Podcast appearances and mentions of Armando Peraza

Mario Bauza считается изобретателем латиноамериканского джаза в 40-х годах в Нью-Йорке. Но вскоре мейнстримовые джазовые музыканты стали смешивать два стиля — в то время афро-кубинский, в частности, с джазом. Dizzy Gillespie и Chano Pozo с хитом «Manteca» ввели латиноамериканский джаз в стандартный репертуар. А в 50-х годах латиноамериканский джаз взорвался, Tito Puente стал одной из его величайших звезд. Чуть позже Stan Getz получит признание за то, что присоединил бразильскую музыку к латиноамериканскому джазу. Когда я приехал в Сан-Франциско, там была яркая латиноамериканская джазовая сцена — John Santos, Roy Obiedo, Omar Sosa, Wayne Wallace, Dr. Loco и еще дюжина групп играли по всему городу. Я научился играть на фортепиано монтуну (кубинская древняя музыка) у великого Josh Jones, а также научился играть румбу в ночных клубах. Пианист George Shearing сделал 5 записей латинского джаза между 1957 -61 годами, 4 из них для Capitol Records и одну для MGM, все с вибрафоном в качестве ведущего инструмента. Я всегда любил эти альбомы Ширинга и искал возможность создать ​​группу с вибрафоном. Спустя 20 лет после отъезда из Сан-Франциско и 3 года назад я стал штатным пианистом и музыкальным руководителем частного ресторана в роскошных высотных резиденциях Park 432. В своих попытках программировать разные виды музыки и при поддержке генерального директора Will Simons я создал эту группу, которая получила большой отклик. После множества концертов в 432 мы начали выступать по городу, получив еще больше откликов. И снова Denny Abrams понравилась идея, он включился в процесс и сделал запись. Я безмерно ему благодарен за это. Пьеса Шерига есть только на одном треке альбома. Но, проведя небольшое исследование, я выяснил, что отклик на участников его альбомов, есть на всх композициях, и я хотел бы перечислить их здесь: Armando Peraza, Toots Thielman, Emil Richards, Cal Tjader, Warren Chiasson, Al McKibbon, Percy Brice, Carl Pruitt, Roy Haynes, Bill Clark, Joe Roland, Denzil Best, Marcus Foster, Calino Rolon, Candido Camero и Dick Garcia. СЛУШАТЬ АЛЬБОМ - https://album.link/i/1757014397 JAZZ SAMBA - https://t.me/discor/6492 STAN GETZ - https://t.me/discor/2227 Лучший трек альбома в плей-листе JAZZ по-русски 8 на AppleMusic и Spotify Поставь лайк ❤️ и подпишись на канал JAZZ по-русски https://t.me/discor #latinjazz

Sintonía: "El manicero" - Candido"Here Comes Candi", "Almendra", "Negrito", "Back To Back", "Madrid" y "Moliendo Cafe", extraídas del álbum "Brujerías" de Candido (Tico,1971/Vampisoul 2004-CD 030). Para el mercado angloparlante se cambió el título por "Candido´s Latin McGuffa´s Dust"."Granny´s Samba", "Souled Out", "Viva Peraza" y "Al bajar el sol", extraídas del álbum "Wild Thing" (Skye,1968/Vampisoul 2003-CD 027) del también percusionista Armando Peraza. Escuchar audio

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Richie Gajate Garcia, a Puerto Rican born in New York City, was raised on the island of Puerto Rico from the age of seven. Richie grew up with musical influences of his percussionist step father Doel Garcia and family friends like Tito Puente, Monchito Munoz and Armando Peraza. Richie started his formal education at Springfield College and then went on to the Conservatory of Music in Chicago where he received his bachelor's degree in music education. Since then, Richie has taught at the Musician's Institute in Hollywood and the Los Angeles Music Academy known as LAMA in Pasadena, California. He is one of the top clinicians worldwide and has become an ambassador to the world teaching and demonstrating the art of drums and percussion with over 700 clinics to his credit. Richie has performed, recorded and toured the world as a drummer/percussionist for several major artists including Phil Collins, Sting, Diana Ross, Hiroshima, John Denver, Tito Puente and the Boston Pops. His experiences transcend musical genres from classical to pop, jazz, salsa, country and hip hop. Richie has authored instructional books which include play along cds. He pioneered instructional drum/percussion videos long before dvds existed and currently has instructional dvds on the market. Countless musicians have credit Richie with their musical successes including his son, Roland Gajate Garcia who was nominated percussionist of the year by the readers of Modern Drummer Magazine. Richie himself has held that title and many more distinctions in the music community including performances on grammy winning and nominated projects. He has been an advocate for music in public schools and spoke on an educational panel for Bill Clinton during his presidency. Richie has invented the gajate bracket distributed by Latin Percussion Inc. which has impacted the genre of multi percussion and taken indepence to a new level. Richie's nickname is “el pulpo” which means “the octopus”. Richie lives in the Los Angeles area with his wife of 30 years Mary. His two adult sons are thriving in the music industry playing regularly on tv and touring with legends. Richie is a trendsetter who continues to passionately perform while he educate and mentors worldwide.

