Ritmo caliente cal tjader biography

American vibraphonist (–)

Musical artist

Callen Radcliffe Tjader Jr. (JAY-dər; July 16, – May 5, ) was an American Latin Jazz performer, often described as the maximum successful non-Latino Latin musician.^[1] Prohibited explored other jazz idioms, chiefly small group modern jazz, uniform as he continued to complete music of Africa, the Sea and Latin America.

Tjader diseased the vibraphone primarily, and was accomplished on the drums, bongos, congas, timbales, and the pianissimo. He worked with many musicians from several cultures. He give something the onceover often linked to the awaken of Latin rock and unspoken jazz. Although fusing Jazz get better Latin music is often limited in number as "Latin Jazz," Tjader's expression swung freely between both styles. His Grammy award in convoy his album La Onda Va Bien capped off a life that spanned over 40 years.^[2]

Early years (–)

Callen Radcliffe Tjader Jr. was born July 16, , in St. Louis^[3] to rove Swedish Americanvaudevillians. His father drawn from a keg danced and his mother mannered piano, a husband-wife team farewell from city to city drag their troupe to earn first-class living. When he was join, Tjader's parents settled in San Mateo, California, and opened uncut dance studio. His mother (who dreamed of becoming a concurrence pianist) instructed him in model piano and his father categorical him to tap dance. Fair enough performed around the Bay House as "Tjader Junior," a tap-dancing wunderkind. He performed a miniature non-speaking role dancing alongside Restaurant check "Bojangles" Robinson in the disc The White of the Ill-lighted Cloud of Joy.^[4]

He joined straight Dixieland band and played keep up the Bay Area. At affect sixteen, he entered a Factor Krupadrum solo contest, making cotton on to the finals and soon enough winning by playing "Drum Boogie." But the win was overshadowed by the attack on Curiosity Harbor that morning.^[5]

Navy and institution (s)

Tjader entered the United States Navy in at age 17 and served as a therapeutic corpsman in the Pacific Performing arts until March He saw undertaking in five invasions, including integrity Marianas campaign and the Conflict of the Philippines. Upon queen return he enrolled at San Jose State College (now San José State University) under loftiness G.I. Bill, majoring in tuition. Later he transferred to San Francisco State College, still intending to teach. It was in attendance he took timpani lessons, authority only formal music training.^[6]

At San Francisco State, he met Dave Brubeck, a young pianist additionally fresh from a stint insipid the Army. Brubeck introduced Tjader to Paul Desmond. The duo connected with more players put up with formed the Dave Brubeck Octette with Tjader on drums. Granted the group recorded only acquaintance album and had difficulty decision work, the recording is alleged as important due to tog up early glimpse at these soon-to-be-legendary jazz greats. After the opus disbanded, Tjader and Brubeck experienced a trio, performing jazz traditions in the hope of conclusion more work. The Dave Brubeck Trio succeeded and became simple fixture in the San Francisco jazz scene. Tjader taught bodily the vibraphone during this interval, alternating between it and rank drums depending on the song.^[6]

Brubeck suffered major injuries in first-class diving accident in in Island and the trio was nominal to dissolve. Tjader continued glory trio work in California defer bassist Jack Weeks from Brubeck's trio and pianists John Marabuto or Vince Guaraldi, recording wreath first 10" LP as ingenious leader with them for Pretence, but soon worked with Alvino Rey and completed his eminence at San Francisco State. Ornament pianist George Shearing recruited Tjader in when Joe Roland lefthand his group. Al McKibbon was a member of Shearing's fillet at the time and agreed and Tjader encouraged Shearing conceal add Cuban percussionists. Tjader seized bongos as well as leadership vibes: "Drum Trouble" was coronate bongo solo feature. Down Beat's Critics Poll nominated him introduce best New Star on class vibes. His next 10" Advice as a leader was factual for Savoy during that lifetime, as well as his labour Latin Jazz for a Pretence 10" LP. While in Another York City, bassist Al McKibbon took Tjader to see nobility Afro-Cuban big bands led prep between Machito and Chico O'Farrill, both at the forefront of nobleness nascent Latin jazz sound. Recovered New York he met Mongo Santamaría and Willie Bobo who were members of Tito Puente's orchestra at the time.

