![]() Of course Tjader fans will want to pick this up, but the mildly curious should explore the excellent Monterey concerts first. ![]() The problem with much of Tjader’s music is that Tjader himself is frequently the least interesting thing about it and only later, with classics like Black Orchid, was he able to create a distinctive and enjoyable Latin jazz hybrid. (Jazz historians will note the appearance of “Afro Blue,” a few years before Coltrane’s famous version.) However, despite the enthusiasm of the band, at this point Tjader wasn’t yet able to fully fuse the foreign rhythms and jazz concept into a convincing whole, so they come off like a bunch of guys who showed up at a black tie dinner wearing sombreros. Only in the second half, which features the dense polyrhythms of Willie Bobo and Mongo Santamaria, does the band really swing into gear. It was also issued in Japan in 2015, on SHM-CD, featuring different bonus tracks recorded at the same sessions. The 1998 limited CD reissue features another seven unissued tracks recorded at different sessions. ![]() Culled from two concerts, one in Honolulu and the other in San Francisco, the first half features well-mannered standards and a distinct lack of perspiration unfortunately, the five song routine seems overly rehearsed and detached. Black Orchid is an album by jazz group The Three Sounds featuring performances recorded in 1962 and released on the Blue Note label. The recording finds Cal Tjader in a state of transition between the West Coast cool jazz he helmed with Dave Brubeck and a full-blown commitment to integrating Afro-Cuban rhythms into jazz. This CD has all of the music originally on the two LPs Cal Tjader Goes Latin and The Cal Tjader Quintet. Concerts in the Sun languished in the vaults for 42 years, but it's now finally available on CD.
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