Alberto Ruiz, uno de los grandes cantantes de nuestra tierra, tan pródiga en ritmos, estilos y, cómo no, en imperdonables olvidos, interpretó magistralmente sones, boleros, guarachas, montunos, y todo género que se le puso por delante con su timbre cálido y un dominio absoluto del ritmo y las inspiraciones. Con un estilo de vocalizar marcado por peculiares melismas, Alberto Ruiz identificó la fabulosa era de los conjuntos soneros que, durante los años 40 del siglo XX, fueron punto de giro importante en la evolución de la música popular cubana, y fuente inequívoca de la posterior era "salsera" impulsada a su vez por la desarticulación del entramado de difusión independiente cubano. Apreciaban sus contemporáneos la similitud de Alberto Ruiz con el malogrado cantante Pablo Quevedo, ídolo popular de los primeros años 30, desaparecido tempranamente, víctima de la tuberculosis. En cualquier caso el recuerdo de Alberto Ruiz con su conjunto "Kubavana" nos devuelve hoy el esplendor de aquellas formaciones soneras progresivas que, en plena década del 40, representaron un paso de avance, incorporando elementos rítmicos fundamentales como la tumbadora y la campana, y enriqueciendo el apartado melódico y armónico ampliando la sección de metales a dos y tres trompetas. En sus filas unos juveniles percusionistas Carlos "Patato" Valdés y Armando Peraza y el pianista Eulogio "Yoyo" Casteleiro. Las voces de Mario Recio, Roberto Faz, Carlos Querol, Laíto Sureda y Orlando Vallejo, entre 1944 y 1947 cerraron los coros del "Kubavana" junto a su cantante estrella: Alberto Ruiz. Y de la era de los conjuntos de los progresivos años 40, pasamos a los 50 cuando el auge del "cha cha chá" aseguraba a las orquestas típicas un segundo aire en los escenarios. Recordaremos al flautista José Antonio Fajardo en tres tiempos. Primero, mediando los años 40, junto a la orquesta del llamado "Rey de la Melodía": Joseito Fernández. Fajardo, ya avanzada la década del 50, consagrado en los espacios bailables a lo largo y ancho de la isla, cristalizó estilo y sonoridad gracias a sus grabaciones para los discos "Puchito" y más tarde para el pionero sello "Panart". El "Fajimambo", siempre el músico popular queriendo dejar su huella en el tiempo. Con su ritmo charanga Fajardo conquistará el aplauso de la colonia latina en Nueva York: "Pa Coco solo", otra de sus últimas grabaciones en La Habana. "Los Sitios llaman" y "Desconfianza", danzón-bolero. Volvemos a repasar ciertas memorias del aire que, a lo largo de la primera mitad del siglo XX, tuvieron muy en cuenta a la próspera colonia española asentada en la Isla. Juan Legido, cantante de origen marroquí, triunfó en La Habana de los primeros años 50 como cantante de "Los Churumbeles de España" una de aquellas orquestas que, en la frontera de los 40 a los 50, encontraron en La Habana una plaza artística nada despreciable. Angelillo, un soberbio cantaor flamenco, de paso por Cuba allá por 1937, conquistó a los oyentes de la Radio Cadena Suaritos con esta versión de "Ojos verdes". Grabación histórica que hoy dedicamos a nuestro entrañable Cristóbal Díaz Ayala. La cubana Obdulia Breijo, en su paso por la radio y televisión, con el sobrenombre de "La Sevillanita", representó toda aquella época de incesantes presentaciones en directo donde los artistas criollos alternaron con muchos intérpretes españoles recién llegados al Caribe dispuestos a triunfar y "hacer las Américas". En 1951 hicieron furor en la radio cubana el Niño de Utrera y Trini Morén con este drama cantado que seguramente hizo derramar más de una lágrima: "El hijo de nadie". Como llegamos, nos vamos. Volvemos al recuerdo de aquellos formidables conjuntos cubanos que durante los años 40, 50 y 60, reforzaron la presencia de la música popular cubana en el mundo. Tres grandes del Son: Aristides Balmaseda, Filiberto y el chino Lahera con el Conjunto "Estrellas de Chocolate ", el piano de Columbié, y los arreglos y el tres del gran Niño Rivera.

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GEORGE SHEARING & THE MONTGOMERY BROTHERS – Los Angeles – October 9, 1961 Double deal, No hard feelings, Darn that dream, Love for sale Buddy Montgomery (vib) George Shearing (p) Wes Montgomery (g) Monk Montgomery (b) Walter Perkins (d) – October 10, 1961 Stranger in paradise, Mambo in chimes (wp out) Armando Peraza (cga) Rimaro […]

