Thanks for this. I swear the dullness and boring-ness (?) of a xylophone is inversely proportional to… if it accompanies jazz. Lol.
I don’t know if this was 100% english but, I never really liked xylophones, but xylophone and jazz goes so well together! I just listened to this and will find other Cal Tjader albums to listen to.
@LeDechaine Nice piece. fyi that is a vibraphone. Metal bars with rotating “fans” in the tubes instead of wood bars like a xylophone or marimba.
Some info for fun.
Used often in Jazz, as you see.
I cannot believe no one has recommended:
One of two albums that was rated 5* along with Mingus, Black Saint and the Sinner Lady.
Also:
For a very fun album,
And for a pianist that made
And for a ragtime pianist so good that a number of musicians stopped playing for a time or switched instruments, and of whom Horowitz once said he would give up the piano if this musician took up Classical:
Oh, so it was not a joke when someone mentioned “Cal Tjader: Vibes”, lol. Thanks for the info. 
One of my favorites to spend an afternoon listening to. Love These two and what each has put out since.
This is 
Last night I wished the Klipsch The Fives I have been trying out for the past few weeks bon voyage back to Amazon with another classic and favorite jazz album: Blues In Orbit:
damn good thread! posting for sub
Ooooooo 
these are great musicians, and it’s apparently very well recorded. Sharing the link for the entire CD instead. Listening. 
(Album: “Jazz Straight Up”, 2001)
Lee Morgan…The Sidewinder.
Curtis Fuller Quintet, “Blues-ette” is some real smooth laid-back classic jazz I hadn’t heard of till recently…
I have, and really like, this CD. Sorry for the semi-not-safe-for-work CD Cover. 
I’m taking a bit of a stretch here and recommending something more wild. Closer to Funk, but still has some technical jazz trappings. Especially with Sam Gendel in there laying the smack down on that sax.
I run hot and cold with jazz. Mostly cold. With one exception: Nubya Garcia. I have mentioned her before, but I am hooked on her recent album. It is in my regular rotation with my rock music.
I’ve got a whole bunch of cool modern jazz and fusion YouTube videos in mind that I’d like to paste here like everyone else has done but I’m old and fairly computer illiterate…lol
Can someone guide me and I’ll drop some cool videos and full YouTube albums…
Thanks…
You just have to paste the links here, on a new line. 
like
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZO8yzMoWdI
And it will just show the video here automatically. I actually had to do something different to only show the link. Otherwise, if you only press “enter” and then copy-paste a link, it shows the video, like that:
For my vinyl brothers out there.
BlueNote has been on fire with their Blue Note Classic Series and Tone Poet Series.
If you’re just getting into jazz and are into vinyl…just buy them.
In the past few months…
Sonny Clark - Cool Struttin
Jimmy Smith - Back at the Chicken Shack
Hank Mobley - Soul Station
Art Blakey - Moanin
Joe Henderson - Page One
Cannonball Adderley - Something Else (its a Miles album)
Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil
Horace Silver - Songs for My Father
McCoy Tyner - The Real McCoy
Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder
The Sonny Clark, Hank Mobley, and Lee Morgan are the real standouts from a sound quality perspective. Exemplar copies of these albums. Art Blakey and Horace Silver are great places to go on that next tier, as those albums are all legit all-time sessions.
But, all from the Blue Note Classic Series of late and all are legit bangers with some of them getting damn near close to the 33’s from MusicMattersJazz that sell for hundreds at this point. When BlueNote has a sale, those are the best $18 you can spend on an record, IMO.
The Tone Poet series, a step up in quality and presentation (great gatefolds with session photos) has had some bangers lately, too. Deeper cuts from the artists, though. These, too, are damn near MusicMattersJazz 33RPM quality.
Curtis Amy - KATANGA!
Art Blakey - The Witch Doctor
Dexter Gordon - One Flight Up
Andrew Hill - Passing Ships
all recently released and sound and look incredible.
Also, Analog Productions will be releasing some choice titles throughout the rest of the year, plenty of stuff from Coltrane, Duke Ellington and Charles Mingus. Keep a look out on that. Next album from Blue Note Classic series is Dexter Gordon’s GO! session and there are cuts from McCoy Tyner and Sonny Clark from Tone Poets.
Personally, when it comes to jazz music…I just buy the record. But, these are good places to see recommendations, too.
Great time to be into jazz and into jazz vinyl.