GA Russell Posted June 4, 2007 Report Share Posted June 4, 2007 Today I opened up Cal Tjader Plugs In from my recent dccblowout.com Skye order. Steve Hoffman's name is nowhere to be found. I thought he remastered all of the Skye recordings for DCC, but I guess not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez Posted June 4, 2007 Report Share Posted June 4, 2007 saw this one today, aqua dulce, it had rhodes and a cover of gimme shelter, but it was the old style fantasy logo (albeit a white promo) so i didnt quite know exactly where to date it.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shrdlu Posted June 4, 2007 Report Share Posted June 4, 2007 Seeing this thread led me to stick "Soul Sauce" on again. That's my favorite Cal, but I have a lot of his albums. I have the 1994 CD, which sounds very good. It adds a new item, Mamblues, to the main session, and I think the original LP would have been better if that had replaced Afro Blue, which is an odd track from a different session. The other tracks on the LP are by Cal's regular working group and are very well locked in. A good Latino performance, when the percussion and bass locks into a groove, is hard to beat! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeweil Posted August 21, 2007 Author Report Share Posted August 21, 2007 Found this pic of the late 1950's Tjader band with Vince Guaraldi, Al McKibbon, Willie Bobo, and Mongo Santamaria: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teasing the Korean Posted August 28, 2007 Report Share Posted August 28, 2007 I have a fairly large and extensive CT accumulation (25 to 30 titles, I'm guessing), but not everything. Which of his Fantasy albums are generally considered to be the best? (I'm talking his first period with the label). Also, I don't have anything later than the early 70s. What are his later Concord albums like, and which are recommended? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GA Russell Posted August 31, 2007 Report Share Posted August 31, 2007 TTK, the Fantasy album which has received the best press over the years has been Monterey Concert, which was a double album now on one CD. One day I'll buy it. ***** Tuesday I saw on YouTube a video from 1975 of Cal with Clare Fischer playing Soul Sauce. I was surprised at how hard Cal struck the vibes with his mallets. He makes it sound easy, but he didn't make it look easy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teasing the Korean Posted August 31, 2007 Report Share Posted August 31, 2007 Thanks. I've got that double LP. It's long overdue for a spin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teasing the Korean Posted September 3, 2007 Report Share Posted September 3, 2007 (edited) The only one I can think of that I would absolutely avoid is the 2-fer called Several Shades of Jade/Breeze from the East. This is a pairing of someone's bad idea to have Call play bad spy-movie music. Hell, even the liner notes acknowledge that these are two of Cal's weakest albums. In fact, the best songs from this CD can be found as bonus tracks on the El Sonido Nuevo CD. I will agree with you that "Breeze from the East" is probably the weakest CT album. BUT: "Several Shades of Jade" is a FLAWLESS album. Truthfully, it's more of a Lalo Schifrin album with Cal in a soloist role, and while it may not be representative of his typical work, it's a terrific album nonetheless. The liner notes to the CD incidentally have nothing bad to say about "Jade," only "Breeze." And I will respectfully disagree with the "bad spy movie music assessment." There are NO BAD Lalo Schifrin albums, Rush Hour soundtracks notwithstanding. GOOD spy movie music album is every bit as good as jazz (They don't call me "Teasing the Korean" for nothing). It's really too bad these two were paired together on CD. There are only a couple of listenable cuts on Breeze, and those few should have simply been added as bonus tracks to "Jade." Edited September 3, 2007 by Teasing the Korean Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeweil Posted September 3, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 3, 2007 Well, it's an opportunity to use the programming function ...... It took me a while to come to terms with "Jade", but if you take it as a Schifrin album with Cal as main soloist it's rather nice. "Breeze", otoh, is downright corny in places ..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allent Posted June 19, 2010 Report Share Posted June 19, 2010 Have any of you registered at the Cal Tjader Forum on http://www.caltjader.com? Mostly fans there, less the specialists, but it deserves to be kept alive! i just did . . . i'm being impatient, i know, but how long does it usually take to get "approved" to post? thanks, allen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeweil Posted June 26, 2010 Author Report Share Posted June 26, 2010 No idea - not too much happening there ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teasing the Korean Posted June 26, 2010 Report Share Posted June 26, 2010 No idea - not too much happening there ... Have there been any CT reissues of note in recent years? I keep seeing the same CDs over and over. The LPs don't pop up too often, at least the ones that I don't have. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeweil Posted February 10, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 10, 2011 I just started a Cal Tjader blog to cover the discographical info I accumulated over the years - will take a bit before I typed everything into the BRIAN database ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GA Russell Posted February 10, 2011 Report Share Posted February 10, 2011 Looks great, Mike! I've bookmarked it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeweil Posted February 11, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 11, 2011 Thanks for the kind words - I will try to add a new session every other day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjzee Posted September 24, 2012 Report Share Posted September 24, 2012 Enjoying Tjader's work on this: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjzee Posted November 27, 2012 Report Share Posted November 27, 2012 Just saw this on Amazon; release date December 11: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeweil Posted November 27, 2012 Author Report Share Posted November 27, 2012 The release of this double CD was almost cancelled as the label couldn't identify some of the tunes. I offered my help and had them all within a few minutes. Tjader biographer contributed some info on the band and time span, helping them correct the personnel and all. This is a very causual gig with lots of tinkling an talking between tunes. A great opprotunity to hear lengthy solos from everybody and the only live recording of that Tjader band with Luis Kant, an excellent underrated conga drummer (the same band without Kant recorded Jazz At The Blackhawk). Read more in the liner notes and in the upcoming Tjader biography, scheduled for release in late spring 2013 (I contributed the discographical part).The tapes, btw, come from a Californian collection of radio broadcasts etc. - there are some great shows to check out. http://www.acrobatmusic.net/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teasing the Korean Posted November 27, 2012 Report Share Posted November 27, 2012 Is there any film or video footage of Cal Tjader from any incarnation of any of his groups? The last time I checked youtube, I couldn't find anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeweil Posted November 27, 2012 Author Report Share Posted November 27, 2012 (edited) That edition of the Tjader Quintet played short sequences in two motion pictures made in 1957, The Big Beat and Salute To Song. It also appeared on the tv show Stars of Jazz (# 32) on February 11, 1957, see James Harrod's blog on Calliope Records. There is a tv recording from Paul Marshall's Club Night (the other band is a Milt Jackson Quartet) with Clare Fischer made sometime in 1978: http://youtu.be/iiEBUJtWB5M There is more, but buried under truckloads of youtube clips with just pics accompanying clips dubbed from discs ... Edited November 27, 2012 by mikeweil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Beat Steve Posted November 27, 2012 Report Share Posted November 27, 2012 (edited) That edition of the Tjader Quintet played short sequences in two motion pictures made in 1957, The Big Beat and Salute To Song. Thanks for the reminder of that one, Mike! A pretty unlikely place for CT to appear in movie centered on a "Teenage music vs Tin Pan Alley moldy figs" plot. Have it among my 50s rock'n'roll movies on VHS. Time to dig it out again ... (No, I did NOT choose my forum nick after that one ) Edited November 27, 2012 by Big Beat Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeweil Posted November 27, 2012 Author Report Share Posted November 27, 2012 (edited) Do you have the equipment to copy that to DVD? I'd love to watch it, if only for the Tjader combo ... Edited November 27, 2012 by mikeweil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted November 27, 2012 Report Share Posted November 27, 2012 I saw that movie on TV one afternoon when I was a kid, before I really knew who Cal Tjader was. To say that his appearance was a contrast to everything else in the movie, before or after, is putting it mildly! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GA Russell Posted November 30, 2012 Report Share Posted November 30, 2012 Just saw this on Amazon; release date December 11: I surely hope someone picks this up, and let's us know how it sounds. The description is very appealling, but I am skeptical of the sound quality. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeweil Posted December 2, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 2, 2012 I had only MP3s to preview the music and identify the songs, but these sounded very good for a radio recording.p.s. just saw they chose a photo of Cal Tjader from the 1970's .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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