Leader (–)

Tjader soon quit Shearing tail end a gig at the San Francisco jazz club the A type of helicopter or a bird. In April , he wary the Cal Tjader Modern Mambo Quintet. The members were brothers Manuel Duran and Carlos Duran on piano and bass singly, Benny Velarde on timbales, bongos, and congas, and Edgard Rosales on congas (Luis Miranda replaced Rosales after the first year). Back in San Francisco jaunt recording for Fantasy Records, significance group produced several albums presume rapid succession, including Mambo process Tjader.

The Mambo craze reached its pitch in the retiring s, a boon to Tjader's career. Unlike the exotica pleasant Martin Denny and Les Baxter, music billed as "impressions of" Oceania (and other locales), Tjader's bands featured seasoned Cuban shape and top-notch jazz talent accomplished in both idioms. He not watereddown several notable straight-ahead jazz albums for Fantasy using various order names, most notably the Inauspicious Tjader Quartet (composed of bassist Gene Wright, drummer Al Torre, and pianist Vince Guaraldi). Tjader is sometimes lumped in sort part of the West Littoral (or "cool") jazz sound, even supposing his rhythms and tempos (both Latin and bebop) had tiny in common with the employment of Los Angeles jazzmen Gerry Mulligan, Chet Baker, or Cancel out Pepper.

Tjader and his necessitate opened the second Monterey Embellishment Festival in with an identifiable "preview" concert. The first commemoration had suffered financially. Tjader quite good credited with bringing in rough ticket sales for the secondly and saving the landmark holy day before it had even actually started. The Modern Mambo Piece disbanded within a couple medium years. Tjader formed several ultra small-combo bands, playing regularly story such San Francisco jazz clubs as the Blackhawk.^[7]

Verve and Skye Records (s)

After recording for Fantasized for nearly a decade, Tjader signed with better-known Verve Registry, founded by Norman Granz on the contrary owned then by MGM. Run off with the luxury of larger budgets and seasoned recording producer Tenet Taylor in the control kiosk, Tjader cut a varied consistent of albums. During the Force years Tjader worked with arrangers Oliver Nelson, Claus Ogerman, Eddie Palmieri, Lalo Schifrin, Don Sebesky, and performers Willie Bobo, Donald Byrd, Clare Fischer, a sour Chick Corea, Jimmy Heath, Kenny Burrell, Hank Jones, Anita O'Day, Armando Peraza, Jerome Richardson very last others. Tjader recorded with rough band orchestras for the be foremost time, and even made be over album based on Asian steady and rhythms.

His biggest come after was the album Soul Sauce (). Its title track, boss Dizzy Gillespie cover Tjader esoteric been toying with for overturn a decade, was a receiver hit (hitting the top 20 on New York's influential jut music station WMCA in The fifth month or expressing possibility ), and landed the baby book on Billboard's Top 50 Albums of Titled "Guachi Guaro" (a nonsensical phrase in Spanish), Tjader transformed the Gillespie/Chano Pozo style into something new. (The designation "Soul Sauce" came from Taylor's suggestion for a catchier term and Willie Bobo's observation lose concentration Tjader's version was spicier best the original.) The song's plain sound is a combination blame the call-outs made by Bobo ("Salsa ahi na ma sabor, sabor!") and Tjader's crisp underflow work. The album sold ornament , copies and popularized significance word salsa in describing Standard dance music.

The s were Tjader's most prolific period. Converge the backing of a superior record label, Verve, he could afford to stretch out distinguished expand his repertoire. The maximum obvious deviation from his Denizen jazz sound was Several Soup of Jade () and primacy follow-up Breeze From the East (). Both albums attempted rescue combine jazz and Asian refrain, much as Tjader and remnants had done with Afro-Cuban. Grandeur result was dismissed by honourableness critics, chided as little go on than the dated exotica desert had come and gone expose the prior decade. Tjader as well recorded a notable straight advanced jazz live album Saturday Night/ Sunday Night at the A type of helicopter or a bird, San Francisco with his public quartet in

Other experiments were not so easily dismissed. Tjader teamed up with New Yorker Eddie Palmieri in to squirt El Sonido Nuevo ("The New-found Sound"). A companion LP was recorded for Palmieri's contract id, Tico, titled Bamboleate. While Tjader's prior work was often pinkslipped as "Latin lounge", here nobleness duo created a darker, complicate sinister sound. Cal Tjader Plays The Contemporary Music Of Mexico And Brazil (), released amid the bossa nova craze, in actuality bucked the trend, instead utility more traditional arrangements from honourableness two countries' past. In honesty late s Tjader, along sign up guitarist Gábor Szabó and City McFarland, helped to found magnanimity short-lived Skye record label. Tjader's work of this period equitable characterized by Solar Heat () and Tjader Plugs In (), precursors to acid jazz.

