# CD review: Cal Tjader – Catch The Groove: Live At The Penthouse 1963 – 1967 – 2023: Video, CD cover

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- Published: 2023-11-20T00:04:30+01:00
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**Transferred from the original tapes, reels, and mastered for vinyl by Bernie Grundman,
Cal Tjader: Catch The Groove – Live at the Penthouse 1963-1967 is presented as a
180-gram vinyl limited edition.**

The deluxe package includes reflections by producer Zev Feldman and Brent Fischer(
son of pianist Clare Fischer), liner notes by DJ and music journalist Greg Casseus,
as well as interviews with Poncho Sánchez, Eddie Palmieri, Joe Locke, Gary Burton,
Carl Burnett, and a statement by Tjader’s son and daughter Rob and Liz Tjader. The
extensive booklet contains previously unpublished photos by Ray Avery and Fred Seligo.

All of the performances heard on this set are previously unreleased. Vibraphone 
legend Cal Tjader is heard with a variety of quintets, backed by pianists Clare 
Fischer, Lonnie Hewitt and Al Zulaica, bassists Fred Schreiber, Terry Hilliard, 
Monk Montgomery and Stan Gilbert, drummers Johnny Rae and Carl Burnett, and percussionists
Bill Fitch and Armando Peraza.

Vibraphone was seldom a prominent instrument in jazz, but its potential for melody
and improvisation has been realized by several outstanding artists. Among them, 
Cal Tjader, whose performances at Seattle’s Penthouse club are documented by these
previously unreleased recordings.

Although he wasn’t Latino, Tjader was a Latin jazz pioneer and his love for music
from Latin America is heard across this two-CD set, recorded at several dates from
1963-1967. He played simply but sensitively. He wasn’t a fiery player—far from it.
Tjader was the Dave Brubeck of vibes. Even his salsa was cool.

Tjader swings across a wide spectrum of jazz on _Catch the Groove_. “Take the ‘A’
Train” rolls along at an easy pace, and the album stops down the line for melodies
by Brubeck (“In Your Own Sweet Way”) and Rodgers and Hart (“It Never Entered My 
Mind”). His sensibility found ultimate expression in the Brazilian melancholy of
Carlos Jobim’s “Morning of the Carnival.”

_Catch the Groove_ includes a booklet containing hearty appreciations from contemporary
jazz musicians, as well as an essay by New York writer-DJ Greg Casseus who speculates
that Tjader never received his due in jazz history because, after a point, the San
Francisco musician seldom ventured to New York and never to Europe. His influence
during the ‘60s was largely felt on a generation of Latino players, who looked to
him as a model for wrapping Afro-Cuban and Brazilian rhythms around jazz.

**Tracklist**

**SIDE A **

1. Take The “A” Train

2. In Your Own Sweet Way

3. It Never Entered My Mind

4. Morning of the Carnival (Manha De Carnaval)

5. INSIGHT

**Recorded at the Penthouse jazz club in Seattle, WA on February 2, 1963 ****Cal
Tjader (vil), Clare Fischer (p), Fred Schreiber (b), Johnny Rae (dr, timb), Bill
Fitch (cga, perc)**

**SIDE B**

1. Sunset Boulevard

2. Here’s That Rainy Day

3. Davito

4. Pantano

5. Leyte

6. Half and Half

**Recorded at the Penthouse jazz club in Seattle, WA on May 6, 1965, ****Cal Tjader(
vib), Lonnie Hewitt (p), Terry Hilliard (b), Johnny Rae (dr, timb), Armando Peraza(
cga, bgo)**

**
 SIDE C:

1. On Green Dolphin Street

2. Love for Sale

3. Reza

4. Maramoor Mambo

**Recorded at the Penthouse jazz club in Seattle, WA on May 13, 1965 ****Cal Tjader(
vib), Lonnie Hewitt (p), Terry Hilliard (b), Johnny Rae (dr, timb), Armando Peraza(
cga, bgo)**

 

**SIDE D:**

1. The Shadow Of Your Smile

2. BagS’ Groove

3. Morning

4. Mambo Inn

**Recorded at the Penthouse jazz club in Seattle, WA on June 9, 1966, ****Cal Tiader(
vib), Al Zulaica (p), Monk Montgomery (b), Carl Burnett (dr, timb), Armando Peraza(
cga, bgo)**

**
 SIDE E:

1. On Green Dolphin Street

2. I Can’t Get Started

3. Soul Burst

4. Cuban Fantasy

**Recorded at the Penthouse Jazz Club in Seattle. WA on June 16, 1966, Cal Tjader(
vib), Al Zulaica (p), Monk Montgomery (b), Carl Burnett (dr, timb),  Armando Peraza(
cga, bgo)**

 

**SIDE F:**

1. O Morro Não Tem Vez

2. Fuji

3. Lush Life

4. Along Comes Mary

**Recorded at the Penthouse jazz club in Seattle, WA on June 8, 1967, Cal Tjader(
vib), Al Zulaica (p), Stan Gilbert (b), Carl Burnett (dr, timb), Armando Peraza (
cga, bgo)**

Release Date: November 24th, 2023

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