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Personnel: Cal Tjader (vibraphone, timbales, cincerro); Clare Fischer (conductor, celeste); Stan Getz, Brew Moore (tenor saxophone); Dick Collins, Al Porcino, Charlie Walp, John Howell (trumpet); Jerome Richardson, Paul Horn, Jose Lozano (flute); Manuel Duran (piano, claves); Lonnie Hewitt, Vince Guaraldi, Eddie Cano (piano); Eddie Duran (guitar); Carlos Duran, Victor Venegas, Al McKibbon, Scott LaFaro, Red Mitchell (bass); Willie Bobo (drums, timbales); Billy Higgins, Shelly Manne (drums); Bayardo Velarde (congas, bongos, timbales, cencerro); Armandp Peraza (congos, bongos); Edgard Rosales (congos, maracas); Mongo Santamaria (congas, percussion); Luis Kant, Luis Miranda (congas); Armando "Cuco" Sanchez (timbales). Includes liner notes by Saul Soss and Julie Sperr. Digitally remastered by Joe Tarantino (1995, Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, California). Personnel: Cal Tjader (vibraphone, timbales, percussion); Eddie Duran (guitar); Jose Lozano, Jerome Richardson, Paul Horn (flute); Stan Getz , Brew Moore (tenor saxophone); Dick Collins, Charlie Walp, John Howell , Al Porcino (trumpet); Manuel Duran (piano, claves); Eddie Cano, Lonnie Hewitt, Vince Guaraldi (piano); Clare Fischer (celesta); Willie Bobo (drums, timbales); Shelly Manne, Billy Higgins (drums); Bayardo Velarde (congas, bongos, timbales); Mongo Santamaria (congas, bongos, percussion); Armando Peraza (congas, bongos); Luis Kant, Luis Miranda (congas); Armando Sanchez (timbales). Audio Remasterer: Joe Tarantino. Liner Note Author: Saul Soss. Arranger: Clare Fischer. This CD collection is a great improvement over the original, as it doubles the length of the original ten-track selection with ten more tracks from Cal Tjader's Greatest Hits, Vol. 2. The absence of session dates in the liner notes is an uncharacteristic annoyance, but what you basically need to know is that it's a 20-track distillation of the 26 records Tjader made for Fantasy over a nine-year period in the 1950s and 1960s. It's prime Latin jazz wit
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