SOUL JAZZ ORCHESTRA :: SOLIDARITY

Canada’s hardest working super-group, The Souljazz Orchestra, return at full throttle this September with Solidarity, a new collaborative album featuring a range of unique artists from their country’s vibrant underground scene. On this latest effort, the band further diversifies its sound with Latin and Caribbean influences for a melange of Tropical styles that sounds tailor-made for summer.

QUANTIC :: SAN FRANCISCO

QUANTIC NEEDS NO INTRODUCTION!


Very excited my Carnal Guillermo (Sweater Funk) is part of this event with Quantic.



If you're in the Mission (SF) on any given night, I'm sure you've seen Jacob playing rare and obscure records of all genres. You can catch Guillermo every 3rd Wednesday at Casanova Bar for his party "Gostosa" with homey Allen Thayer (wax poetics)! Together they run the deepest Brazilian night(Strictly vinyl) in SF! Every 3rd Sunday Jacob also runs a monthly party called "Spill The Wine" where he focuses on Latin records Cumbia, Tropical, Boogaloo, Oldies, music genres. The man has a great collection that he loves sharing!

If you like Latin music this event is not to be missed!

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GATO BARBIERI :: LATIN JAZZ FUNK

By the late 1970s Gato was recording for A&M and moved his music towards Jazz-Pop, Jazz Funk with albums like "Caliente!" (featuring his best known song, a version of Carlos Santana's "Europa") and "Tropico".



Though he continued to record and perform into the 1980s, the death of his wife Michelle led him to withdraw from the public. He returned to recording and performing in the late 1990s, playing music that would fall into the arena of smooth jazz.

GATO BARIERI - EVIL EYES 1978

ALLEN THAYER - CAL TAJDER

Great article/mix on Cal Tjader from Allen Thayer. Check out the whole story on SOUL SPECTRUM. You might learn something new and discover some great music.

Allen Thayer:

I've been working on my Tjader collection since moving to the Bay Area and have nearly completed the 1965-1975 era, which is probably my favorite as it sees Tjader trying to stay hip and relevant and doing a pretty damn good job. The early sixties saw him switch from the Bay Area-founded Fantasy Records to the more nationally-focused Verve Records where he scored his biggest hit, "Soul Sauce". His mid-sixties Verve albums range from soft ballads to funky latin fusion and are all excellent listens. In the late 60s he founded Skye records with like-minded musical oddballs: Gabor Szabo and Gary McFarland and released three albums: Solar Heat, Sounds Out Burt Bacharach and Plus In. A recently released session from those years "Latin + Jazz = Cal Tjader" is particularly revelatory in that it represented, according to Tjader's biographer, Cal's preferred live repertoire: a couple ballads mixed in with some mid-tempo Latin-Jazz numbers.



The Ambassador Presents Cal Tjader - Tjader Jams:

1. Moneypenny Goes for Broke, from: Sounds Out Burt Bacharach
2. Souled Out, from: The Prophet
3. Armando's Guajira (live), from: Latin + Jazz = Cal Tjader (CD only)
4. Soul Sauce (Guachi Guaro), from: Soul Sauce
5. Cubano Chant (live), from: Live at the Funky Quarters
6. Fried Bananas, from: Solar Heat
7. La Murga Pana Mena, from: Primo
8. Amazonas (live), from: Puttin' It Together
9. Agua Dulce (Cool-Ade), from: Agua Dulce
10. Mambero, from: Tjader
11. Ran Kan Kan, from: Agua Dulce
12. Solar Heat, from: Solar Heat
13. Leyte (live), from: Live at the Funky Quarters
14. Gimme Shelter, from: Agua Dulce
15. I Showed Them, from: Tjader
16. Walk on By, from: Sounds Out Burt Bacharach
17. Never My Love, from: Solar Heat
18. Never Can Say Goodbye, from: Last Bolero in Berkeley
19. Morning, from: Agua Dulce
20. Curtain Call, from: Last Bolero in Berkeley