Drum artist Cal Tjader

Cal Tjader

Living place: Missouri

Birthday: 16-7-1925 (99 years old)

Population of US 1925: 115,829,000

Global rank: #68287

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Who is Drum artist Cal Tjader?
During his four-decade musical career, this famous vibraphone player, drummer, and pianist contributed greatly to the development of the acid jazz and Latin rock genres. He received a 1980 Grammy Award for an album titled La Onda Va Bien.
In 1954, he founded his Cal Tjader Modern Mambo Quintet, a group that included pianist Manuel Duran Duran and bassist Carlos.
 
 

Young / Before famous

After serving in World War II as a United States Army doctor, he attended the G. I. Bill at San Jose State College and San Francisco State College.

Family life info

Born in St. Louis, Missouri, he grew up primarily in San Mateo, California, Sweden, his cabaret performer parents.

Close relationship

Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Drum artist Cal Tjader?
During his college years, he met jazz pianist Dave Brubeck. The two eventually formed the Dave Brubeck Octet, a musical group that included saxophonist Paul Desmond.

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When was Drum artist Cal Tjader born?
Cal Tjader birthday 16-7-1925 (at the age of 99).
Where is Drum artist Cal Tjader's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Cal Tjader was born in Missouri, . is a Drum artist, whose Zodiac is Cancer, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Ox. Cal Tjader's global rank is 68287 and whose rank is 527 in list of famous Drum artist. Population of US in 1925 is about 115,829,000 persons.
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Events in 1925 and 16-7

Events in US in the birth year of Cal Tjader

  • Nellie Tayloe Ross takes office as governor of Wyoming (Jan. 5). She is the first woman governor in U.S. history.
  • Tennessee schoolteacher John T. Scopes is arrested (May 5) for teaching the theory of evolution, forbidden by state law.
  • Worst tornado in U.S. history hit Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana: 689 deaths.
  • Al Capone takes over the Chicago bootlegging racket.

Birthday Cal Tjader (16-7) in history

  • Day 16-7 year 1790: The District of Columbia was established as the seat of the United States government.
  • Day 16-7 year 1918: Russia's Czar Nicholas II and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks.
  • Day 16-7 year 1935: The first parking meters were installed in Oklahoma City.
  • Day 16-7 year 1945: The first atomic bomb was tested in Alamogordo, N.M.
  • Day 16-7 year 1951: J. D. Salinger's novel Catcher in the Rye was published.
  • Day 16-7 year 1969: Apollo 11 took off on the first manned flight to the moon.
  • Day 16-7 year 1979: Saddam Hussein became president of Iraq.
  • Day 16-7 year 1999: John F. Kennedy, Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette, and her sister Lauren, died in a plane crash near Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.
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