Cal Tjader
Subtitle: the life and recordings of the man who revolutionized Latin jazz
By: S. Duncan Reid ; foreword by Doug Ramsey
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 341
ISBN-13: 9780786435357
Subjects: Discography; Biography; Jazz musicians
Description: "The extensive research going into this book features many interviews with family, friends and colleagues both in the Bay Area and elsewhere; all the liner notes throughout Tjader's prolific recorded output; and interviews with the man himself as well as relevant articles and books. An exhaustive discography chronicles all his sessions"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 328-332), discography (pages 263-315), and index.
Table of contents: title: Tap dancing with Bojangles to playing with Brubeck; title: Tjader plays mambo and Tjazz; title: Reaching for the Skye; title: Last bolero in Berkeley; title: Flying with Concord; title: Epilogue; title: Appendix 1. An interview with Elizabeth A. Tjader; title: Appendix 1. An interview with Robert C. Tjader; title: Musical glossary / by Michael Weil; title: Discography / by Michael Weil.