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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 75. Chapters: Baby Dodds, Cal Tjader, Guy Warren, Stewie Speer, Susie Ibarra, Airto Moreira, John Pochee, Kenny Clarke, Phil Seamen, Stoyan Yankoulov, Joe Morello, Othello Molineaux, Michael S. Smith, Trilok Gurtu, Ebel Perrelli, Jeff "Tain" Watts, Steve Reid, Marco Minnemann, Chick Webb, Stefan Pasborg, Al Foster, Billy Martin, Gino Robair, Future Man, John Rae, Don Moye, List of jazz drummers, Vlad Popescu, Alex Riel, Lewis Nash, Antonio Sanchez, Zutty Singleton, Manu Katché, John Stevens, Spike Wells, Tiger Onitsuka, Dannie Richmond, Tubby Hall, John Sangster, Ronald Shannon Jackson, Paul Peress, Mani Neumeier, Stan Levey, Bobby Graham, Candido Camero, Steve Davis, Paolo Vinaccia, Marcin Jahr, Tani Tabbal, Pierre Favre, Art Taylor, Karriem Riggins, Torstein Lofthus, Tiny Bradshaw, Paleka, Bartlomiej Oles, Salah Ragab, Ferenc Nemeth, Tony Buck, Fred Braceful, Edward Vesala, Adam Nussbaum, Jeff Williams, George T. Simon, Daniel Humair, Louis Moholo, Tom Stacks, Clifford Jarvis, Al Harewood, Adam Cruz, Buzzy Drootin, Günter Müller, Ray Bauduc, Denis Charles, Phil Howard, Tom Rainey, Franklin Kiermyer, Manfred Hausleitner, Herlin Riley, Ragbaby Stephens, Maurice Purtill, Don Mumford, Jack Noren, Hideo Shiraki, Bill Dowdy, Kazimierz Jonkisz, Anthony Brown, John Hollenbeck, Gerry Hemingway, Stu Martin, Colin Bailey, Aldo Romano, William McKinney, Lud Gluskin, Dominik Burkhalter, Horacio Hernandez, Jarle Vespestad, Kenny Washington, Gene Calderazzo, Jon Christensen, Osie Johnson, Jackie Dougan, John G. Blowers, Jr., Bobby Orr, Børre Dalhaug, Newman Taylor Baker, Chris Karan, Tomasz Losowski, Geoff Bowen, Larry Ritchie, O'Neill Spencer, Guillermo E. Brown, Whit Dickey, Remi Kabaka. Excerpt: Callen Radcliffe Tjader, Jr. a.k.a. Cal Tjader (July 16, 1925-May 5, 1982) was a Latin jazz musician, though he also explored various other jazz idioms. Unlike other American jazz musicians who experimented with the music from Cuba, the Caribbean, and Latin America, he never abandoned it, performing it until his death. Tjader primarily played the vibraphone. He was also accomplished on the drums, bongos, congas, timpani, and the piano. He worked with numerous musicians from several cultures. He is often linked to the development of Latin Rock and Acid Jazz. Although fusing jazz with Latin music is often categorized as "Latin Jazz" (or, earlier, "Afro-Cuban Jazz"), Tjader's output swung freely between both styles. He won a Grammy in 1980 for his album La Onda Va Bien, capping off a career that spanned over forty years. Callen Radcliffe Tjader, Jr. (last name pronounced "chay-der") was born 16 July 1925 in St. Louis, Missouri to touring Swedish American vaudevillians. His father tap danced and his mother played piano, a husband-wife team going from city to city with their troupe to earn a living. (His grandfather was Dr. Anton William Tjader, a notable Nevada surgeon mentioned in Mark Twain's Early Tales and Sketches.) At the age of two, Tjader's parents settled in San Mateo, California and opened a dance studio. His mother (who dreamed of becoming a concert pianist) instructed him in classical piano and his father taught him to tap dance. He performed around the Bay Area as "Tjader Junior", a tap-dancing wunderkind. He performed a brief non-speaking role dancing alongside Bill "Bojangles" Robinson in the film The White of the Dark Cloud of Joy. He joined a Dixieland band and played around the Bay Area. At age sixt...