Cal Tjader Plays Harold Arlen / West Side Story

Cal Tjader | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 30, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Fantasy
• ASIN: B00000DTTT
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #64,510 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #83 in Music > Jazz > Orchestral Jazz

Track Listings

1. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

2. Ill Wind (You're Blowin' Me No Good)

3. When the Sun Comes Out

4. Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe

5. I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues

6. Come Rain or Come Shine

7. Over the Rainbow

8. Out of This World

9. Last Night When We Were Young

10. The Man That Got Away

11. Blues in the Night

12. Prologue/The Jet Song

13. Something's Coming

14. Maria Interlude

15. Maria

16. Tonight [From West Side Story]

17. America

18. Cool

19. One Hand, One Heart

20. I Feel Pretty/Somewhere

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars jazz masterpiece, March 11, 2003

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B. London (Chicago) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cal Tjader Plays Harold Arlen / West Side Story (Audio CD)

Perchance a Jazz artist gets to make one perfect recording: Charlie Parker with Strings, Kenny Burrell's Guitar Forms, Miles Davis Sketches of Spain, Chet Baker with Strings, Billy Holiday and Lady in Satin. Here Tjader is not playing Latin rhytyms but straight ahead jazz, the symphonic strings are marvelous and Lonnie Hewitt is a terrific pianist [who died too young]. The grand music of Harold Arlen, the bluesiest songwriter, and Bernstein! Perfect, a shimmering gem to listen to.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Elevator Muzak?, May 3, 2007

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Juan Oliver Colom (San Juan, PR Puerto Rico) - See all my reviews
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I have admired Cal Tjader since the 50's. However, this merger of two of his most forgettable albums left me cold. It projects blandness, lacks swing and the arrangements sound atonal,trite and limp. Clare Fischer at his worst? You can hear a difference in "Tonight", in latin tempo which is the one bright star in a blah disk. Two stars for this unfortunate CD, which I'm sure Cal himself would agree is a blatantly commercial attempt to add an "easy listening" label to jazz. A disappointment!