracks: 10
Cal Tjader Plays Harold Arlen/West Side Story
Year: 2002
Tracks: 20
Several Shades Of Jade / Breeze From The East
Year: 1997
Tracks: 22
Talkin' Verve: Roots of Acid Jazz
Year: 1996
Tracks: 16
Jazz 'Round Midnight
Year: 1996
Tracks: 16
Mambo With Tjader
Year: 1995
Tracks: 12
Descarga
Year: 1995
Tracks: 16
Amazonas
Year: 1995
Tracks: 9
Black Orchid
Year: 1993
Tracks: 21
Latin Kick
Year: 1991
Tracks: 11
Gozame Pero Ya (Both Sides of the Coin) CD1
Year: 1980
Tracks: 7
Cal Tjader Plugs In
Year: 1970
Tracks: 8
Soul Bird: Whiffenpoof
Year: 1965
Tracks: 12
Cal Tjader Plays, Mary Stallings Sings
Year: 1961
Tracks: 14
Stan Getz With Cal Tjader
Year: 1958
Tracks: 7
Verve Jazz Masters 39
Year:
Tracks: 16
The Shining Sea (Both Sides of the Coin) CD2
Year:
Tracks: 8
Cal Tjader was doubtlessly the almost celebrated non-Latino leader of Latin jazz bands, an extraordinary eminence. From the fifties until his end, he was much the stop man between the worlds of Latin malarky and mainstream bop; his calorie-free, rhythmic, joyous vibraphone manner could comfortably embrace both styles. His numerous recordings for Fantasy and Verve and longstanding presence in the San Francisco Bay Area finally had a profound influence upon Carlos Santana, and so Latin rock. He as well played drums and bongos, the latter to the highest degree notably on the George Shearing Quintet's puckishly coroneted "Blame Your Troubles in Drums," and would occasionally sit in on forte-piano as substantially.
Tjader studied music and education Department at San Francisco State College before hook up with bloke Bay Area occupier Dave Brubeck as the drummer in the Brubeck Trio from 1949 to 1951. He then worked with Alvino Rey, lED his own group, and in 1953, united George Shearing's then hugely popular quintette as a vibraphonist and percussionist. It was in Shearing's ring that Tjader's love matter with Latin music began, ignited by Shearing's bassist Al McKibbon, nurtured by contact lens with Willie Bobo, Mongo Santamaria, and Armando Peraza, and galvanized by the '50s mambo fad. When he left hand Shearing the undermentioned year, Tjader right away formed his possess band that emphasized the Latin element yet too played mainstream malarkey. Bobo and Santamaria eventually joined Tjader's ring as sidemen, and Vince Guaraldi served for a patch as pianist and subscriber to the band's songbook ("Ginza," "Thought of You, MJQ"). Tjader recorded a long series of mostly Latin wind albums for Fantasy from the mid-'50s through the early '60s, switching in 1961 to Verve, where under Creed Taylor's breastplate he expanded his stylistic pallet and was teamed with artists like Lalo Schifrin, Anita O'Day, Kenny Burrell, and Donald Byrd. Along the way, Tjader managed to grudge a minor run into in 1965 with "Soul Sauce," a reworking of Dizzy Gillespie/Chano Pozo's "Guacha Guaro," which Tjader had previously cut for Fantasy. Tjader returned to Fantasy in the seventies, then in 1979 moved over to the new Concord Picante label, where he remained until his demise.
