#caltjader

Breeze from the East is a 1964 album by vibraphonist Cal Tjader, arranged by Stan Applebaum. The album features jazzy lounge music with a quasi-Asian sound. Stephen Cook reviewed the album for Allmusic and described the album as combining "the vibist's [Tjader's] Latin lounge style with kitschy Asian touches" describing the songs "Sake and Greens," "Cha," and "Shoji" as sounding like "'60s-era James Bond on a wild chase through the heart of Tokyo". Cook concluded by feeling that "The ultra-smooth Latin jazz sound Tjader favored has always been more infectious than demanding and Breeze from the East's commercialized mod/eastern elements only end up expanding the pop exotica mix". - Wikipedia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maVRdqauFTQ&list=RDmaVRdqauFTQ&start_radio=1 #CalTjader #Vibraphone #Lounge #Exotica #Jazz #VerveRecords #Music

Ended Monday and welcomed Tuesday after a swim with Vince Guaraldi Trio the debut studio album by American jazz pianist Vince Guaraldi (credited to the Vince Guaraldi Trio), released in the US by Fantasy Records in September 1956. Billboard wrote a positive review, “Altho [sic] sales are unlikely to be spectacular, this is one of the pleasant surprises of the month. Guaraldi is a young San Francisco pianist who has been getting rave notices with the Woody Herman band. Evidence here says he’s a tasteful, authoritative and facile modernist, and that he swings. Further, he has a sense of humor. Guitarist Eddie Duran and bassist Dean Reilly are worthy colleagues. Try their version of John Lewis' 'Django' for a real delight.” - Wikipedia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXf-ymAYdHg&list=PL9reB0DlKm6vv-wriP8wGPmUrCRfL9jxZ&index=1 #VinceGuaraldi #CharlieBrown #Jazz #JazzPiano #EddieDuran #Music #JohnLewis #WoodyHerman #CalTjader #Django

Several Shades of Jade is a 1963 album by Cal Tjader arranged by Lalo Schifrin. Stewart Mason reviewed the album for Allmusic and wrote that of Tjader and Schifrin's collaboration that it was "...no more traditional Asian music than Tjader's similar albums from this period are traditional Latin American music, but the pair wisely avoids the standard clichés of Asian music (no smashing gongs after every musical phrase or melodies that sound like rejects from The Mikado). Instead, Schifrin frames Tjader's meditative vibraphone solos in arrangements that strike a cool balance between western kitsch and eastern exotica, never tipping too far in either direction. ...Several Shades of Jade is actually an interesting experiment that succeeds more often than it fails." - Wikipedia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LbK4H5GLxQ&list=PLdl1y1w4PGIogOo26AmJmFsNR56C1aaxY&index=1 #CalTjader #Vibraphone #LaloSchifrin #Jazz #Exotica #Music #VerveRecords