Anita O’Day and Cal Tjader – Time For Two (1962)

1. Thanks for the Memory
2. It Shouldn’t Happen to a Dream
3. Just in Time
4. Under a Blanket of Blue
5. That’s Your Red Wagon
6. Peel Me a Grape
7. An Occasional Man
8. The Party’s Over
9. I Believe in You
10. Mr. Sandman
11. Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year
12. I’m Not Supposed to Be Blue Blues

Anita O’Day – vocals
Cal Tjader – vibraphone, drums
Johnny Rae – vibraphone, drums
Freddy Schreiber – bass 
Bob Corwin – piano
Lonnie Hewitt – piano

In another experiment, producer Creed Taylor teams O'Day with the alternately Latin and bop-grounded quartet of vibraphonist Cal Tjader -- and he gets some amazing performances from this team. O'Day sounds as if she is delighted with Tjader's polished Afro-Cuban grooves, gliding easily over the rhythms, toying with the tunes, transforming even a tune so locked into its trite time as "Mr. Sandman" into a stimulating excursion. Indeed, O'Day's freewheeling phrasing becomes downright sexy on "That's Your Red Wagon" and Dave Frishberg's delicious parody of a spoiled honeybunch, "Peel Me a Grape." Also, thanks to Taylor's obsession with good engineering and tasteful applications of reverb, O'Day's voice sounds much fuller and more attractive in his productions than on her Norman Granz-produced albums. ---Richard S. Ginell, Rovi

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