Soul Sauce

by Cal Tjader

Soul Sauce cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1965
  • Label: Verve
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 37:03
  • Community rating: 4.01/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Driven by its massively successful, infectious title track, 'Soul Sauce' is a quintessential document of the mid-1960s Latin jazz and boogaloo craze. Cal Tjader's crystalline vibraphone playing rides effortlessly atop deep, complex Afro-Cuban polyrhythms provided by a stellar rhythm section featuring Armando Peraza. The album helped bring Latin jazz rhythms into the mainstream American pop consciousness.

Genres

Descriptors: instrumental, acoustic, rhythmic, percussive, melodic, ensemble

Tracklist

  1. The Whiffenpoof Song (2:02)
  2. Soul Bird (Tin Tin Deo) (2:38)
  3. How High The Moon (4:06)
  4. That's All (2:02)
  5. Soul Motion (3:08)
  6. Reza (4:04)
  7. The Prophet (2:58)
  8. Sonny Boy (3:30)
  9. Doxy (4:19)
  10. Samba de Orfeu (1:59)
  11. Shiny Stockings (2:31)
  12. Daddy Wong Legs (3:41)

Credits

  • Cal Tjader - primary artist, leader, vibraphone [vibes], written-by
  • John Hilliard - bass
  • Johnny Rae - drums
  • Alberto Valdes - percussion
  • Armando Peraza - percussion, written-by
  • Lonnie Hewitt - piano, written-by
  • Willie Bobo - percussion
  • Chano Pozo - written-by

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