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The following is an excerpt from the "Reaching for the Skye" chapter of Cal Tjader: The Life and Recordings of the Man Who Revolutionized Latin Jazz by S. Duncan Reid (McFarland, 2013). Creed Taylor ...
When people talk about 1950s West Coast jazz, they’re usually referring to the music of Dave Brubeck and Shelly Manne, Shorty Rogers and Bud Shank. But there’s another California jazz sound from the ...
Latin jazz got a much-needed booster shot earlier this year with the release of "Calle 54 (54th Street)," an artistically rich portrait of the bubbling international-jazz movement. The concert film, ...
Cal Tjader was a mere 56 when he died of a heart attack in 1982 while on tour in the Philippines. His Latin jazz footprint, however, was already set. “One of the first to stick jazz and Latin music ...
The Best of the Concord Years celebrates the acclaimed composer, bandleader and vibraphonist Cal Tjader’s last four years, 1979 through 1982. Tjader combined Latin, be bop and cool West Coast themes ...
Born of Swedish American parents in St. Louis in 1925, Callen Radcliffe Tjader Jr. would have seemed an unlikely candidate to become a champion of Latin jazz. But as pianist and arranger Eddie ...
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