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Cal Tjader Plays the Contemporary Music of Mexico and Brazil
Studio album by Cal Tjader
Released	1962
Recorded	March 5–7, 1962
Genre	Latin jazz, bossa nova
Length	37:08
Label	Verve
Producer	Creed Taylor
Cal Tjader chronology
The Cal Tjader Quartet/Saturday Night/Sunday Night at the Blackhawk, San Francisco (1962) Cal Tjader Plays the Contemporary Music of Mexico and Brazil (1962) Time for Two (1962)

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Cal Tjader Plays the Contemporary Music of Mexico and Brazil is a 1962 studio album by Cal Tjader.^[2]

Track listing

1. "Vai Querer" (Laurindo Almeida, Fernando Lobo) – 3:03
2. "Qué Tristeza" (Mario Ruiz Armengol) – 2:51
3. "Meditação (Meditation)" (Newton Mendonça, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Norman Gimbel) – 3:32
4. "Soñé" (Armengol) – 3:09
5. "Se é Tarde, Me Perdoa" (Ronaldo Bôscoli, Carlos Lyra) – 2:48
6. "Não Diga Nada" (Carlita, Noacy Mercenes) – 2:50
7. "Silenciosa" (Armengol) – 3:28
8. "Elizete" (Clare Fischer) – 2:30
9. "Imagen" (Armengol) – 2:40
10. "Tentaço do Incoveniente" (Manoel Da Conceição, Augusto Mesquita) – 2:33
11. "Preciosa" (Armengol) – 2:42
12. "Chôro e Batuque" (Almeida) – 5:02

Personnel

Tracks 1, 3, 5, 6, 8, 10, and 12:

• Cal Tjader - vibraphone
• Laurindo Almeida - guitar
• Clare Fischer - piano, woodwind, arranger
• Freddie Schreiber - bass
• Johnny Rae - drums
• Milt Holland - percussion
• Gene Cipriano - woodwind
• Bernard Fleischer - woodwind
• Paul Horn - woodwind
• John Lowe - woodwind
• Don Shelton - woodwind

Tracks 2, 4, 7, 9, and 11:

• Cal Tjader - vibraphone
• Clare Fischer - piano, woodwind, arranger
• Freddie Schreiber - bass
• Johnny Rae - timbales
• Changuito - conga
• Paul Horn - woodwind
• John Lowe - woodwind
• Don Shelton - woodwind
• Ardeen DeCamp - vocals

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