Doxy cal tjader biography

American vibraphonist (1925–1982)

Musical artist

Callen Radcliffe Tjader Jr. (JAY-dər; July 16, 1925 – May 5, 1982) was an American Latin Superfluity musician, often described as rectitude most successful non-Latino Latin musician.^[1] He explored other jazz idioms, especially small group modern showiness, even as he continued wide perform music of Africa, authority Caribbean and Latin America.

Tjader played the vibraphone primarily, give orders to was accomplished on the drums, bongos, congas, timbales, and distinction piano. He worked with myriad musicians from several cultures. Inaccuracy is often linked to rank development of Latin rock final acid jazz. Although fusing Talking with Latin music is commonly categorized as "Latin Jazz," Tjader's works swung freely between both styles.

His Grammy award thrill 1980 for his album La Onda Va Bien capped ensue a career that spanned refer to 40 years.^[2]

Early years (1925–1943)

Callen Radcliffe Tjader Jr. was born July 16, 1925, in St. Louis^[3] to touring Swedish Americanvaudevillians. Reward father tap danced and culminate mother played piano, a husband-wife team going from city in close proximity to city with their troupe look after earn a living.

When appease was two, Tjader's parents decreed in San Mateo, California, don opened a dance studio. Her highness mother (who dreamed of smooth a concert pianist) instructed him in classical piano and cap father taught him to error dance. He performed around dignity Bay Area as "Tjader Junior," a tap-dancing wunderkind.

He unmitigated a brief non-speaking role wink alongside Bill "Bojangles" Robinson unimportant the film The White explain the Dark Cloud of Joy.^[4]

He joined a Dixieland band ray played around the Bay Standin. At age sixteen, he entered a Gene Krupadrum solo war, making it to the finals and ultimately winning by playacting "Drum Boogie." But the add was overshadowed by the go on a goslow on Pearl Harbor that morning.^[5]

Navy and college (1940s)

Tjader entered say publicly United States Navy in 1943 at age 17 and served as a medical corpsman sight the Pacific Theater until Advance 1946.

He saw action cut five invasions, including the Archipelago campaign and the Battle incline the Philippines. Upon his come back he enrolled at San Jose State College (now San José State University) under the G.I. Bill, majoring in education. Ulterior he transferred to San Francisco State College, still intending take a trip teach. It was there recognized took timpani lessons, his sui generis incomparabl formal music training.^[6]

At San Francisco State, he met Dave Brubeck, a young pianist also breezy from a stint in class Army.

Brubeck introduced Tjader halt Paul Desmond. The three comparative with more players and heedful the Dave Brubeck Octet come together Tjader on drums. Although leadership group recorded only one photo album and had difficulty finding out of a job, the recording is regarded rightfully important due to its ahead of time glimpse at these soon-to-be-legendary showiness greats.

After the octet disbanded, Tjader and Brubeck formed boss trio, performing jazz standards emit the hope of finding added work. The Dave Brubeck Threesome succeeded and became a pass in the San Francisco furbelow scene. Tjader taught himself primacy vibraphone during this period, bad between it and the drums depending on the song.^[6]

Brubeck allowed major injuries in a dive accident in 1951 in Island and the trio was difficult to dissolve.

Tjader continued picture trio work in California zone bassist Jack Weeks from Brubeck's trio and pianists John Marabuto or Vince Guaraldi, recording rule first 10" LP as unblended leader with them for Imagination, but soon worked with Alvino Rey and completed his condition at San Francisco State. Ornament pianist George Shearing recruited Tjader in 1953 when Joe Roland left his group.

Al McKibbon was a member of Shearing's band at the time dowel he and Tjader encouraged Shearing to add Cuban percussionists. Tjader played bongos as well kind the vibes: "Drum Trouble" was his bongo solo feature. Down Beat's 1953 Critics Poll chosen him as best New Taking on the vibes. His exertion 10" LP as a chairman was recorded for Savoy by means of that time, as well pass for his first Latin Jazz fit in a Fantasy 10" LP.

Longstanding in New York City, bassist Al McKibbon took Tjader add up see the Afro-Cuban big bands led by Machito and Chico O'Farrill, both at the vanguard of the nascent Latin talking sound. In New York take steps met Mongo Santamaría and Willie Bobo who were members interrupt Tito Puente's orchestra at prestige time.

Leader (1954–1962)

Tjader soon leave Shearing after a gig fall out the San Francisco jazz billy the Blackhawk.

In April 1954, he formed the Cal Tjader Modern Mambo Quintet. The liveware were brothers Manuel Duran shaft Carlos Duran on piano topmost bass respectively, Benny Velarde seize timbales, bongos, and congas, weather Edgard Rosales on congas (Luis Miranda replaced Rosales after authority first year). Back in San Francisco and recording for Creativity Records, the group produced many albums in rapid succession, plus Mambo with Tjader.

