Track Listing

1. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
2. Ill Wind (You're Blowin' Me No Good)
3. When the Sun Comes Out
4. Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe
5. I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues
6. Come Rain or Come Shine
7. Over the Rainbow
8. Out of This World
9. Last Night When We Were Young
10. Man That Got Away
11. Blues in the Night
12. Prologue/The Jet Song
13. Something's Coming
14. Maria Interlude
15. Maria
16. Tonight [From West Side Story]
17. America
18. Cool
19. One Hand, One Heart
20. I Feel Pretty/Somewhere

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #76324 in Music
• Released on: 2002-07-30
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

Customer Reviews

jazz masterpiece
Perchance a Jazz artist gets to make one perfect recording: Charlie Parker with Strings, Kenny Burrell's Guitar Forms, Miles Davis Sketches of Spain, Chet Baker with Strings, Billy Holiday and Lady in Satin. Here Tjader is not playing Latin rhytyms but straight ahead jazz, the symphonic strings are marvelous and Lonnie Hewitt is a terrific pianist [who died too young]. The grand music of Harold Arlen, the bluesiest songwriter, and Bernstein! Perfect, a shimmering gem to listen to.

Elevator Muzak?
I have admired Cal Tjader since the 50's. However, this merger of two of his most forgettable albums left me cold. It projects blandness, lacks swing and the arrangements sound atonal,trite and limp. Clare Fischer at his worst? You can hear a difference in "Tonight", in latin tempo which is the one bright star in a blah disk. Two stars for this unfortunate CD, which I'm sure Cal himself would agree is a blatantly commercial attempt to add an "easy listening" label to jazz. A disappointment!