The historic Blackhawk jazz club (1949-1963) was formerly located at 200 Hyde Street on the northeast corner of Turk Street in the heart of San Francisco's tenderloin district. The smoky neighborhood ...
Multi-instrumentalist Cal Tjader has been gone for over forty years. Had he lived, he would be in his nineties today. The West Coast scene he entered, first as a drummer, then as a vibraphonist, was a ...
Cal Tjader’s 1976 Latin jazz-rock fusion album Amazonas reissued on 180g vinyl offers lush vibes, killer solos, and essential listening. When I first started collecting Cal Tjader records, ...
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I have always enjoyed vibraphonist Cal Tjader’s music, and the way he consistently delivered it. I find his work subtle and nuanced, but it always seems to swing whether he’s playing a ballad or an up ...
Cal Tjader became one of the most popular and influential bandleaders in Latin jazz history, easily ranking as the idiom’s greatest non-Latino performer. Though he began as a drummer with Dave Brubeck ...
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