San Francisco, back again my friend to the days of wine and roses -Cal Tjader, Bayete, Armando Peraza, Eddie Marshall Ron Stallings, and the rest of the Mill Valley Gang which included David "What are their names" Crosby. San Francisco was a beautiful artistic enclave before anybody knew it was great. It was an incubator of Latin Funk mixed with Psychedelic Rock and 1st generation blues players like a John Lee Hooker. Marin City was filled with the sounds of Wes Montgomery and Bola Sete. My guest hails from The Bay and is a blur of movement and magic. Lightning fast when he is in that trance. The one he found himself in again and again in his garage Woodshedding for hours. Being ready for the live moment in front of audiences at Andres or The Poppycock or Woodstock. Relentless pursuit for those who chant with Carmelo Garcia and Victor Pantoja and Hadley Caliman. My guest was the drummer for Carlos Santana during the most explosive growth of electronic music in our countries history. Sound expansion, playing seemingly simple patterns in complex polyrhythmic grooves exploring the thesaurus of scales the way Coltrane used to duke it out with Elvin Jones. Except it was my guest along with Doug Rauch and Michael Carabello with Tom Costner laying on the B-3. He has played on the world stage with the heaviest cats like Neil Schon, Sammy Hagar and Steve Winwood challenging gravity with flurries of patterns while still holding it down. He is the same master drumming discussion as Jack DeJohnette, Billy Cobham, Billy Kreutzmann, Lenny White Greg Errico and Gaylord Birch. When music came out of the community and was supported by the community. Now that community looks somewhat different as we have fully become automatic men in the age of digitization. On this journey I have used technology to find my heroes in music. Once accessed these cats provide lessons in leadership, love, life and lineage. My guest does it by helping people dance, maybe even the teacher in the classroom because you want to enjoy the musical ride. Looking to set the rhythm straight in 2015 Michael Shrieve welcome to the JFS. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jake-feinberg/support

My show has been dedicated to entrepreneurs. Creators of percussive instruments that increase the sonic nature of music. The "Mark Tree" and the water phone, the Gravity Adjusters Expansion Band and New Music of the West. My show has also been dedicated to the congero. The hand drum that was introduced to this country by Dizzy Gillespie when he brought Chano Pozo to the states. The same can be said for Armando Peraza who started with George Shearing then Cal Tjader and eventually his own career. My show has also been dedicated to the original masters like Buddy Rich and Earl Palmer, Max Roach and Cozy Cole, Elvin Jones and Ron Tutt. Guys who played light but fierce. Using smaller sticks and playing less notes but finding a way t contribute to the session and elevate the music to a higher level. My guest today fits into all three of these dedicated themes. He is a creator of rhythm using one hand to create the beat which frees up his other hand to add splashes of colors and polyrhythms to create space within the music. He has made many of his own drums out of barrels and clay. My guest is a congero in his own right. He developed his chops seeing the world in the US Navy Band touring South America and other middle world continents where the intoxicating sounds of Mongo Santamaria pulsated my guests brain. He has used the cungas in non traditional country settings or bluegrass settings since settling down in Music City USA in 1970. And like the original masters he can swing the band in an authentic fashion because of feel. He has enhanced countless sessions from Doc and Merle Watson to Ray Charles and Vassar Clements, from Tony Joe White to Billy Joe Shaver and Hargus Pig Robbins. Here remains as active as ever in today's music business. Helping mentor younger musicians on the less technical aspects of swing- those being love, life, leadership and lineage. Live from Nashville, TN- Kenny Malone welcome to the JFS. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jake-feinberg/support

My guest today has been a band leader for over 60 years. He made his name playing the vibes which is this hosts favorite instrument. It's a percussion instrument with a warm sound and can be played in a trio setting the way Red Norvo did with Tal Farlow and Mingus or in a Quintet setting like Cal Tjader did with Armando Peraza, Al mcKibbon and Dick Birk. It fits into all types of musical settings and it was popularized by my guest by his virtuosic approach and an ability to create an output within the big band ensemble. My guest today is a lover of people. He has an insatiable desire to play music you can tap your foot to. That's what Jack Kleinsinger told me about my guest. He's played on the east coast and west during the heyday of bebop and swing. His peers include Bill Holman and Chet Baker, Jimmy Rowles and Ray Brown, Milt Jackson and Harold Land. These cats had to sing for their supper because if they didn't sing there would be nothing left to eat. My guest was a relentless entertainer and musician. He created a following through his gesticulations and banter along with a Jitterbug Waltz when music was made for dancing. His collaborations with Steve Allen and Star Time increased his name recognition in the often obscure world of improvisational swing or melodic invention. He continues to be a link in the chain For younger musicians who are searching for something to say. There are no more live clubs on every corner of urban America, there are no longer 1 month residencies at the London House or Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse or Lord Chumleys and the barriers and stratification that have been put up in music hurt the ability for experimentation and chance taking because mega money has superseded quality art, pacification rules the day as opposed to the visceral culture that was visible on Market Street in Chicago or Harlem. Ultimately the ego has superseded the music in that individuals now project their own monster chops at the expense of the accompanists, the listening and the love. This is why lessons in life from the old guard are key. It's why my guests son plays with venerable grey beards Ron Carter, Kenny Barron and Ron McClure......time for some good vibes. Terry Gibbs welcome to the JFS. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jake-feinberg/support

