Cal Tjader Plays the Contemporary Music of Mexico and Brazil

Cal Tjader Plays the Contemporary Music of Mexico and Brazil
Studio album by Cal Tjader
Released	1962
Recorded	March 5–7, 1962
Genre	Latin Jazz
Length	37:08
Label	Verve
Producer	Creed Taylor
Cal Tjader chronology
The Cal Tjader Quartet/Saturday Night/Sunday Night at the Blackhawk, San Francisco (1962) Cal Tjader Plays the Contemporary Music of Mexico and Brazil (1962) Time for Two (1962)

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Cal Tjader Plays the Contemporary Music of Mexico and Brazil is a 1962 studio album by Cal Tjader.

Track listing

1. "Vai Querer" (Laurindo Almeida, Fernando Lobo) – 3:03
2. "Qué Tristeza" (Mario Ruiz Armengol) – 2:51
3. "Meditação (Meditation)" (Newton Mendonça, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Norman Gimbel) – 3:32
4. "Soñé" (Armengol) – 3:09
5. "Se é Tarde, Me Perdoa" (Ronaldo Bôscoli, Carlos Lyra) – 2:48
6. "Não Diga Nada" (Carlita, Noacy Mercenes) – 2:50
7. "Silenciosa" (Armengol) – 3:28
8. "Elizete" (Clare Fischer) – 2:30
9. "Imagen" (Armengol) – 2:40
10. "Tentaço do Incoveniente" (Manoel Da Conceição, Augusto Mesquita) – 2:33
11. "Preciosa" (Armengol) – 2:42
12. "Chôro e Batuque" (Almeida) – 5:02

Personnel

• Freddie Schreiber - double bass
• Changuito - conga
• Laurindo Almeida - guitar
• Johnny Rae - percussion, drums, timbales
• Milt Holland - percussion
• Clare Fischer - piano, arranger
• Gene Cipriano - woodwind
• Bernard Fleischer
• Paul Horn
• John Lowe
• Don Shelton
• Cal Tjader - vibraphone
• Ardeen DeCamp - vocals