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Cal Tjader · 1959 · live, Monterey Jazz Festival

Context

Captured at the Monterey festival in 1959, the year Tjader opened the second edition with a well-noted concert, this track appears on Monterey Concerts, released by Fantasy. NPR highlights Willie Bobo's accompaniment on timbales beneath Mongo Santamaría's solo.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Latin jazz, Afro-Cuban. Among the origins and influences of Latin jazz, Afro-Cuban: Afro-diasporic roots, Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's).

By the same artist

• Soul Sauce (1964)

Sources

• npr.org
• EN: Cal Tjader

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