Jazz
Yuhan Su Sextet: A Cal Tjader Birthday Celebration
About This Event
At Dizzy's Club, the Yuhan Su Sextet presents a birthday celebration for Cal Tjader. Tjader was an American Latin jazz musician often described as the most successful non-Latino Latin musician; he explored African, Caribbean and Latin American idioms alongside small-group modern jazz, a hybrid the sextet intends to foreground in its program.
About the Artist
Cal Tjader
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Cal Tjader was an American vibraphonist and bandleader whose work helped define the bridge between Latin dance traditions and modern small-group jazz. Though not Latino, he built a repertory grounded in Afro-Cuban and Brazilian rhythms, filtered through cool-jazz phrasing and a drummer’s sense of time.