| Soña Libré | ||||
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| Released | 1963 | |||
| Recorded | January 28–30, 1963 in Los Angeles, California | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 31:37 | |||
| Label | Verve V6-8531 [1] | |||
| Producer | Creed Taylor | |||
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Soña Libré is a 1962 album by Cal Tjader. [2]
| Soña Libré | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | 1963 | |||
| Recorded | January 28–30, 1963 in Los Angeles, California | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 31:37 | |||
| Label | Verve V6-8531 [1] | |||
| Producer | Creed Taylor | |||
| Cal Tjader chronology | ||||
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Soña Libré is a 1962 album by Cal Tjader. [2]
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Billboard magazine reviewed the album in their May 25, 1963 issue and wrote that on the album Tjader has "a solid collection of tracks that have swing and a quiet insistent sound". [3]
Vincent Anthony Guaraldi was an American jazz pianist best known for composing music for animated television adaptations of the Peanuts comic strip. His compositions for this series included their signature melody "Linus and Lucy" and the holiday standard "Christmas Time Is Here". He is also known for his performances on piano as a member of Cal Tjader's 1950s ensembles and for his own solo career. His 1962 composition "Cast Your Fate to the Wind" became a radio hit and won a Grammy Award in 1963 for Best Original Jazz Composition. He died of a sudden heart attack on February 6, 1976, at age 47, moments after concluding a nightclub performance in Menlo Park, California.
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Cal Tjader Plays Harold Arlen is an album by American vibraphonist Cal Tjader, five of its 11 tracks arranged by Tjader's longtime colleague Clare Fischer. Recorded in June 1960 and released in February 1962 on the Fantasy label, it would be reissued on CD – together with Tjader's similarly semi-orchestral 1961 LP, West Side Story – on July 30, 2002, as Cal Tjader Plays Harold Arlen and West Side Story.
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