CAL TJADER - Tjader Plays Mambo (1956-1994) RM / FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

Having finished his tenure with George Shearing in 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 selected for this album. Many of the selections are standards retrofitted with percolating Latin rhythms, cut and shaped to fit the old three-minute limit of 45 or 78 rpm singles. Tjader's crystalline vibes are teamed with a San Francisco Latin percussion section that lays down the grooves crisply and succinctly, with an occasional emulation of the more laid-back Shearing Latin sound ("East of the Sun"). Elsewhere, Cal experiments with a hot four-man trumpet section on four of the tracks, the best of which is a rhumba version of "Fascinating Rhythm." The earliest Tjader-led recording of "Guarachi Guaro" (later known as "Soul Sauce") is also included here. These seminal tracks helped launch the Cal Tjader Latin jazz style, and they still sound fresher than many other such historical landmarks. by Richard S. Ginell
Tracklist :
1     Yesterdays 3:24
Otto Harbach / Jerome Kern
2     Out of Nowhere 3:04
Johnny Green / Edward Heyman
3     Fascinating Rhythm 2:47
George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin
4     Guarachi Guaro 3:01
Dizzy Gillespie / Chano Pozo
5     The Lady Is a Tramp 2:54
Lorenz Hart / Richard Rodgers
6     It Ain't Necessarily So 2:06
George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin
7     Have You Met Miss Jones? 3:05
Lorenz Hart / Richard Rodgers
8     For Heaven's Sake 2:57
Elise Bretton / Sherman Edwards / Don Meyer / Donald Meyer / Sherman Edwards & Donald Meyer
9     Mambo Macumba 2:22
Cal Tjader
10     East of the Sun (And West of the Moon) 3:05
Brooks Bowman
11     Bei Mir Bist du Schön 3:08
Sammy Cahn / Saul Chaplin / Jacob Jacobs / Sholom Secunda
12     I Concentrate on You 1:59
Cole Porter
Credits :
Bass – Carlos Duran
Congas – Edgar Rosales (faixas: 1,3,4,6,8,9,11,12), Luis Miranda (faixas: 2, 5, 7, 10)
Maracas – Edgar Rosales
Piano, Claves – Manuel Duran
Remastered By – Phil De Lancie
Timbales, Cowbell [Cencero], Congas – Bayardo Velardi
Trumpet – Al Porcino (faixas: 3, 6, 9, 12), Charlie Walp (faixas: 3, 6, 9, 12), Dick Collins (faixas: 3, 6, 9, 12), John Howell (faixas: 3, 6, 9, 12)
Vibraphone, Cowbell [Cencero] – Cal Tjader