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Besame Mamá - from the album Conga Blue 1995 http://youtu.be/RY09gprbU20 Poncho Sanchez, one of the top American percussionists of our time, is a Mexican-American conguero (conga player), Latin jazz band leader, and salsa singer. Sanchez and his ensemble won the Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album. He has played with Mongo Santamaria, Hugh Masekela and Cal Tjader. The youngest of eleven children, Poncho Sanchez was born in Laredo, Texas. Read more: List of the Top 500 Drummers: http://www.drummerworld.com/drummers/Poncho_Sanchez.html On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 7:10 PM, Richard Williams <pundits...@gmail.com>wrote: > Cal Tjader > > [image: Inline image 2] > > Several Shades of Jade - The Fakir 1963 > http://youtu.be/8AU_91XRstM > > Produced by Lalo Shifren > > Cal Tjader - vibes > Jimmy Raney - guitar > Dick Hyman - organ > Lonnie Hewitt - piano > Bob Bushnell - fretless electric bass > Johnny Rae - drums. > > Cal Tjader grew up in the San Francisco Bay area where he often played > with Paul Desmond and Dave Brubeck. Later in New York City, he played with > Mongo Santamaría, Willie Bobo, and Gábor Szabó. Tjader played the > vibraphone and is known primarily as a Latin/Jazz performer. One of his > most famous albums is called El Ritmo Cliente on Fantasy (red vinyl). He > was also accomplished on the drums, bongos, congas, timpani, and the piano. > He won a Grammy in 1980. > > I used to have this album on vinyl, Several Shades of Jade, on Verve, > which I bought new in 1963, but it is now missing from my collection (Jack > are you reading this). So, I bought the CD which has two albums on it: > Several Shades of Jade and Breeze From the East. Tjader discovered and > groomed Poncho Sanchez, another latin jazz favorite of mine. A lot of > people don't like fusion jazz, but I do. Go figure. > > Read more: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cal_Tjader > > 'Latin Jazz: The First of the Fusions' > by John Storm Roberts > Schirmer Books, 1999 > > > On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 6:07 PM, Richard Williams <pundits...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Thelonious Monk >> >> [image: Inline image 1] >> >> Monk's Dream 1963 >> http://youtu.be/FxailNkhpXs >> >> Thelonious Monk - piano >> Charlie Rouse - tenor sax >> John Ore - bass >> Frankie Dunlop - drums >> >> According to Kelley, Thelonious Monk was born December 28, 1917, in Rocky >> Mount, North Carolina. Monk is considered one of the giants of American >> music. Monk's Dream is the first album Monk released on Columbia Records. I >> still have my original vinyl copy on Columbia Records and the new CD (CK >> 40786). The song “Bye-Ya” clocks in at 6:03. The 2002 re-mastered edition >> on the Columbia/Legacy imprint (CK 63536) contains a version which runs >> only 5.25. >> >> Read more: >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thelonious_Monk >> >> 'Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original' >> by Robin D. Kelley >> JR Books, 2010 >> p, 13 >> >> >> On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 5:27 PM, Richard Williams >> <pundits...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> Miles Davis >>> >>> [image: Inline image 1] >>> >>> Sketches of Spain, Live >>> http://youtu.be/6CZFnyXwlV4 >>> >>> Miles Davis is one of the most influential musicians of the 20th >>> century. Sketches of Spain is an exemplary recording of Third Stream, a >>> musical fusion of jazz, European classical, and world music. The album >>> pairs Davis with arranger and composer Gil Evans, with whom he had >>> collaborated on several other projects, on a program of compositions >>> largely derived from the Spanish folk tradition. >>> >>> According to Crease, the album is a "quasi-symphonic, quasi-jazz world >>> of sound." Chambers says that the album was not well received, but it went >>> on to win for Davis a Grammy Award for Best Original Jazz Composition in >>> 1961. Ranked number 358 on Rolling Stone's list of the "500 greatest albums >>> of all time." >>> >>> Read more: >>> >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Davis >>> >>> 'Gil Evans: Out of the Cool: His Life and Music' >>> by Stephanie Crease >>> Chicago Review Press, 2003 >>> p. 207 >>> >>> 'Milestones: The Music And Times Of Miles Davis' >>> Jack Chambers >>> Da Capo Press, 1998 >>> pp. 10-11 >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 2:51 PM, Bhairitu <noozg...@sbcglobal.net>wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> FYI, for a TM link to this, Brubeck's first group had Bill Smith on >>>> clarinet. Bill joined the staff at the University of Washingtion when I >>>> went there. I played on some avant garde projects he did. A few years >>>> later he showed up at TM residence course with Paul Horn that I attended. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On 12/16/2013 11:23 AM, Richard Williams wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> Dave Brubeck >>>> >>>> [image: Inline image 1] >>>> >>>> Dave Brubeck - Take Five ( Original Video) >>>> http://youtu.be/PHdU5sHigYQ >>>> >>>> "Take Five" is a jazz piece composed by Paul Desmond and performed by >>>> The Dave Brubeck Quartet on their 1959 album Time Out. It is the >>>> best-selling jazz single of all time. >>>> >>>> It was first played by the Quartet to a live audience at the Village >>>> Gate nightclub in New York City in 1959. On the album Time Out, Brubeck >>>> used a different time signature for each track, which was very unusual. >>>> "Take Five" written in a 5/4 meter and it was one of the first Jazz songs >>>> with a time signature other than the standard 4/4 beat or 3/4 waltz time. >>>> It ended up being one of the extremely rare Jazz compositions to become a >>>> pop hit. >>>> >>>> Dave Brubeck – piano >>>> Paul Desmond – alto saxophone >>>> Eugene Wright – bass >>>> Joe Morello – drums >>>> >>>> Read more: >>>> >>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take_Five >>>> >>>> 'Essential Jazz: The First 100 Years' >>>> by Henry Martin >>>> Thomson Wadsworth 2004 >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >> >
