What are you listening to in 2021 and why might anyone be interested

NigelB · October 20, 2021, 4:22pm

Ooo-err missus, titter ye not….

Steve_S · October 20, 2021, 4:23pm

Lady Blackbird | Black Acid Soul | 2021
Because she has the best new voice I have heard for a while and it’s one of my favourite albums of the year getting yet another airing.

NigelB · October 20, 2021, 4:25pm

Well said Steve.

Drikus · October 20, 2021, 4:31pm

Dreadatthecontrols · October 20, 2021, 4:41pm

Time for a spot of Mambo!

Cal Tjaders Modern Mambo Quintet - Mambo With Tjader (OJC Fantasy LP)

Mrs Dread’s joining me on the Leatherette Love Seat havent got any Martini, Stella and a Hophead

Mambo with Tjader Review

by Rovi Staff

Mambo with Tjader was one of vibraphonist and composer Cal Tjader’s first major recordings. Fascinated with the rhythms and atmospheres of Latin music, Tjader was one of the first musicians to successfully fuse South American musical styles with straight-ahead jazz. In retrospect, the lush, laid-back, vibes-heavy groove of Tjader’s inventions anticipates the “lounge” music of the '50s and '60s – offering the sort of soft, swinging soundtrack appropriate for the consumption of dry martinis on leatherette love seats.

But Mambo with Tjader is valuable for more than mere kitsch factor. Over the course of the album’s 12 tracks, a rich tapestry of tropical percussion works through three rhythmic models – the mambo, the cha-cha, and the bolero. Overlaid with jazz structures and Tjader’s easygoing vibes playing, this set is a tasty cross-section of early Tropicalia. While the disc lacks the hot salsa that would characterize El Sonido Nuevo or the large-scale orchestrations of the composer’s collaborations with Lalo Schifrin, Mambo with Tjader is a vintage exploration of the fusion of jazz and Latin music.

Nice!