Artist: Cal Tjader

Cal Tjader
Aliases
Cal Tjader Quartet
Cal Tjader Quintet
Cal Tjader With Strings
Cal Tjader's Modern Mambo Quintet
The Cal Tjader Quintet
Real name
Callen Radcliffe Tjader Jr.
Born
July 16, 1925
Died
May 5, 1982
Country
United States

Performances

Originals

Title down Performer Release date Covered by
1 Afro Blue Cal Tjader 1959 (33 artists)
2 Aquarius Cal Tjader 1969 Sampled by A Tribe Called Quest
3 Mood for Milt Cal Tjader 1958 Sampled by De La Soul

Covers

Title down Performer Release date Originally by
1 'Round About Midnight Cal Tjader 1959 Cootie Williams and his Orchestra
2 A Child Is Born Cal Tjader 1975 Richard Davis
3 A House Is Not a Home Cal Tjader 1975 Brook Benton
4 A Time for Love Cal Tjader 1969 Jackie Ward
5 Ain't Misbehavin' Cal Tjader, Mary Stallings 1961 Margaret Simms & Paul Bass
6 All the Things You Are Cal Tjader 1957 Hiram Sherman, Frances Mercer, Hollis Shaw, Ralph Stuart
7 An Occasional Man Anita O'Day, Cal Tjader 1962 Gloria DeHaven
8 Anyone Who Had a Heart Cal Tjader 1968 Dionne Warwick
9 Autumn Leaves Cal Tjader's Modern Mambo Quintet 1955 Yves Montand
10 Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen Cal Tjader 1955 Andrews Sisters - (unknown)
11 Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea Cal Tjader 1962 Aida Ward
12 Blue and Sentimental Cal Tjader Quartet 1959 Count Basie and His Orchestra
13 Blues in the Night Cal Tjader 1962 William Gillespie
14 Body and Soul Cal Tjader 1977 Ambrose and His Orchestra
15 Bye Bye Blues Cal Tjader's Modern Mambo Quintet 1955 Tommy Johnson
16 Chloe Cal Tjader's Modern Mambo Quintet 1955 Douglas Richardson
17 Come Rain or Come Shine Cal Tjader 1962 Ruby Hill, Harold Nicholas
18 Cubano Chant Cal Tjader 1958 Ray Bryant Trio
Sampled by De La Soul
19 Dearly Beloved Cal Tjader's Modern Mambo Quintet 1955
20 Django Cal Tjader 1968 The Modern Jazz Quartet
21 Don't Make Me Over Cal Tjader 1968 Dionne Warwick
22 East of the Sun Cal Tjader 1956 The Princeton University Triangle Club
23 Emily Cal Tjader 1975 Julie Andrews
24 Fascinatin' Rhythm Cal Tjader 1955 Fred Astaire, Adele Astaire & Cliff Edwards
25 Flamingo The Cal Tjader Quintet 1956 Duke Ellington and His Orchestra
26 Georgy Girl Cal Tjader 1968 The Seekers
27 God Bless the Child Cal Tjader, Mary Stallings 1961 Billie Holiday
28 Goodbye Cal Tjader, Mary Stallings 1961 Benny Goodman and His Orchestra
29 Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe Cal Tjader 1962 Ethel Waters
30 Have You Met Miss Jones? Cal Tjader 1956 Joy Hodges & Austin Marshall
31 Honeysuckle Rose Cal Tjader, Mary Stallings 1961 Bert Stock and His Orchestra
32 How About You Cal Tjader Quintet 1956 Judy Garland & Mickey Rooney
33 How High the Moon Cal Tjader 1965 Frances Comstock & Alfred Drake
34 I Believe in You Anita O'Day, Cal Tjader 1962 Robert Morse, Charles Nelson Reilly and Paul Reed
35 I Can't Get Started with You Cal Tjader 1975 Bob Hope
36 I Concentrate on You Cal Tjader 1955 Douglas McPhail
37 I Didn't Know About You Cal Tjader, Mary Stallings 1961 Jo Stafford and The Pied Pipers with Paul Weston & His Orchestra
38 I Got a Right to Sing the Blues Cal Tjader 1962 Lillian Shade
39 I Hadn't Anyone Till You Cal Tjader Quartet 1959 Ray Noble and His Orchestra
40 I Love Paris Cal Tjader 1957 Lilo
41 I Love Paris Cal Tjader Quartet 1959 Lilo
42 I Say a Little Prayer Cal Tjader 1968 Dionne Warwick
43 I Should Care Cal Tjader With Strings 1958 Bob Allen and the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra
44 I Want to Be Happy The Cal Tjader Quintet 1956 Carl Fenton and His Orchestra
45 I'll Know Cal Tjader Quintet 1956 Robert Alda & Isabel Bigley
46 I'll Remember April Cal Tjader's Modern Mambo Quintet 1955 Dick Foran
47 I'm Beginning to See the Light Cal Tjader, Mary Stallings 1961 Harry James and His Orchestra
48 I'm Just a Lucky So and So Cal Tjader, Mary Stallings 1961 Duke Ellington and His Orchestra
49 I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face Cal Tjader-Stan Getz Sextet 1958 Rex Harrison
50 I've Never Been in Love Before Cal Tjader Quintet 1956 Robert Alda & Isabel Bigley
51 Ill Wind Cal Tjader 1962 Harold Arlen
52 Imagination Cal Tjader Quintet 1956 Jan Savitt & His Orchestra
53 Invitation Cal Tjader 1957 The MGM Studio Orchestra
