A pioneer of afro and Latin jazz, bandleader and vibraphonist Cal Tjader made his mark and helped popularize the genre in 1956 with "Latin Kick".
Transcendented by arrangements fusing jazz and Latin sounds, his originals and revisited standards (Cole Porter's "I Love Paris", Kurt Weill's "September Song", Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's "All The Things You Are"...) shine with the colors of mambo, salsa and Afro-Cuban rhythms.
This audiophile reissue is part of the Original Jazz Classics collection: 180-gram audiophile quality vinyl with Obi (Japanese-style belly band), mastered from the original analog tapes, original artwork and liner notes.