

Vibraphonist/bandleader Cal Tjader applied his Latin tinge to some truly offbeat material. He sturdily reinforces Mary Stallings' "Mighty Rumblin' Blues" and helps Anita O'Day dial up the sex appeal for the Caribbean-flavoured showtune "An Occasional Man". He lays down acid jazz's silky foundation in 1968's "Solar Heat" and slips into Burt Bacharach's urbane James Bond zone for "Moneypenny Goes for Broke".