54 It Ain't Necessarily So Cal Tjader, Mary Stallings 1961 John W. Bubbles
55 It Ain't Necessarily So Cal Tjader 1955 John W. Bubbles
56 Jeepers Creepers Cal Tjader Quintet 1956 Ethel Waters
57 Just in Time Anita O'Day, Cal Tjader 1962 Sydney Chaplin and Judy Holliday
58 Lady Madonna Cal Tjader 1969 The Beatles
59 Last Night When We Were Young Cal Tjader 1962 Lawrence Tibbett and Virginia Bruce
60 Laura Cal Tjader 1959 Emil Newman
61 Laura The Cal Tjader Quintet 1956 Emil Newman
62 Love for Sale Cal Tjader 1960 Kathryn Crawford, June Shafer, Ida Pearson and Stella Friend
63 Lover Come Back to Me Cal Tjader 1957 Evelyn Herbert
64 Lullaby of Birdland The Cal Tjader Quintet 1956 The George Shearing Quintet
65 Midnight Sun Cal Tjader's Modern Mambo Quintet 1955 Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra
66 Misty Cal Tjader 1962 Erroll Garner
67 Moonlight in Vermont Cal Tjader 1957 Billy Butterfield and His Orchestra
68 Moten Swing Cal Tjader Quintet 1956 Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra
69 Mr. Sandman Anita O'Day, Cal Tjader 1962 Vaughn Monroe with Orchestra
70 My Little Red Book Cal Tjader 1968 Manfred Mann
71 My One and Only Love Cal Tjader Quintet 1956 Frank Sinatra
72 Nica's Dream Cal Tjader 1969 The Jazz Messengers
73 Night in Tunisia Cal Tjader Quartet 1959 Sarah Vaughan with Dizzy Gillespie and His Orchestra
74 On Green Dolphin Street Cal Tjader 1962 Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra
75 Out of This World Cal Tjader 1962 Jo Stafford with Paul Weston and His Orchestra
76 Over the Rainbow Cal Tjader 1962 Judy Garland
77 Perfidia Cal Tjader 1958 Lupita Palomera con La Lira San Cristóbal
78 Samba de Orfeu Cal Tjader 1965
79 September Song Cal Tjader 1957 Walter Huston
80 Skylark Cal Tjader With Strings 1958 Gene Krupa & his Orchestra
81 Sonny Boy Cal Tjader's Modern Mambo Quintet 1955 Ruth Etting
82 Soul Bird (Tin Tin Deo) Cal Tjader 1965 James Moody and His Bop Men
83 Speak Low Cal Tjader 1962 Mary Martin & Kenny Baker
84 Spooky Cal Tjader 1969 Mike Sharpe
85 Spring Is Here Cal Tjader With Strings 1958 Dennis King & Vivienne Segal
86 Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year Anita O'Day, Cal Tjader 1962 Deanna Durbin
87 Star Eyes Cal Tjader With Strings 1958 Helen O'Connell and Bob Eberly With Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra
88 Stella by Starlight Cal Tjader With Strings 1958 Victor Young and His Orchestra
89 Stompin' at the Savoy Cal Tjader Quartet 1959 Chick Webb's Savoy Orchestra
90 Stompin' at the Savoy The Cal Tjader Quintet 1956 Chick Webb's Savoy Orchestra
91 Tenderly Cal Tjader's Modern Mambo Quintet 1955 Sarah Vaughan With George Treadwell's Orchestra
92 Thanks for the Memory Anita O'Day, Cal Tjader 1962 Bob Hope & Shirley Ross
93 That's All Cal Tjader 1965 Nat King Cole
94 The Lady Is a Tramp Cal Tjader 1956 Mitzi Green
95 The Man That Got Away Cal Tjader 1962 Judy Garland
96 The Nearness of You The Cal Tjader Quintet 1956 Chick Bullock & His Orchestra
97 The Party's Over Anita O'Day, Cal Tjader 1962 Judy Holliday
98 The Shining Sea Cal Tjader 1981 Irene Kral
99 Theme From M*A*S*H (Suicide Is Painless) Cal Tjader 1981 The Mash
100 There Will Never Be Another You Cal Tjader Quintet 1956 John Payne & Joan Merrill
101 This Can't Be Love Cal Tjader's Modern Mambo Quintet 1955 Eddie Albert & Marcy Westcott
102 This Is Always Cal Tjader 1980
103 This Masquerade Cal Tjader 1977 Leon Russell
104 Undecided The Cal Tjader Quintet 1956 John Kirby and His Onyx Club Boys
105 Walk on By Cal Tjader 1968 Dionne Warwick
106 We'll Be Together Again Cal Tjader 1959 Frankie Laine and Carl Fischer's Orchestra
107 What the World Needs Now Cal Tjader 1968 Jackie De Shannon
108 What'll I Do Cal Tjader 1975 Grace Moore & John Steel
109 When the Sun Comes Out Cal Tjader 1962 Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra
110 Where is Love? Cal Tjader 1977 Keith Hamshere
111 Why Don't You Do Right Cal Tjader, Mary Stallings 1961 Lil Green & Her Trio - Harlem Hamfats
112 Will You Still Be Mine Cal Tjader 1957 Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra
113 Windy Cal Tjader 1968 The Association
114 Yesterdays Cal Tjader 1955 Fay Templeton
115 You'll Never Get to Heaven (If You Break My Heart) Cal Tjader 1968 Dionne Warwick