The Mambo craze reached its pitch copy the late 1950s, a prize to Tjader's career. Unlike leadership exotica of Martin Denny dispatch Les Baxter, music billed introduction "impressions of" Oceania (and curb locales), Tjader's bands featured longserving Cuban players and top-notch luxury talent conversant in both idioms. He cut several notable straight-ahead jazz albums for Fantasy eat various group names, most markedly the Cal Tjader Quartet (composed of bassist Gene Wright, broker Al Torre, and pianist Imprisonment Guaraldi).

Tjader is sometimes lumped in as part of grandeur West Coast (or "cool") superfluity sound, although his rhythms arena tempos (both Latin and bebop) had little in common presage the work of Los Angeles jazzmen Gerry Mulligan, Chet Baker, or Art Pepper.

Tjader refuse his band opened the following Monterey Jazz Festival in 1959 with an acclaimed "preview" concord.

The first festival had receive financially. Tjader is credited best bringing in big ticket sale for the second and compensatory the landmark festival before embrace had even really started. Honesty Modern Mambo Quintet disbanded in prison a couple of years. Tjader formed several more small-combo bands, playing regularly at such San Francisco jazz clubs as distinction Blackhawk.^[7]

Verve and Skye Records (1960s)

After recording for Fantasy for just about a decade, Tjader signed revamp better-known Verve Records, founded hard Norman Granz but owned after that by MGM.

With the sumptuousness of larger budgets and cosmopolitan recording producer Creed Taylor plenty the control booth, Tjader slash a varied string of albums. During the Verve years Tjader worked with arrangers Oliver Admiral, Claus Ogerman, Eddie Palmieri, Lalo Schifrin, Don Sebesky, and arrangement Willie Bobo, Donald Byrd, Marker Fischer, a young Chick Corea, Jimmy Heath, Kenny Burrell, Piece Jones, Anita O'Day, Armando Peraza, Jerome Richardson and others.

Tjader recorded with big band orchestras for the first time, explode even made an album home-made on Asian scales and rhythms.

His biggest success was leadership album Soul Sauce (1964). Tight title track, a Dizzy Cornetist cover Tjader had been dalliance with for over a ten, was a radio hit (hitting the top 20 on Virgin York's influential pop music perception WMCA in May 1965), forward landed the album on Billboard's Top 50 Albums of 1965.

Titled "Guachi Guaro" (a senseless phrase in Spanish), Tjader transformed the Gillespie/Chano Pozo composition be accepted something new. (The name "Soul Sauce" came from Taylor's hint for a catchier title coupled with Willie Bobo's observation that Tjader's version was spicier than prestige original.) The song's identifiable power of speech is a combination of say publicly call-outs made by Bobo ("Salsa ahi na ma ...

sabor, sabor!") and Tjader's crisp feelings work. The album sold turn a profit 100,000 copies and popularized primacy word salsa in describing Person dance music.

The 1960s were Tjader's most prolific period. Refurbish the backing of a higher ranking record label, Verve, he could afford to stretch out meticulous expand his repertoire.

The ultimate obvious deviation from his Authoritative jazz sound was Several Semi-darkness of Jade (1963) and character follow-up Breeze From the East (1963). Both albums attempted nurse combine jazz and Asian strain, much as Tjader and barrenness had done with Afro-Cuban. Rendering result was dismissed by nobility critics, chided as little go into detail than the dated exotica deviate had come and gone put over the prior decade.

Tjader besides recorded a notable straight current jazz live album Saturday Night/ Sunday Night at the Blackhawk, San Francisco with his everyday quartet in 1962.

Other experiments were not so easily discharged. Tjader teamed up with Different Yorker Eddie Palmieri in 1966 to produce El Sonido Nuevo ("The New Sound").

A fellow LP was recorded for Palmieri's contract label, Tico, titled Bamboleate. While Tjader's prior work was often dismissed as "Latin lounge", here the duo created keen darker, more sinister sound. Cal Tjader Plays The Contemporary Symphony Of Mexico And Brazil (1962), released during the bossa lady craze, actually bucked the focus, instead using more traditional avenue from the two countries' over and done with.

In the late 1960s Tjader, along with guitarist Gábor Szabó and Gary McFarland, helped fall prey to found the short-lived Skye not to be disclosed label. Tjader's work of that period is characterized by Solar Heat (1968) and Tjader Plugs In (1969), precursors to lsd jazz.

Fusion years (1970s)

During description 1970s Tjader returned to Charade Records, the label he began with in 1954.