To believe that you were part of real movement towards social progress is validation to some. For those who were actively involved in cultivating the spirits of the change is magical. When the involvement is through rhythm then the spirit transcends. My guest today came from one of the greatest regional hotbeds of local music - the San Francisco Bay Area. He was the drummer for Sly Stone and the Family which fashioned multiethnic multiracial bi-gender members intent of exposing the city by the bay as a place of experimentation, intellectualism and a down right fuck you to American conformity. My guest moved on from the Family and made stops along the way with Carlos Santana and played with some of the greatest Afro Cuban percussionists including Victor Pantoja Willie Bobo and Armando Peraza and Coke Eacovedo. Guys who were rooted in the rhythms made popular by Bay Area vibist Cal Tjader... From Latin Rock to Weather Report and the Boogie Woogie Waltz with Joe Zawinul. While dwelling in fusion he was also tied into the Novato scene. The barn with Mickey hart and Bill Kreutzman, Zakir Hussain. Maybe a trip over the Lee Charlton's to play with the gravity adjusters expansion band. Ultimately this paved the way for a connection with Jerry Garcia and John Kahn in this hosts favorite pocket of that band lifespan. I wish there was a riot going on! Greg Errico welcome to the JFS. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jake-feinberg/support

The drums tell stories when played by masters. The traditional chanting with the drum elicits the spiritual sanctuary of slaves aboard ships sailing from Mother Africa to the islands. The slaves communicated amongst themselves, staying in the moment, keeping spirits high, as high as they could be. The drum and its rhythms made their way through the steel bands of the Bahamas and Danny Ray playing Cungas @ some Pink Flamingo Hotel in Miami Beach to Armando Peraza and George Shearin or Chano Pozo and Dizzy Gillespie. But what about the stories, the poems the clave beat in Congo Square or Wayne State when my guest attended school. When traditional earthy Afro-Centric Jazzers were exploring Free Music. Totally unencumbered by time- The total African American Experience....in the moment all the time everyday. My guest today is a creator. Forever creating his spirit transcends his own being. Some people wait a whole lifetime to figure this out. My guest started realizing his true nature back when Frank Strazzeri and Jimmy McGriff and Willis Jackson were blowing up Rochester at the social club his mom ran. At Wayne State the neighborhoods were communities, tribes with different factions but an understanding of the music. The power of the music and the sophistication of the music. It might have been the Jockey Club with Jimmy Smith and Donald Bailey. Or at the London House where Ed Thigpen held down the groove with Oscar Peterson and Ray Brown. The music and the rhythms have always been suppressed in this country which is why my guest is no longer living here. He lives in France where music is an inherent part of the cultural fabric of the people. It's a multi-colored fabric that reaches all across the world and acknowledged the great black musicians, artists and entertainers. You want to make 5 trillion dollars and be obligated to give nothing back to the culture then the US is the place to be. If you want to be recognized and appreciated as an artist within a successful non communist system most African musicians moved to Europe. All of a sudden we as a country are having big discussions about race. My guest felt this, saw this, experienced this decades ago and bounced out. He dug the Midwest what with his unheralded Black Artists Group of St. Louie.....when Dizzy and Blakey and Elvin were still circuiting this globe searching for that magic triangle of sound. My guest left an imprint with the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians and The Arts Ensemble of Chicago which pleasured audiences here in the States and abroad what with their colorful attire, storytelling and sheer creative genius that told the story of their people. A story getting lost in the homogenization of the Americas. My guest believes his number one goal is to please the audience, educate those who's ears are open and play on in the memory of Roy Brooks and Tony Williams and Buddy Rich and Joe Jones and Art Blakey and.........well. Famoudou Don Moye welcome to the JFS --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jake-feinberg/support

En esta 2da parte del programa especial transmitido en vivo el 19/04/2019 rendimos homenaje a 2 exponentes de nuestra apasionante mùsica latina, el maestro conguero Armando Peraza y el cantante puertorriqueño Cheo Feliciano, ambos desaparecidos por esa fecha. Como siempre, en el espacio, comentamos anècdotas, discos y el legado de estos grandes maestros. Puedes encontrar toda la música de este podcast en: https://app.box.com/v/ferarca

En este programa especial transmitido en vivo el 19/04/2019 rendimos homenaje a 2 exponentes de nuestra apasionante mùsica latina, el maestro conguero Armando Peraza y el cantante puertorriqueño Cheo Feliciano, ambos desaparecidos por esa fecha. Como siempre, en el espacio, comentamos anècdotas, discos y el legado de estos grandes maestros. Puedes encontrar toda la música de este podcast en: https://app.box.com/v/ferarca

En esta 3ra y última parte del programa especial transmitido en vivo el 19/04/2019 rendimos homenaje a 2 exponentes de nuestra apasionante mùsica latina, el maestro conguero Armando Peraza y el cantante puertorriqueño Cheo Feliciano, ambos desaparecidos por esa fecha. Como siempre, en el espacio, comentamos anècdotas, discos y el legado de estos grandes maestros. Puedes encontrar toda la música de este podcast en: https://app.box.com/v/ferarca

Nato all Avana nel 22, arrivato in America del nord nel 48, il conguero Mongo Santamaria è uno dei grandi percussionisti cubani che si sono coperti di gloria nel jazz e nella musica latina negli Stati Uniti. Dalla sua prima esibizione al festival viene tratto Mongo at Montreux. Nella sua band anche un altro eminente percussionista cubano, Armando Peraza (arrivato negli Stati Uniti assieme a Santamaria), il newyorkese Steve Berrios, un altro dei grandi specialisti di percussioni latine, inizialmente influenzato proprio da Mongo Santamaria, e Eddy Martinez, pianista, arrangiatore e compositore colombiano inseritosi nel jazz e nel latin jazz negli Stati Uniti, dove è stato attivissimo ai livelli più alti, spaziando dal jazz alla salsa. (prima parte) A cura di Marcello Lorrai