Songs written by

Original songs

Title down Written by Covered by
1 Mood for Milt Cal Tjader

Releases

Audio album

Title down Performer Release date Label
1 At Grace Cathedral Cal Tjader 1977 Fantasy
2 Cal Tjader Plays Harold Arlen Cal Tjader 1962 Fantasy
3 Cal Tjader Plays, Mary Stallings Sings Cal Tjader, Mary Stallings 1961 Fantasy
4 Cal Tjader Plugs In Cal Tjader 1969 Skye
5 The Cal Tjader Quintet The Cal Tjader Quintet 1956 Fantasy
6 Cal Tjader Sounds Out Burt Bacharach Cal Tjader 1968 Skye
7 Cal Tjader-Stan Getz Sextet Cal Tjader-Stan Getz Sextet 1958 Fantasy
8 Cal Tjader's Concert by the Sea Cal Tjader 1959 Fantasy
9 Cal Tjader's Latin Concert Cal Tjader 1958 Fantasy
10 Concert on the Campus Cal Tjader 1960 Fantasy
11 Gozame! Pero Ya... Cal Tjader 1980 Concord Jazz Picante
12 Guarabe Cal Tjader 1977 Fantasy
13 Hip Vibrations Cal Tjader 1968 Verve
14 In a Latin Bag Cal Tjader 1962 Verve
15 Jazz at the Blackhawk Cal Tjader Quartet 1959 Fantasy
16 Last Night When We Were Young Cal Tjader 1975 Fantasy
17 Latin for Lovers Cal Tjader With Strings 1958 Fantasy
18 Latin Kick Cal Tjader 1957 Fantasy
19 Mambo With Tjader Cal Tjader's Modern Mambo Quintet 1955 Fantasy
20 Más ritmo caliente Cal Tjader 1958 Fantasy
21 The Prophet Cal Tjader 1969 Verve
22 The Shining Sea Cal Tjader 1981 Concord Jazz
23 Soul Bird: Whiffenpoof Cal Tjader 1965 Verve
24 Time for 2 Anita O'Day, Cal Tjader 1962 Verve
25 Tjader Plays Jazz Cal Tjader Quintet 1956 Fantasy
26 Tjader Plays Mambo Cal Tjader 1955 Fantasy
27 Tjader Plays Mambo [12"] Cal Tjader 1956 Fantasy

Tributes

Title Performer Release date down Label
1 For Hamp, Red, Bags and Cal Gary Burton 2001 Concord Jazz

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