Day: April 21, 2017

In Concert 1964 // Dave Brubeck (Jazz Connoisseur ‎– ♩C 003)

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Update! After some correspondence with a reader, I opted to change the date for this recording.  You can find the illuminating comments below this post in the comment section.  To celebrate, I've included another track from the album.  Enjoy! This is a big one.  The search for this album (as well as another rare Brubeck [...]

Jazz At The Blackhawk // Cal Tjader (Fantasy 3241)

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In addition to being infatuated with Latin music, Cal Tjader was a tasty straight-ahead jazz musician and one of the more famous jazz musicians to come from the West Coast.  A native of San Francisco, Cal's group was a frequent denizen of the jazz clubs in the Bay Area, and called one club in particular [...]