Nato all Avana nel 22, arrivato in America del nord nel 48, il conguero Mongo Santamaria è uno dei grandi percussionisti cubani che si sono coperti di gloria nel jazz e nella musica latina negli Stati Uniti. Dalla sua prima esibizione al festival viene tratto Mongo at Montreux. Nella sua band anche un altro eminente percussionista cubano, Armando Peraza (arrivato negli Stati Uniti assieme a Santamaria), il newyorkese Steve Berrios, un altro dei grandi specialisti di percussioni latine, inizialmente influenzato proprio da Mongo Santamaria, e Eddy Martinez, pianista, arrangiatore e compositore colombiano inseritosi nel jazz e nel latin jazz negli Stati Uniti, dove è stato attivissimo ai livelli più alti, spaziando dal jazz alla salsa. (prima parte) A cura di Marcello Lorrai

Armando Peraza es uno de los mejores bongoseros de todos los tiempos. Nació en La Habana el 30 de mayo de 1924. Antes de fijar su residencia en USA había dejado muestras de su valía en las orquestas de El Niño Rivera, Paulina Alvarez, Julio Cueva y el Conjunto Rumbavana.

S. Duncan Reid has written a meticulously researched and detailed account of the performances and recording career of Bay Area-raised and small group Latin-jazz innovator and vibraphonist Cal Tjader. Tjader’s high-energy yet lyrical and melodic playing introduced new demographics of jazz listeners to the soulful sound of Latin jazz for four decades beginning in the 1940s and ending with Tjader’s untimely death at the age of 56 in 1982. In Cal Tjader: The Life and Recordings of the Man Who Revolutionized Latin Jazz (McFarland, 2013), Reid details Tjader’s uncanny ability to soak up ever-evolving stylistic and percussive nuances – and discusses his collaborations with and influences on other Latin jazz innovators such as Mongo Santamaria, Willie Bobo, Poncho Sanchez, Vince Guaraldi, Michael Wolff and many, many more. Reid recounts how Mario Bauza, Machito, Tito Puente, Dizzy Gillespie, and Stan Kenton, among others, had influenced the Latin jazz scene in the 1940s with their exciting big band/orchestral sound – and that the majority of influential jazz critics were “East of the Mississippi.” One of the delights in Reid’s book is to see how Tjader, with his San Francisco Bay Area roots and a European family background, nonetheless was attracted to and became an innovator in the small-group Latin jazz scene. Cal Tjader was literally born to rhythm. His father, of Swedish descent, was a talented vaudevillian. His Idaho-born mother played classical piano. Tjader’s parents opened a popular dance studio in San Mateo, California in the late 1920s. Tjader was already tap dancing in front of audiences by the age of 4 and as a child even danced with tap dance legend Bill “Bojangles” Robinson on a Hollywood set in the early 1930s. Forsaking tap dancing in high school, Tjader picked up drums and within three years won a Gene Krupa drum contest playing “Drum Boogie.” News of his success, however, was “overshadowed” by another news event –the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. After serving in the South Pacific in WWII, Tjader returned to the San Francisco Bay area, attended San Francisco State College and soon began collaborating with other West Coast jazz musicians – most notably Dave Brubeck (Tjader started out as a drummer for Brubeck in the late 1940s and subsequently the vibes), and sax player Paul Desmond. It wasn’t long, however, before Tjader became enamored of the infectious and complex percussive permutations in Afro-Cuban rhythms after meeting Cuban percussionist Armando Peraza in San Francisco early in 1950. Reid also writes that Tjader’s collaborations/recordings with classically trained jazz pianist George Shearing were central to Tjader’s own evolution in the small-group Latin sound. Shearing called Tjader a “percussive genius.” Tjader always had a lyrical quality to his playing – he left space and was always looking for new compositional challenges, and it wasn’t long before Tjader became a fixture in the small-group Latin jazz scene in San Francisco, playing gigs at the most famous San Francisco clubs of the day – notably The Blackhawk, The Great American Music Hall, and the El Matador. Tjader is probably most associated with his catchy cover of the Gillespie/Pozo hit Guarachi Guaro on his Grammy-nominated album Soul Sauce in 1964. Tjader later won a Grammy for his album La Onda Va Bien, recorded in 1979. Reid is upfront about Tjader’s problems with alcohol and challenging family dynamics but doesn’t psychologize – he lets his interviewees do the talking. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

