Cal Tjader Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Cal Tjader Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Callen Radcliffe Tjader, Jr. (/ˈdÊ'eɪdÉ™r/ JAY-dÉ™r; July 16, 1925

â€" May 5, 1982) was an American Latin jazz musician, known[by whom?]

as the most successful non-Latino Latin musician. He explored other

jazz idioms, even as he continued to perform the music of Cuba, the

Caribbean, Mexico and Latin America.Tjader played the vibraphone

primarily, but was accomplished on the drums, bongos, congas, timpani,

and the piano. He worked with many musicians from several cultures. He

is often[quantify] linked to the development of Latin rock and acid

jazz. Although fusing jazz with Latin music is often categorized[by

whom?] as "Latin jazz" (or, earlier, "Afro-Cuban jazz"), Tjader's

works swung freely between both styles. His Grammy award in 1980 for

his album La Onda Va Bien capped off a career that spanned over forty

years.Callen Radcliffe Tjader, Jr. was born 16 July 1925 in St. Louis,

Missouri, to touring Swedish American vaudevillians. His father tap

danced and his mother played piano, a husband-wife team going from

city to city with their troupe to earn a living. When he was two,

Tjader's parents settled in San Mateo, California, and opened a dance

studio. His mother (who dreamed of becoming a concert pianist)

instructed him in classical piano and his father taught him to tap

dance. He performed around the Bay Area as "Tjader Junior," a

tap-dancing wunderkind. He performed a brief non-speaking role dancing

alongside Bill "Bojangles" Robinson in the film The White of the Dark

Cloud of Joy.He joined a Dixieland band and played around the Bay

Area. At age sixteen, he entered a Gene Krupa drum solo contest,

making it to the finals and ultimately winning by playing "Drum

Boogie." The win was overshadowed by that morning's event: Japanese

planes had bombed Pearl Harbor.
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