Plays Mambo

Cal Tjader | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 16, 1996)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Ojc
• ASIN: B000000YFH
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #237,731 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Energetic Tjader Album, March 28, 2006

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Aluminium Horse (Detroit, MI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Plays Mambo (Audio CD)

Mambo is Cuban, NOT Mexican music. It was the most popular Cuban rhythm (cha cha cha is a type of mambo), and salsa was the result of the experimentation in the US of Latin jazz and Latin fusion. Cal Tjader was one of the most influential practitioners of Latin jazz, and although he himself was not Latin, his music sounds just as authentic as that of Tito Puente and Ray Barretto. Although some of the covers on this album sound like, well, covers; other tracks, like Guachi Guara (later titled Soul Sauce), Tjader's composition Mambo Macumba, and Fascinating Rhythm, have a fresh, authentic sound that will get you dancing. This is much more than just a cover album, and suitable for true Latin fusion fans.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Total Gas!, March 23, 2003

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B. London (Chicago) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Plays Mambo (Audio CD)

Count Basie once was asked to define "swing". "It's music meant to make a dead man tap his feet". Whew, this album is a total gas. Swining salsa rhythym messed up in great Jazz standards that will make you tap your toes and shake whatever else you got going, brilliantly recorded sound and Jazz cooking on a slow burn,Mama!

5.0 out of 5 stars Cal Tjader on Fantasy Label, September 14, 2011

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Christine Waller "John & Tina" (Reidsville, NC United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Plays Mambo (Audio CD)

I read a review to BUY any Cal Tjader on Fantasy Record Label. I did and am very pleased.
Great groove. Hummable melodies. Joyous music. It will heal your inner soul. I actually purchased this and 3 others.....