Cal Tjader's Greatest Hits [1995]

by Cal Tjader

Overview

This CD collection is a great improvement over the original, as it doubles the length of the original ten-track selection with ten more tracks from Cal Tjader's Greatest Hits, Vol. 2. The absence of session dates in the liner notes is an uncharacteristic annoyance, but what you basically need to know is that it's a 20-track distillation of the 26 records Tjader made for Fantasy over a nine-year period in the 1950s and 1960s. It's prime Latin jazz with a cool slant, leading off of course with his greatest moment, "Soul Sauce," and including such favorites as "Mamblues" and Mongo Santamaria's "Afro Blue," as well as covers of tunes from West Side Story. Santamaria, Vince Guaraldi, Willie Bob, Stan Getz, Shelly Manne, Scott LaFaro, and Billy Higgins are the most illustrious of the numerous sidemen found on the collection. Completists should note that one of the tracks from Cal Tjader's Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 ("America") was left off of this anthology for space reasons. ~ Richie Unterberger

Product Details

Release Date:	06/30/1995
Label:	Concord
UPC:	0025218243629
Rank:	45065

Tracks

1. Soul Sauce (Guachi Guaro)
2. Mamblues
3. Cool
4. Cubano Chant
5. Ginza Samba
6. Black Orchid
7. Doxy
8. Lucero
9. Maria
10. Afro Blue
11. Invitation
12. Viva Cepeda
13. Mambo Macumba
14. Ritmo Africano
15. Tumbao
16. Bonita
17. A Night in Tunisia
18. Sonny Boy
19. Mambo Terrifico
20. Ritmo Caliente

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Cal Tjader   Primary Artist,Cencerro,Timbales,Percussion,Vibraphone
Willie Bobo   Primary Artist,Drums,Timbales
Mongo Santamaria   Primary Artist,Guest Artist,Bongos,Congas,Percussion
Billy Higgins   Guest Artist,Drums
Clare Fischer   Guest Artist,Celeste,Conductor,String Conductor
Shelly Manne   Guest Artist,Drums
Brew Moore   Guest Artist,Sax (Tenor)
Vince Guaraldi   Guest Artist,Piano
Stan Getz   Guest Artist,Sax (Tenor)
Bayardo Velarde   Congas,Cencerro,Timbales,Bongos
Charlie Walp   Trumpet
Armando Sanchez   Timbales
Carlos Duran   Bass
Jose Lozano   Flute
Manuel Duran   Piano,Claves
Paul Horn   Flute
Eddie Cano   Piano
Lonnie Hewitt   Piano
Dick Collins   Trumpet
Scott LaFaro   Bass
Jerome Richardson   Flute
Luis Miranda   Congas
Victor Venegas   Bass
Al McKibbon   Bass
Eddie Duran   Guitar
Red Mitchell   Bass
Armando Peraza   Bongos,Congas
Al Porcino   Trumpet
John Howell   Trumpet
Luis Kant   Congas

Technical Credits

Deb Sibony   Design
Jose Lozano   Composer,Composer
Saul Soss   Liner Notes
Phill Carrol   Art Direction
Sonny Rollins   Composer
Clare Fischer   Arranger,String Arrangements,Orchestral Arrangements
Frank Paparelli   Composer
Dizzy Gillespie   Composer
Eddie Cano   Composer
Chano Pozo   Composer
Vince Guaraldi   Composer
Joe Tarantino   Remastering,Digital Remastering
Lew Brown   Composer
Lonnie Hewitt   Composer
Leonard Bernstein   Composer
Ray Henderson   Composer
Mongo Santamaria   Composer
Al Jolson   Composer
Bronislaw Kaper   Composer
Buddy DeSylva   Composer
Cal Tjader   Composer
Stephen Sondheim   Composer
Paul Francis Webster   Composer
Richard Rodgers   Composer
Ray Bryant   Composer
Armando Peraza   Composer
Phil Carroll   Art Direction