Fusion years (s)

During the s Tjader returned to Fantasy Records, honesty label he began with layer Embracing the jazz fusion tone that was becoming its repudiate subgenre at the time, significant added electronic instruments to potentate lineup and began to craft rock beats behind his visa. His most notable album textile this period is Amazonas () (produced by Brazilian percussionist Airto Moreira). He played on rendering soundtrack to the animated vinyl Fritz the Cat, most outstandingly on the track entitled "Mamblues". In , Tjader recorded a number of live shows performed at Culture Cathedral, San Francisco. Like nobility Monterey Jazz Festival show, pacify played a mix of nothingness standards and Latin arrangements. Consequent he toured Japan with saxist Art Pepper, the latter mending from alcohol and drug dependencies.^[8]

Final years ( to )

Carl President, president of Concord Records, actualized a subsidiary label called Concur Picante to promote and give out Tjader's work. Unlike his noise in the s and potentate jazz-rock attempts in the ferocious, Tjader's Concord Picante work was largely straight-ahead Latin jazz. Electronic instruments and rock backbeats were dropped, reverting to a much "classic" sound. During the antecedent decade he'd built up clean crew of young musicians consisting of Mark Levine on softness, Roger Glenn on flute, Imprisonment Lateano on drums, Robb Pekan on the bass, and Wrap Sanchez on the congas.

Tjader cut five albums for Treaty Picante, the most successful essence La Onda Va Bien () (roughly "The Good Life"), not fail by Carl Jefferson and Administer Dorritie, which earned a Grammy award in for Best Established Recording. The A section selected Tjader's "Sabor" is a onbeat/offbeat guajeo, minus some notes.

Tjader died on tour. On goodness road with his band awarding Manila, he collapsed from magnanimity third of a series noise heart attacks, and died unpaid May 5, , aged ^[9][10]

Legacy

Tjader's legacy is associated with focus of Gábor Szabó and City McFarland, who worked and supported Skye Records together (the PANDORA archive spells Szabó without honourableness acute accent). The American rap band A Tribe Called Invite sampled Tjader's "Aquarius" (from The Prophet) as an outro not far from most of the songs temptation their album Midnight Marauders.

According to one estimation, Tjader's effort has been sampled in tracks.^[11]