S. Duncan Reid has written a meticulously researched and detailed account of the performances and recording career of Bay Area-raised and small group Latin-jazz innovator and vibraphonist Cal Tjader. Tjader’s high-energy yet lyrical and melodic playing introduced new demographics of jazz listeners to the soulful sound of Latin jazz for four decades beginning in the 1940s and ending with Tjader’s untimely death at the age of 56 in 1982. In Cal Tjader: The Life and Recordings of the Man Who Revolutionized Latin Jazz (McFarland, 2013), Reid details Tjader’s uncanny ability to soak up ever-evolving stylistic and percussive nuances – and discusses his collaborations with and influences on other Latin jazz innovators such as Mongo Santamaria, Willie Bobo, Poncho Sanchez, Vince Guaraldi, Michael Wolff and many, many more. Reid recounts how Mario Bauza, Machito, Tito Puente, Dizzy Gillespie, and Stan Kenton, among others, had influenced the Latin jazz scene in the 1940s with their exciting big band/orchestral sound – and that the majority of influential jazz critics were “East of the Mississippi.” One of the delights in Reid’s book is to see how Tjader, with his San Francisco Bay Area roots and a European family background, nonetheless was attracted to and became an innovator in the small-group Latin jazz scene. Cal Tjader was literally born to rhythm. His father, of Swedish descent, was a talented vaudevillian. His Idaho-born mother played classical piano. Tjader’s parents opened a popular dance studio in San Mateo, California in the late 1920s. Tjader was already tap dancing in front of audiences by the age of 4 and as a child even danced with tap dance legend Bill “Bojangles” Robinson on a Hollywood set in the early 1930s. Forsaking tap dancing in high school, Tjader picked up drums and within three years won a Gene Krupa drum contest playing “Drum Boogie.” News of his success, however, was “overshadowed” by another news event –the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. After serving in the South Pacific in WWII, Tjader returned to the San Francisco Bay area, attended San Francisco State College and soon began collaborating with other West Coast jazz musicians – most notably Dave Brubeck (Tjader started out as a drummer for Brubeck in the late 1940s and subsequently the vibes), and sax player Paul Desmond. It wasn’t long, however, before Tjader became enamored of the infectious and complex percussive permutations in Afro-Cuban rhythms after meeting Cuban percussionist Armando Peraza in San Francisco early in 1950. Reid also writes that Tjader’s collaborations/recordings with classically trained jazz pianist George Shearing were central to Tjader’s own evolution in the small-group Latin sound. Shearing called Tjader a “percussive genius.” Tjader always had a lyrical quality to his playing – he left space and was always looking for new compositional challenges, and it wasn’t long before Tjader became a fixture in the small-group Latin jazz scene in San Francisco, playing gigs at the most famous San Francisco clubs of the day – notably The Blackhawk, The Great American Music Hall, and the El Matador. Tjader is probably most associated with his catchy cover of the Gillespie/Pozo hit Guarachi Guaro on his Grammy-nominated album Soul Sauce in 1964. Tjader later won a Grammy for his album La Onda Va Bien, recorded in 1979. Reid is upfront about Tjader’s problems with alcohol and challenging family dynamics but doesn’t psychologize – he lets his interviewees do the talking. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

S. Duncan Reid has written a meticulously researched and detailed account of the performances and recording career of Bay Area-raised and small group Latin-jazz innovator and vibraphonist Cal Tjader. Tjader’s high-energy yet lyrical and melodic playing introduced new demographics of jazz listeners to the soulful sound of Latin jazz for four decades beginning in the 1940s and ending with Tjader’s untimely death at the age of 56 in 1982. In Cal Tjader: The Life and Recordings of the Man Who Revolutionized Latin Jazz (McFarland, 2013), Reid details Tjader’s uncanny ability to soak up ever-evolving stylistic and percussive nuances – and discusses his collaborations with and influences on other Latin jazz innovators such as Mongo Santamaria, Willie Bobo, Poncho Sanchez, Vince Guaraldi, Michael Wolff and many, many more. Reid recounts how Mario Bauza, Machito, Tito Puente, Dizzy Gillespie, and Stan Kenton, among others, had influenced the Latin jazz scene in the 1940s with their exciting big band/orchestral sound – and that the majority of influential jazz critics were “East of the Mississippi.” One of the delights in Reid’s book is to see how Tjader, with his San Francisco Bay Area roots and a European family background, nonetheless was attracted to and became an innovator in the small-group Latin jazz scene. Cal Tjader was literally born to rhythm. His father, of Swedish descent, was a talented vaudevillian. His Idaho-born mother played classical piano. Tjader’s parents opened a popular dance studio in San Mateo, California in the late 1920s. Tjader was already tap dancing in front of audiences by the age of 4 and as a child even danced with tap dance legend Bill “Bojangles” Robinson on a Hollywood set in the early 1930s. Forsaking tap dancing in high school, Tjader picked up drums and within three years won a Gene Krupa drum contest playing “Drum Boogie.” News of his success, however, was “overshadowed” by another news event –the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. After serving in the South Pacific in WWII, Tjader returned to the San Francisco Bay area, attended San Francisco State College and soon began collaborating with other West Coast jazz musicians – most notably Dave Brubeck (Tjader started out as a drummer for Brubeck in the late 1940s and subsequently the vibes), and sax player Paul Desmond. It wasn’t long, however, before Tjader became enamored of the infectious and complex percussive permutations in Afro-Cuban rhythms after meeting Cuban percussionist Armando Peraza in San Francisco early in 1950. Reid also writes that Tjader’s collaborations/recordings with classically trained jazz pianist George Shearing were central to Tjader’s own evolution in the small-group Latin sound. Shearing called Tjader a “percussive genius.” Tjader always had a lyrical quality to his playing – he left space and was always looking for new compositional challenges, and it wasn’t long before Tjader became a fixture in the small-group Latin jazz scene in San Francisco, playing gigs at the most famous San Francisco clubs of the day – notably The Blackhawk, The Great American Music Hall, and the El Matador. Tjader is probably most associated with his catchy cover of the Gillespie/Pozo hit Guarachi Guaro on his Grammy-nominated album Soul Sauce in 1964. Tjader later won a Grammy for his album La Onda Va Bien, recorded in 1979. Reid is upfront about Tjader’s problems with alcohol and challenging family dynamics but doesn’t psychologize – he lets his interviewees do the talking. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

