Ended the weekend and welcomed the week after a walk with Warm Wave an album by Latin jazz vibraphonist Cal Tjader fronting an orchestra arranged and conducted by Claus Ogerman recorded in 1964 and released on the Verve label.

The Allmusic review by Stephen Cook stated, "If an album ever betrayed Cal Tjader's affinity for former boss George Shearing's ultra-smooth cocktail style, then Warm Wave would be it ... this is less standard Latin lounge Tjader and more an analog to Jackie Gleason's polished easy-listening sound. Tjader's solos are so smooth, in fact, that they practically disappear into Claus Ogerman's opaque arrangements. If you are in the business of collecting classic lounge records, this rates as a good one". - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7KTqpY5NBA&list=RDR7KTqpY5NBA&start_radio=1

#CalTjader #ClausOgerman #Vibraphone #Jazz #Lounge #Exotica #SpaceAgePop #Music #VerveRecords

Got My Mojo Workin' is a 1966 album by Jimmy Smith arranged by Oliver Nelson.

Review by Stephen Cook

After seven high-quality years with Blue Note, organist Jimmy Smith switched over to the Verve label...Got My Mojo Workin', finds the B-3 innovator mixing it up with organ and guitar combo swingers and big band charts compliments of arranger Oliver Nelson. On the first half of the disc, Smith delves into the day's chart-topping terrain with passable shots at the Stevie Wonder hit "High Heel Sneakers," Jagger and Richard's "Satisfaction," and the pop candy of "1-2-3.".. Aided by the stellar likes Kenny Burrell, Ernie Royal, Phil Woods, Ron Carter, and Grady Tate, Got My Mojo Workin' is not a top Smith release, but one dedicated fans will probably want to check out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnB2oHZigmE&list=RDjnB2oHZigmE&start_radio=1

#JimmySmith #KennyBurrell #OliverNelson #VerveRecords #Jazz #Music #SoulJazz #HammondOrgan #JazzOrgan #RollingStones #BigBand

Basie's Beatle Bag is a 1966 studio album by Count Basie and his orchestra, arranged by Chico O'Farrill. - Wikipedia

The Count does the Fab Four!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfpA_gN0maY&list=PLH1p5wz7mA5D5uhkxTo70_03_d6v_ORmp&index=1

#CountBasie #BigBand #TheBeatles #Jazz #Swing #Music #VerveRecords

Ended Wednesday and welcomed Wednesday with Breeze from the East a 1964 album by vibraphonist Cal Tjader, arranged by Stan Applebaum. The album features jazzy lounge music with a quasi-Asian sound.

Stephen Cook reviewed the album for Allmusic and described the album as combining "the vibist's [Tjader's] Latin lounge style with kitschy Asian touches" describing the songs "Sake and Greens," "Cha," and "Shoji" as sounding like "'60s-era James Bond on a wild chase through the heart of Tokyo". Cook concluded by feeling that "The ultra-smooth Latin jazz sound Tjader favored has always been more infectious than demanding and Breeze from the East's commercialized mod/eastern elements only end up expanding the pop exotica mix". - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maVRdqauFTQ&list=RDmaVRdqauFTQ&start_radio=1

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Several Shades of Jade is a 1963 album by Cal Tjader arranged by Lalo Schifrin.

Stewart Mason reviewed the album for Allmusic and wrote that of Tjader and Schifrin's collaboration that it was "...no more traditional Asian music than Tjader's similar albums from this period are traditional Latin American music, but the pair wisely avoids the standard clichés of Asian music (no smashing gongs after every musical phrase or melodies that sound like rejects from The Mikado). Instead, Schifrin frames Tjader's meditative vibraphone solos in arrangements that strike a cool balance between western kitsch and eastern exotica, never tipping too far in either direction. ...Several Shades of Jade is actually an interesting experiment that succeeds more often than it fails." - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LbK4H5GLxQ&list=PLdl1y1w4PGIogOo26AmJmFsNR56C1aaxY&index=1

#CalTjader #Vibraphone #LaloSchifrin #Jazz #Exotica #Music #VerveRecords

Drumorama! is an album by American jazz drummer Louis Bellson featuring performances recorded in 1957 for the Verve label.

Louie Bellson (born Luigi Paolino Alfredo Francesco Antonio Balassoni, July 6, 1924 – February 14, 2009), often seen in sources as Louis Bellson, although he himself preferred the spelling Louie, was an American jazz drummer. He was a composer, arranger, bandleader, and jazz educator, and is credited with pioneering the use of two bass drums. - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mgGiTmDqkQ

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Ella and Basie! is a 1963 studio album by Ella Fitzgerald, accompanied by Count Basie and his orchestra, with arrangements by Quincy Jones.

Fitzgerald and the Basie band had recorded together once before, on the 1957 album One O'Clock Jump.

This album is revered alongside Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie! (1961), Ella Fitzgerald Sings Songs from Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960), Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook (1959), and Ella in Hollywood (1961) as one of Ella's greatest recordings. The album was rated the 175th best album of the 1960s by Pitchfork. - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0phdQAa-Sg&list=OLAK5uy_mrfCJ_RvgkKc94_s4MKiZstO_GQ1pukwI

#EllaFitzgerald #CountBasie #BigBand #Swing #Jazz #VocalJazz #QuincyJones #Music #VerveRecords

Lumpy Gravy is a 1968 solo album by Frank Zappa , written by Zappa and performed by a group of session players he dubbed the Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony Orchestra & Chorus.

Edwin Pouncey of The Wire writes that the album is "[t]he culmination of Zappa's commitment to contemporary classical and electronic music", and deemed it crucial for combining "classically motivated interludes, electronic abstractions and rambling spoken word compositions within a basic rock structure. Whereas other 'rock stars' frequently toyed with vague notions of musique concrète and experimental music, Zappa incorporated them into a medium that extended his musical repertoire and pushed the prowess of The Mothers Of Invention to new heights of skill and endurance."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9H9AJgeNxXo&list=RD9H9AJgeNxXo&start_radio=1

#FrankZappa #MusiqueConcret #SoundCollage #Music #LumpyGravy #VerveRecords #EdwinPouncey