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Cal Tjader: Breeze From The East

In May 1964, “Verve” label released “Breeze from the East”, the 37th Cal Tjader album. It was recorded November – December 1963, and was produced by Creed Taylor.

Personnel:

  • Cal Tjader – vibraphone
  • Lonnie Hewitt – piano
  • Dick Hyman – electronic organ
  • Stan Applebaum – celesta, arrangements
  • Jerry Dodgion – flute
  • George Duvivier – double bass
  • Johnny Rae – drums
  • Willie Bobo – percussion
  • Phil Ramone – engineer
  • Val Valentin – director of engineering
  • John Murello – design
  • Al “Jazzbo” Collins, Jack Maher – liner notes

Track listing:

  1. Sake and Greens – Stan Applebaum
  2. Cha – Stan Applebaum
  3. Leyte – Cal Tjader, Lonnie Hewitt
  4. Shoji – Stan Applebaum
  5. China Nights – Nobuyuki Takeoka, Sedores, Yaso Saijo
  6. Fuji – Cal Tjader
  7. Black Orchid – Cal Tjader
  8. Theme from Burke’s Law – Herschel Burke Gilbert
  9. Stardust – Hoagy Carmichael, Mitchell Parish
  10. Poinciana – Buddy Bernier, Nat Simon
  11. East of the Sun (and West of the Moon) – Brooks Bowman

Cal Tjader: In A Latin Bag

In November 1961, “Verve” label released “In a Latin Bag”, the 26th Cal Tjader album. It was recorded in August 1961, in Los Angeles, and was produced by Creed Taylor.

Personnel:

  • Cal Tjader – vibraphone, piano
  • Paul Horn – flute, alto saxophone
  • Lonnie Hewitt – piano
  • Al McKibbon – bass
  • Johnny Rae – drums
  • Wilfredo Vicente – congas
  • Armando Peraza – bongos
  • Pete Turner – photography
  • Dick Hadlock – liner notes

Track listing:

All tracks by Cal Tjader, except where noted.

  1. Ben-Hur – Miklós Rózsa
  2. Green Dolphin Street – Bronisław Kaper, Ned Washington
  3. Pauneto´s Point
  4. Speak Low – Kurt Weill, Ogden Nash
  5. Triste
  6. Misty – Erroll Garner
  7. Mambo in Miami – Armando Peraza
  8. Ecstasy – Paul Horn
  9. Half and Half – Paul Horn

Cal Tjader: West Side Story

On January 1, 1961, “Fantasy” label released “West Side Story”, the 27th Cal Tjader album. It was recorded on October 18, 1960, and consists of musical numbers from Leonard Bernstein’s “West Side Story” in jazz arrangements.

Personnel:

  • Cal Tjader- vibraphone
  • Clare Fischer- piano, celeste, musical director
  • Lonnie Hewitt – piano
  • Red Mitchell, Victor Venegas – bass
  • Shelly Manne, Milt Holland- drums
  • Mongo Santamaria- conga
  • Willie Bobo- drums, timbales
  • George Roberts- trombone
  • Red Callender- tuba
  • Vincent D’Rosa, James Decker, Richard Perissi – French horns
  • Paul Horn- flute
  • Gerald Vinci, Marshall Sosson, Herman Clebanoff, Amerigo Merino, Leonard Malarsky, Robert Barene, Jack L. Pepper, Henry Sugar, Alvin Dinkin – violins
  • Virginia Majewski – viola,
  • VIctor Gottlieb – cello
  • Carol Gotthoffer – harp

 Track listing:

All tracks by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim, except where noted.

  1. Prologue (Leonard Bernstein) / The Jet Song
  2. Something’s Coming
  3. Maria Interlude
  4. Maria
  5. Tonight
  6. America
  7. Cool
  8. One Hand, One Heart
  9. I Feel Pretty / Somewhere