S. Duncan Reid has written a meticulously researched and detailed account of the performances and recording career of Bay Area-raised and small group Latin-jazz innovator and vibraphonist Cal Tjader. Tjader’s high-energy yet lyrical and melodic playing introduced new demographics of jazz listeners to the soulful sound of Latin jazz for four decades beginning in the 1940s and ending with Tjader’s untimely death at the age of 56 in 1982. In Cal Tjader: The Life and Recordings of the Man Who Revolutionized Latin Jazz (McFarland, 2013), Reid details Tjader’s uncanny ability to soak up ever-evolving stylistic and percussive nuances – and discusses his collaborations with and influences on other Latin jazz innovators such as Mongo Santamaria, Willie Bobo, Poncho Sanchez, Vince Guaraldi, Michael Wolff and many, many more. Reid recounts how Mario Bauza, Machito, Tito Puente, Dizzy Gillespie, and Stan Kenton, among others, had influenced the Latin jazz scene in the 1940s with their exciting big band/orchestral sound – and that the majority of influential jazz critics were “East of the Mississippi.” One of the delights in Reid’s book is to see how Tjader, with his San Francisco Bay Area roots and a European family background, nonetheless was attracted to and became an innovator in the small-group Latin jazz scene. Cal Tjader was literally born to rhythm. His father, of Swedish descent, was a talented vaudevillian. His Idaho-born mother played classical piano. Tjader’s parents opened a popular dance studio in San Mateo, California in the late 1920s. Tjader was already tap dancing in front of audiences by the age of 4 and as a child even danced with tap dance legend Bill “Bojangles” Robinson on a Hollywood set in the early 1930s. Forsaking tap dancing in high school, Tjader picked up drums and within three years won a Gene Krupa drum contest playing “Drum Boogie.” News of his success, however, was “overshadowed” by another news event –the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. After serving in the South Pacific in WWII, Tjader returned to the San Francisco Bay area, attended San Francisco State College and soon began collaborating with other West Coast jazz musicians – most notably Dave Brubeck (Tjader started out as a drummer for Brubeck in the late 1940s and subsequently the vibes), and sax player Paul Desmond. It wasn’t long, however, before Tjader became enamored of the infectious and complex percussive permutations in Afro-Cuban rhythms after meeting Cuban percussionist Armando Peraza in San Francisco early in 1950. Reid also writes that Tjader’s collaborations/recordings with classically trained jazz pianist George Shearing were central to Tjader’s own evolution in the small-group Latin sound. Shearing called Tjader a “percussive genius.” Tjader always had a lyrical quality to his playing – he left space and was always looking for new compositional challenges, and it wasn’t long before Tjader became a fixture in the small-group Latin jazz scene in San Francisco, playing gigs at the most famous San Francisco clubs of the day – notably The Blackhawk, The Great American Music Hall, and the El Matador. Tjader is probably most associated with his catchy cover of the Gillespie/Pozo hit Guarachi Guaro on his Grammy-nominated album Soul Sauce in 1964. Tjader later won a Grammy for his album La Onda Va Bien, recorded in 1979. Reid is upfront about Tjader’s problems with alcohol and challenging family dynamics but doesn’t psychologize – he lets his interviewees do the talking. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