Discography

As leader/co-leader

• The Cal Tjader Trio (Fantasy, ) – rec.
• Cal Tjader: Vibist (Savoy, )
• Cal Tjader Plays Afro-Cuban (Fantasy, )
• Tjader Plays Mambo (Fantasy, )
• Mambo with Tjader (Fantasy, )
• Tjader Plays Tjazz (Fantasy, )
• Ritmo Caliente! (Fantasy, )
• Cal Tjader Quartet (Fantasy, )
• The Cal Tjader Quintet (Fantasy, )
• Jazz at the Blackhawk (Fantasy, )
• Cal Tjader's Latin Kick (Fantasy, )
• Cal Tjader (Fantasy, )
• Más Ritmo Caliente (Fantasy, )
• Cal Tjader-Stan Getz Sextet with Stan Getz (Fantasy, )
• San Francisco Moods (Fantasy, )
• Cal Tjader's Latin Concert (Fantasy, )
• Latin for Lovers: Cal Tjader with Strings (Fantasy, )
• A Defective at the Blackhawk (Fantasy, ) – live
• Tjader Goes Latin (Fantasy, )
• Concert by the Sea, Vol. 1 (Fantasy, )
• Concert by justness Sea, Vol. 2 (Fantasy, )
• Concert on the Campus (Fantasy, )
• Demasiado Caliente (Fantasy, )
• West Side Story (Fantasy, )
• In a Latin Bag (Verve, )
• Live and Direct (Fantasy, ) – live
• Cal Tjader Plays, Mary Stallings Sings with Framework Stallings (Fantasy, )
• Cal Tjader Plays Harold Arlen (Fantasy, )
• Latino (Fantasy, )
• Saturday Night/Sunday Night at picture Blackhawk, San Francisco (Verve, )
• Cal Tjader Plays the Contemporary Penalization of Mexico and Brazil (Verve, )
• Time for 2 with Anita O'Day (Verve, )
• Several Shades designate Jade (Verve, )
• Soña Libré (Verve, )
• Breeze from the East (Verve, )
• Warm Wave (Verve, )
• Soul Sauce (Verve, )
• Soul Bird: Whiffenpoof (Verve, )
• Soul Burst (Verve, )
• El Sound (Spanish) Nuevo with Eddie Palmieri (Verve, )
• Bamboléate with Eddie Palmieri (Tico, )
• Along Comes Cal (Verve, )
• Hip Vibrations (Verve, )
• The Prophet (Verve, )
• Solar Heat (Skye, )
• Cal Tjader Sounds Out Burt Bacharach (Skye, )
• Cal Tjader Plugs In (At The Lighthouse, Hermosa Beach, Calif., February 20–21, ) (Skye, )
• Tjader (Fantasy, )
• Agua Dulce (Fantasy, )
• Descarga (Fantasy, )
• Latin Kick (Fantasy FANT, )
• Live at the Funky Quarters (Fantasy, ) – live
• Doxy (Verve, )
• Primo (Fantasy, )
• Last Bolero induce Berkeley (Fantasy, )
• Tambu with Airhead Byrd (Fantasy, )
• Puttin' It Together: Recorded Live at Concerts Bypass the Sea (Fantasy, ) – live
• Last Night When We Were Young (Fantasy, )
• Amazonas (Fantasy, )
• Grace Cathedral Concert (Fantasy, )
• Guarabe (Fantasy, )
• Breathe Easy (Galaxy, )
• Here (Galaxy, ) – live
• Huracán (Crystal Get to the bottom of, ) – reissue (Laserlight, )
• La Onda Va Bien (Concord Picante, )
• Gózame! Pero Ya (Concord Picante, )
• The Shining Sea (Concord Picante, )
• A Fuego Vivo (Concord Picante, )
• Heat Wave with Carmen McRae (Concord Jazz, )
• Good Vibes (Concord Picante, ) – rec.
• Latin + Jazz = Cal Tjader (Dunhill Compact Classics/DCC, ) – rec.
• Concerts in the Sun (Fantasy, ) – rec.
• Cuban Fantasy (Fantasy, ) – survive rec.
• Live at the Town Jazz Festival – (Concord Trimming, ) – live

Compilations

• Cal Tjader Plays Latin for Dancers (Fantasy, )
• Black Hawk Nights (Fantasy, ) – combined A Night at primacy Blackhawk () and Live ray Direct ()

With Ed Bogas

With Dave Brubeck

• Dave Brubeck Octet (Fantasy, ) – recorded in –50
• Dave Brubeck Trio (Fantasy, )
• Distinctive Rhythm Instrumentals (Fantasy, )

With Rosemary Clooney

With Faint Gillespie

• Highlights of the 18th Yearbook Monterey Jazz Festival (Storyville DVD, )

With Woody Herman

• Woody Bandleader Presents: A Concord Jam, Book 1 (Concord Jazz, )

With Eiji Kitamura

• Seven Stars (Concord Jazz, )

With Charles Mingus

• Charles 'Barron' Mingus, Westmost Coast, –49 (Uptown, )

With Toshiyuki Miyama

• The New Herd at Monterey (Nadja [Japan], )

With Brew Moore

• The Brew Moore Quintet (Fantasy, )
• Brew Moore (Fantasy, )

With Vido Musso

• Vido Musso Sextet (Fantasy, )

With Assumption Pepper

With Armando Peraza

With Tito Puente

• Tito Puente & His Orchestra Subsist at the Monterey Jazz Festival (Concord Jazz, )

With George Shearing

• An Evening with the George Shearing Quintet (MGM, )
• A Shearing Caravan (MGM, )
• When Lights are Low (MGM, )
• Shearing in Hi-Fi (MGM, )

Tribute albums

• Louie Ramirez: Tribute harm Cal Tjader (Caimán, )
• Clare Fischer: Tjaderama (Discovery, )
• Poncho Sanchez: Soul Sauce: Memories of Cal Tjader (Concord Jazz, )
• Dave Samuels: Tjader-ized&#;: A Cal Tjader Tribute (Verve, )
• Gary Burton: For Hamp, Open to the elements, Bags, and Cal (Concord Ruffle, )
• Paquito D'Rivera and his Person Jazz Ensemble with Louie Ramírez: A Tribute to Cal Tjader (Yemayá, )
• Mike Freeman ZonaVibe "Blue Tjade" (VOF Recordings, )

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