San Francisco Moods

How appropriate for me to have found this record while digging in a basement in San Francisco all weekend.  Cal Tjader, one of the grooviest jazz cats to make the scene, shows some San Francisco love while also taking some influence from the beat generation a la 1958.  Rare and beautiful, this is the kind of find that keeps me going.  It was a very productive trip, so i'll be posting a number of choice items that I managed to find up there, including afro beat, calypso, jazz, and of course a few beat poetry discs.

I couldn't find anything from this album, but the below track was sampled by Gangstarr so some of you might recognize it (and its importance in hip hop):