S. Duncan Reid has written a meticulously researched and detailed account of the performances and recording career of Bay Area-raised and small group Latin-jazz innovator and vibraphonist Cal Tjader. Tjader’s high-energy yet lyrical and melodic playing introduced new demographics of jazz listeners to the soulful sound of Latin jazz for four decades beginning in the 1940s and ending with Tjader’s untimely death at the age of 56 in 1982. In Cal Tjader: The Life and Recordings of the Man Who Revolutionized Latin Jazz (McFarland, 2013), Reid details Tjader’s uncanny ability to soak up ever-evolving stylistic and percussive nuances – and discusses his collaborations with and influences on other Latin jazz innovators such as Mongo Santamaria, Willie Bobo, Poncho Sanchez, Vince Guaraldi, Michael Wolff and many, many more. Reid recounts how Mario Bauza, Machito, Tito Puente, Dizzy Gillespie, and Stan Kenton, among others, had influenced the Latin jazz scene in the 1940s with their exciting big band/orchestral sound – and that the majority of influential jazz critics were “East of the Mississippi.” One of the delights in Reid’s book is to see how Tjader, with his San Francisco Bay Area roots and a European family background, nonetheless was attracted to and became an innovator in the small-group Latin jazz scene. Cal Tjader was literally born to rhythm. His father, of Swedish descent, was a talented vaudevillian. His Idaho-born mother played classical piano. Tjader’s parents opened a popular dance studio in San Mateo, California in the late 1920s. Tjader was already tap dancing in front of audiences by the age of 4 and as a child even danced with tap dance legend Bill “Bojangles” Robinson on a Hollywood set in the early 1930s. Forsaking tap dancing in high school, Tjader picked up drums and within three years won a Gene Krupa drum contest playing “Drum Boogie.” News of his success, however, was “overshadowed” by another news event –the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. After serving in the South Pacific in WWII, Tjader returned to the San Francisco Bay area, attended San Francisco State College and soon began collaborating with other West Coast jazz musicians – most notably Dave Brubeck (Tjader started out as a drummer for Brubeck in the late 1940s and subsequently the vibes), and sax player Paul Desmond. It wasn’t long, however, before Tjader became enamored of the infectious and complex percussive permutations in Afro-Cuban rhythms after meeting Cuban percussionist Armando Peraza in San Francisco early in 1950. Reid also writes that Tjader’s collaborations/recordings with classically trained jazz pianist George Shearing were central to Tjader’s own evolution in the small-group Latin sound. Shearing called Tjader a “percussive genius.” Tjader always had a lyrical quality to his playing – he left space and was always looking for new compositional challenges, and it wasn’t long before Tjader became a fixture in the small-group Latin jazz scene in San Francisco, playing gigs at the most famous San Francisco clubs of the day – notably The Blackhawk, The Great American Music Hall, and the El Matador. Tjader is probably most associated with his catchy cover of the Gillespie/Pozo hit Guarachi Guaro on his Grammy-nominated album Soul Sauce in 1964. Tjader later won a Grammy for his album La Onda Va Bien, recorded in 1979. Reid is upfront about Tjader’s problems with alcohol and challenging family dynamics but doesn’t psychologize – he lets his interviewees do the talking. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

S. Duncan Reid has written a meticulously researched and detailed account of the performances and recording career of Bay Area-raised and small group Latin-jazz innovator and vibraphonist Cal Tjader. Tjader’s high-energy yet lyrical and melodic playing introduced new demographics of jazz listeners to the soulful sound of Latin jazz for four decades beginning in the 1940s and ending with Tjader’s untimely death at the age of 56 in 1982. In Cal Tjader: The Life and Recordings of the Man Who Revolutionized Latin Jazz (McFarland, 2013), Reid details Tjader’s uncanny ability to soak up ever-evolving stylistic and percussive nuances – and discusses his collaborations with and influences on other Latin jazz innovators such as Mongo Santamaria, Willie Bobo, Poncho Sanchez, Vince Guaraldi, Michael Wolff and many, many more. Reid recounts how Mario Bauza, Machito, Tito Puente, Dizzy Gillespie, and Stan Kenton, among others, had influenced the Latin jazz scene in the 1940s with their exciting big band/orchestral sound – and that the majority of influential jazz critics were “East of the Mississippi.” One of the delights in Reid’s book is to see how Tjader, with his San Francisco Bay Area roots and a European family background, nonetheless was attracted to and became an innovator in the small-group Latin jazz scene. Cal Tjader was literally born to rhythm. His father, of Swedish descent, was a talented vaudevillian. His Idaho-born mother played classical piano. Tjader’s parents opened a popular dance studio in San Mateo, California in the late 1920s. Tjader was already tap dancing in front of audiences by the age of 4 and as a child even danced with tap dance legend Bill “Bojangles” Robinson on a Hollywood set in the early 1930s. Forsaking tap dancing in high school, Tjader picked up drums and within three years won a Gene Krupa drum contest playing “Drum Boogie.” News of his success, however, was “overshadowed” by another news event –the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. After serving in the South Pacific in WWII, Tjader returned to the San Francisco Bay area, attended San Francisco State College and soon began collaborating with other West Coast jazz musicians – most notably Dave Brubeck (Tjader started out as a drummer for Brubeck in the late 1940s and subsequently the vibes), and sax player Paul Desmond. It wasn’t long, however, before Tjader became enamored of the infectious and complex percussive permutations in Afro-Cuban rhythms after meeting Cuban percussionist Armando Peraza in San Francisco early in 1950. Reid also writes that Tjader’s collaborations/recordings with classically trained jazz pianist George Shearing were central to Tjader’s own evolution in the small-group Latin sound. Shearing called Tjader a “percussive genius.” Tjader always had a lyrical quality to his playing – he left space and was always looking for new compositional challenges, and it wasn’t long before Tjader became a fixture in the small-group Latin jazz scene in San Francisco, playing gigs at the most famous San Francisco clubs of the day – notably The Blackhawk, The Great American Music Hall, and the El Matador. Tjader is probably most associated with his catchy cover of the Gillespie/Pozo hit Guarachi Guaro on his Grammy-nominated album Soul Sauce in 1964. Tjader later won a Grammy for his album La Onda Va Bien, recorded in 1979. Reid is upfront about Tjader’s problems with alcohol and challenging family dynamics but doesn’t psychologize – he lets his interviewees do the talking. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices