No rehearsal took place, aside from a brief discussion ... Like the recently reissued Our Blues, this double CD presents Cal Tjader before he seriously delved into the Latin tunes that made his name ...

The reason for the season is that it don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing, and this underrated jazzman made sure ...

San Francisco native Guaraldi first came to notice playing piano with Latin jazz vibraphonist Cal Tjader in the mid-50s. By 1960, Guaraldi was leading his own band and had even achieved a hit on t ...

“I met Vince Guaraldi at the end of high school, ’56-’57, at (Tenderloin nightclub) The Black Hawk. He was playing with Cal Tjader and he had a great backing band with Mongo Santamaría,” Vuckovich ...