Heat Wave (Cal Tjader and Carmen McRae album)

1982 studio album by Cal Tjader and Carmen McRae

Heat Wave

Studio album by

Cal Tjader and Carmen McRae

Released| January 1982
Recorded| Coast Recorders, San Francisco, California, US
Genre| Latin jazz, vocal jazz
Length| 40:50
Label| Concord Jazz
CJ-189 (12" LP)
CCD-4189-2 (CD)
Producer| Carl Jefferson
Cal Tjader chronology
| A fuego vivo
(1981)  | Heat Wave
(1982)  | Good Vibes
(1984)

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Carmen McRae chronology
| Recorded Live at Bubba's
(1981)  | Heat Wave
(1982)  | You're Looking at Me
(1984)

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Heat Wave is a 1982 studio album by vibraphonist Cal Tjader and jazz singer Carmen McRae. Tjader died four months after the completion of Heat Wave, it was his final recording.[1]

The album was arranged by pianists Mark Levine and Marshall Otwell. McRae and Tjader did not get on well during the recording, and Tjader later overdubbed his parts without McRae present. McRae chose to sing "Besame Mucho" in its original Spanish language lyrics, and Willie Bobo helped her with the pronunciation.[2]

Heat Wave peaked at 25 on Billboard's Jazz Albums chart.[1]

## Reception

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Professional ratingsReview scores

Source| Rating
AllMusic| [1]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings| [4]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide| [3]

AllMusic awarded the album four stars and reviewer Scott Yanow said that "the potentially exciting combination does not really come off that well...The musicians had little to do. McRae sounds OK in the Latin setting, but does not uplift the diverse material...and the effort overall is somewhat forgettable and disappointing".[1]

## Track listing

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1. "Heat Wave" (Irving Berlin) – 3:07
2. "All in Love Is Fair" (Stevie Wonder) – 4:27
3. "Besame Mucho" (Sunny Skylar, Consuelo Velázquez) – 5:26
4. "Evil Ways" (Sonny Henry) – 5:15
5. "Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me" (Duke Ellington, Bob Russell) – 3:12
6. "Love" (Ralph Blane, Hugh Martin) – 3:06
7. "Upside Down (Flor de Lis)" (Djavan, Regina Wernech) – 4:33
8. "The Visit" (Ivan Lins, Vítor Martins, Wernech) – 4:13
9. "Speak Low" (Ogden Nash, Kurt Weill) – 4:51
10. "Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing" (Wonder) – 3:42

## Personnel

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Performance

* Cal Tjader – vibraphone
* Carmen McRae – vocals
* Marshall Otwell – piano, arranger
* Mark Levine – piano, arranger
* Rob Fisher – bass
* Vince Lateano – drums
* Poncho Sanchez – congas, percussion
* Ramon Banda – percussion, timbales
* Al Bent – trombone
* Mike Heathman – trombone

Production

* Phil Edwards – engineer
* Leonard Feather – liner notes
* Carl Jefferson – producer

## References

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1. ^ a b c d "Heat Wave". AllMusic. Retrieved February 24, 2015.
2. ^ S. Duncan Reid (23 August 2013). Cal Tjader: The Life and Recordings of the Man Who Revolutionized Latin Jazz. McFarland. pp. 233–. ISBN 978-0-7864-3535-7.
3. ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 138\. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
4. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 987\. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.

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Carmen McRae

Discography

Studio
albums|

* A Foggy Day with Carmen McRae
* Carmen McRae
* By Special Request
* Torchy
* Blue Moon
* After Glow
* Mad About the Man
* Carmen for Cool Ones
* Birds of a Feather
* Book of Ballads
* When You're Away
* Something to Swing About
* Carmen McRae Sings Lover Man and Other Billie Holiday Classics
* Something Wonderful
* Bittersweet
* Second to None
* Haven't We Met?
* Alfie
* For Once in My Life
* Portrait of Carmen
* The Sound of Silence
* Just a Little Lovin'
* I Am Music
* November Girl
* It Takes a Whole Lot of Human Feeling
* Ms. Jazz
* Can't Hide Love
* I'm Coming Home Again
* Heat Wave
* You're Lookin' at Me (A Collection of Nat King Cole Songs)
* Any Old Time
* Carmen Sings Monk
* Sarah: Dedicated to You
* Dream of Life

Duet
albums|

* Boy Meets Girl with Sammy Davis Jr.
* Porgy and Bess with Sammy Davis Jr.
* Two for the Road with George Shearing
* The Carmen McRae – Betty Carter Duets

Live
albums|

* Tonight Only!
* Carmen McRae in London
* Take Five Live
* Live at Sugar Hill
* Woman Talk
* Carmen McRae
* The Great American Songbook
* As Time Goes By: Live at the Dug
* Live and Doin' It
* Live at Century Plaza
* At the Great American Music Hall
* Ronnie Scott's Presents Carmen McRae 'Live'
* Jazz Gala 79
* Recorded Live at Bubba's
* Fine and Mellow: Live at Birdland West
* For Lady Day
* Ralph Gleason's Jazz Casual

Compilation
albums|

* This Is Carmen McRae
* Carmen's Gold
* Velvet Soul
* The Greatest of Carmen McRae

Related articles|

* Performing Music from The Subterraneans
* The Real Ambassadors
* Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday at Newport

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Cal Tjader

Albums|

* Cal Tjader-Stan Getz Sextet (with, Stan Getz, 1958)
* West Side Story (1961)
* Cal Tjader Plays Harold Arlen (1962)
* Cal Tjader Plays the Contemporary Music of Mexico and Brazil (1962)
* Time for 2 (with Anita O'Day, 1962)
* Several Shades of Jade (1963)
* Soña Libré (1963)
* Breeze from the East (1964)
* Warm Wave (1964)
* Soul Sauce (1965)
* Soul Bird: Whiffenpoof (1965)
* Soul Burst (1966)
* El Sonido Nuevo (1966)
* Breathe Easy (1978)
* Here (1979)
* Heat Wave (with Carmen McRae, 1982)

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