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Cal Tjader
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
3.1405
Cal Tjader Album Rankings
1
This CD (which reissues all of the music from the two LPsConcert by the SeaandVol. 2) is the definitive early Cal Tjader album and one of the high points of his career.
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2
Having finished his tenure withGeorge Shearingin 1954, a thoroughly Latin-inoculated Cal Tjader took off on his own, recording several short slices of infectious Latin jazz, from which a dozen were se
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This CD has all of the music originally on the two LPsCal Tjader Goes LatinandThe Cal Tjader Quintet.
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4
Cal Tjader's era-defining mixture of Afro-Cuban rhythms and mainstream jazz solos undergoes a bit of a horizontal expansion in these 1956 sessions.
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5
Soul Sauceis one of the highlights from Tjader's catalog with its appealing mixture of mambo, samba, bolero, and boogaloo styles.
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6
Vibraphonist Cal Tjader recorded for Concord steadily during the last three years of his life. This 1998 CD sampler has a dozen selections taken from Tjader's six Concord dates.
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7
Vibraphonist Cal Tjader was quickly becoming one of the most important forces in Latin-jazz when he recorded the infectious music on this CD reissue.
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8
Cal Tjader's Brazilian explorations continue and actually deepen with this release, as he joins forces with a host of progressive young Brazilian musicians, all overseen by producer Airto Moreira.
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9
Descarga is a merger of two albums recorded near the beginning of the Seventies -- the fascinating studio session Agua Dulce and the self-explanatory Live at the Funky Quarters.
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10
Still trying to stay in tune with the Seventies, Cal Tjader joins forces with another refugee from another time, guitarist Charlie Byrd, for an album of contemporary Brazilian-flavored jazz.
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11
Fantasy Records is to be commended for re-releasing so many of their classic Cal Tjader albums in the budget-priced two-for-one CD format, even if Sentimental Moods features one of their odder pairin
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12
In a change of pace, for this recording vibraphonist Cal Tjader recorded cool-toned bop without a Latin rhythm section.
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13
This single CD reissues all of the music from vibraphonist Cal Tjader's Guarabe LP plus five of the six tracks from Here.
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15
In the late '50s, Cal Tjader and his bands played lengthy engagements at the Black Hawk jazz club in San Francisco.
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16
In the '60s, R&B was a much larger market than jazz.
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22
It was only fitting that vibraphonist Cal Tjader launched the Concord Picante label with this release for Tjader did a great deal to popularize Latin-jazz.
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24
Vibraphonist Cal Tjader was one of the major forces in Latin-jazz from the mid-'50s until his death in 1982.
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25
The best single-disc overview of Cal Tjader's Verve years, this collection actually makes the vibraphonist's time spent at the label seem more rewarding than it actually was.
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28
In apparent response to the sampling of old Latin jazz records by hip-hop artists, Verve raided its Cal Tjader archive to come up with this fiercely grooving collection drawn from nine of his Verve a
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29
For one of his final albums, vibraphonist Cal Tjader leads a septet that includes keyboardist Mark Levine, future bandleader Poncho Sanchez on congas and guest altoist-flutist Gary Foster.
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31
Unlike Vince Guaraldi's Grace Cathedral concert, vibraphonist Cal Tjader's was not a religious event.
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32
Carmen McRae steals honors on vocals. Sparkling vocals and vibes.
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35
This CD reissue brings back one of vibraphonist Cal Tjader's final recordings.
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37
Mary Stallings was just 22 at the time this album, her first, was cut in 1961. Fortunately, she was teamed up with a group of top professionals led by vibist Cal Tjader.
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39
By the mid '60s, vibraphonist Cal Tjader was recording regularly for Verve in a wide variety of settings but with pretty consistent success.
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42
Verve's Ultimate series unveils a new idea in the hackneyed concept of greatest-hits collections: instead of compilation producers, these albums feature tracks selected by figures who either worked w
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51
Vibraphonist Cal Tjader is in typically fine form on this live set from 1968.
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52
Latin jazz collectors note: the title emphatically is Jazz at the Blackhawk, and even the most determined listener will not find an iota of Cal Tjader's explorations of Latin rhythms here.
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53
Vibraphonist Cal Tjader's 1950s recordings for Fantasy did a great deal to popularize Latin jazz and solidify its innovations.
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56
This CD brings back one of Cal Tjader's best late-period recordings and finds the vibraphonist adapting his 1950s Latin jazz concept to the 1970s without losing any vitality.
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