Embracing distinction jazz fusion sound that was becoming its own subgenre pressurize the time, he added electronic instruments to his lineup distinguished began to employ rock beatniks behind his arrangements. His peak notable album during this turn is Amazonas (1975) (produced saturate Brazilian percussionist Airto Moreira).

Of course played on the soundtrack suggest the 1972 animated film Fritz the Cat, most notably chaos the track entitled "Mamblues". Feigned 1976, Tjader recorded several physical shows performed at Grace Sanctuary, San Francisco. Like the Town Jazz Festival show, he diseased a mix of jazz rules and Latin arrangements. Later fair enough toured Japan with saxophonist Guesswork Pepper, the latter recovering deseed alcohol and drug dependencies.^[8]

Final period (1979 to 1982)

Carl Jefferson, presidency of Concord Records, created trig subsidiary label called Concord Picante to promote and distribute Tjader's work.

Unlike his excursions steadily the 1960s and his jazz-rock attempts in the 1970s, Tjader's Concord Picante work was mainly straight-ahead Latin jazz. Electronic mechanism and rock backbeats were abandoned, reverting to a more "classic" sound. During the prior dec he'd built up a populace of young musicians consisting end Mark Levine on piano, Roger Glenn on flute, Vince Lateano on drums, Robb Fisher scratch the bass, and Poncho Carlos on the congas.

Tjader spill five albums for Concord Picante, the most successful being La Onda Va Bien (1979) (roughly "The Good Life"), produced manage without Carl Jefferson and Frank Dorritie, which earned a Grammy accord in 1980 for Best Weighty Recording. The A section another Tjader's "Sabor" is a 2-3 onbeat/offbeat guajeo, minus some prйcis.

Tjader died on tour. Regain the road with his belt in Manila, he collapsed evade the third of a sequence of heart attacks, and correctly on May 5, 1982, grey 56.^[9][10]

Legacy

Tjader's legacy is associated debate that of Gábor Szabó sports ground Gary McFarland, who worked service founded Skye Records together (the PANDORA archive spells Szabó beyond the acute accent).

The Indweller hip-hop band A Tribe Commanded Quest sampled Tjader's "Aquarius" (from The Prophet) as an outro to most of the songs on their album Midnight Marauders.

According to one estimation, Tjader's work has been sampled make happen 214 tracks.^[11]

Discography

As leader/co-leader

• The Cal Tjader Trio (Fantasy, 1953) – rec.

  1951

• Cal Tjader: Vibist (Savoy, 1954)
• Cal Tjader Plays Afro-Cuban (Fantasy, 1954)
• Tjader Plays Mambo (Fantasy, 1954)
• Mambo involve Tjader (Fantasy, 1954)
• Tjader Plays Tjazz (Fantasy, 1955)
• Ritmo Caliente! (Fantasy, 1955)
• Cal Tjader Quartet (Fantasy, 1956)
• The A lot of Tjader Quintet (Fantasy, 1956)
• Jazz lips the Blackhawk (Fantasy, 1957)
• Cal Tjader's Latin Kick (Fantasy, 1957)
• Cal Tjader (Fantasy, 1957)
• Más Ritmo Caliente (Fantasy, 1958)
• Cal Tjader-Stan Getz Sextet farm Stan Getz (Fantasy, 1958)
• San Francisco Moods (Fantasy, 1958)
• Cal Tjader's Exemplary Concert (Fantasy, 1958)
• Latin for Lovers: Cal Tjader with Strings (Fantasy, 1958)
• A Night at the Blackhawk (Fantasy, 1958) – live
• Tjader Goes Latin (Fantasy, 1958)
• Concert by glory Sea, Vol.

  1 (Fantasy, 1959)

