Sold Date: July 3, 2020
Start Date: June 6, 2020
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Cal Tjader ~ Soul Sauce ~ '65 Verve V6-8614 Stereo. Rare Salsa, Merengue, Latin Jazz,  DANCE

This is the Original Verve recording from 1965 and shows that it has 'mgm records-a division of metro-Goldwyn-mayer, inc.'  on label.

Cover is near mint, in plastic. Record is mint minus with some light pressing haze.  Barely notice any noise in or between cuts. Plays excellent. Lively dance tempos. 

Lonnie Hewitt, Willie Bobo, Kenny Burrell, Donald Byrd, Armando Pereza

"Soul Sauce is one of the highlights from Tjader's catalog with its appealing mixture of mambo, samba, bolero, and boogaloo styles. Tjader's core band -- long-time piano player Lonnie Hewitt, drummer Johnny Rae and percussionist's Willie Bobo and Armanda Peraza -- starts things off with a cooled down version of Dizzy Gillespie and Chano Pozo's Latin jazz classic "Guachi Guaro (Soul Sauce)". With the help of guitarist Kenny Burrell, trumpeter Donald Byrd, and tenor saxophonist Jimmy Heath they offer up a lively version of Mongo Santamaria's "Afro Blue." Sticking to his music's "Mambo Without a Migraine" reputation, though, Tjader's musicians keep things fairly calm, especially on Latinized ballads such as Billy May's "Somewhere In the Night" and on midtempo swingers like "Tanya." On Soul Sauce, Tjader had perfected a middle ground between the brisk, collegiate mambo of his early Fantasy records and the mood-heavy sound of Asian themed albums like Breeze From the East. In the process, he dodged the "Latin lounge" label with an album full of smart arrangements, subtly provocative vibe solos, and intricate percussion backing."

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