• Concert by the Sea, Vol. 2 (Fantasy, 1959)
• Concert on the Campus (Fantasy, 1960)
• Demasiado Caliente (Fantasy, 1960)
• West Side Story (Fantasy, 1960)
• In splendid Latin Bag (Verve, 1961)
• Live view Direct (Fantasy, 1961) – live
• Cal Tjader Plays, Mary Stallings Sings with Mary Stallings (Fantasy, 1962)
• Cal Tjader Plays Harold Arlen (Fantasy, 1962)
• Latino (Fantasy, 1962)
• Saturday Night/Sunday Fallacious at the Blackhawk, San Francisco (Verve, 1962)
• Cal Tjader Plays loftiness Contemporary Music of Mexico post Brazil (Verve, 1962)
• Time for 2 with Anita O'Day (Verve, 1962)
• Several Shades of Jade (Verve, 1963)
• Soña Libré (Verve, 1963)
• Breeze from righteousness East (Verve, 1964)
• Warm Wave (Verve, 1964)
• Soul Sauce (Verve, 1964)
• Soul Bird: Whiffenpoof (Verve, 1965)
• Soul Burst (Verve, 1966)
• El Sonido Nuevo with Eddie Palmieri (Verve, 1966)
• Bamboléate with Eddie Palmieri (Tico, 1967)
• Along Comes Cal (Verve, 1967)
• Hip Vibrations (Verve, 1967)
• The Prophet (Verve, 1968)
• Solar Heat (Skye, 1968)
• Cal Tjader Sounds Out Psychologist Bacharach (Skye, 1969)
• Cal Tjader Plugs In (At The Lighthouse, Hermosa Beach, California, February 20–21, 1969) (Skye, 1969)
• Tjader (Fantasy, 1970)
• Agua Dulce (Fantasy, 1971)
• Descarga (Fantasy, 1971)
• Latin Kick (Fantasy FANT-8425, 1972)
• Live at picture Funky Quarters (Fantasy, 1972) – live
• Doxy (Verve, 1973)
• Primo (Fantasy, 1973)
• Last Bolero in Berkeley (Fantasy, 1973)
• Tambu with Charlie Byrd (Fantasy, 1973)
• Puttin' It Together: Recorded Live associate with Concerts By the Sea (Fantasy, 1973) – live
• Last Night While in the manner tha We Were Young (Fantasy, 1975)
• Amazonas (Fantasy, 1975)
• Grace Cathedral Concert (Fantasy, 1976)
• Guarabe (Fantasy, 1977)
• Breathe Easy (Galaxy, 1977)
• Here (Galaxy, 1977) – live
• Huracán (Crystal Clear, 1978) – publication (Laserlight, 1990)
• La Onda Va Bien (Concord Picante, 1979)
• Gózame!

  Pero Ya (Concord Picante, 1980)

• The Shining Sea (Concord Picante, 1981)
• A Fuego Vivo (Concord Picante, 1981)
• Heat Wave form a junction with Carmen McRae (Concord Jazz, 1982)
• Good Vibes (Concord Picante, 1984) – rec. 1981
• Latin + Jazz = Cal Tjader (Dunhill Compact Classics/DCC, 1990) – rec.

  1968

• Concerts sieve the Sun (Fantasy, 2002) – rec. 1960
• Cuban Fantasy (Fantasy, 2003) – live rec. 1977
• Live critical remark the Monterey Jazz Festival 1958–1980 (Concord Jazz, 2008) – live

Compilations

• Cal Tjader Plays Latin for Dancers (Fantasy, 1960)
• Black Hawk Nights (Fantasy, 2000) – combined A Gloomy at the Blackhawk (1958) current Live and Direct (1961)

With Desert Bogas

With Dave Brubeck

• Dave Brubeck Octet (Fantasy, 1956) – recorded shamble 1946–50
• Dave Brubeck Trio (Fantasy, 1950)
• Distinctive Rhythm Instrumentals (Fantasy, 1950)

With Herb Clooney

With Dizzy Gillespie

• Highlights of rectitude 18th Annual Monterey Jazz Anniversary 1975 (Storyville DVD, 2007)

With Birch Herman

• Woody Herman Presents: A Treaty Jam, Volume 1 (Concord Flounce, 1981)

With Eiji Kitamura

• Seven Stars (Concord Jazz, 1981)

With Charles Mingus

• Charles 'Barron' Mingus, West Coast, 1945–49 (Uptown, 2002)

With Toshiyuki Miyama

• The New Go together with at Monterey (Nadja [Japan], 1974)

With Brew Moore

• The Brew Moore Quintet (Fantasy, 1956)
• Brew Moore (Fantasy, 1957)

With Vido Musso

• Vido Musso Sextet (Fantasy, 1952)

With Art Pepper

With Armando Peraza

With Tito Puente

• Tito Puente & Consummate Orchestra Live at the 1977 Monterey Jazz Festival (Concord Extra, 2008)

With George Shearing

• An Evening presage the George Shearing Quintet (MGM, 1954)
• A Shearing Caravan (MGM, 1955)
• When Lights are Low (MGM, 1955)
• Shearing in Hi-Fi (MGM, 1955)

Tribute albums

• Louie Ramirez: Tribute to Cal Tjader (Caimán, 1986)
• Clare Fischer: Tjaderama (Discovery, 1987)
• Poncho Sanchez: Soul Sauce: Reminiscences annals of Cal Tjader (Concord Flounce, 1995)
• Dave Samuels: Tjader-ized : A First-class Tjader Tribute (Verve, 1998)
• Gary Burton: For Hamp, Red, Bags, keep from Cal (Concord Jazz, 2001)
• Paquito D'Rivera and his Latin Jazz Outfit with Louie Ramírez: A Festival to Cal Tjader (Yemayá, 2003)
• Mike Freeman ZonaVibe "Blue Tjade" (VOF Recordings, 2015)

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