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Its title track, a Dizzy Gillespie cover Tjader had been toying with for over a decade, was a radio hit (hitting the top 20 on New York's influential pop music station WMCA in May 1965), and landed the album on Billboard's Top 50 Albums of 1965.
The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow stated, "El Sonido Nuevo is a popular collaboration between vibraphonist Cal Tjader and pianist Eddie Palmieri (who provided the arrangements). Despite the claims of greatness expressed in the liners ("a landmark in the history of Latin jazz"), much of the music is actually quite lightweight although enjoyable ...
The Allmusic review by Stephen Cook awarded the album 4½ stars, stating: "Soul Sauce is one of the highlights from Tjader's catalog with its appealing mixture of mambo, samba, bolero, and boogaloo styles... an album full of smart arrangements, subtly provocative vibe solos, and intricate percussion backing."
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
The songs — "Chopsticks Mambo", "Vibra-Tharpe", "Three Little Words" and "Lullaby of the Leaves" [7] — were released in December 1953 on the 10-inch LP record, The Cal Tjader Trio. [6] By summer 1954, Guaraldi had formed his first trio, with Eddie Duran (guitar) and Dean Reilly (double bass), [ 8 ] and regularly performed in the house band ...
Cal Tjader chronology; Soul Sauce (1965) Soul Bird: Whiffenpoof ... The Whiffenpoof Song" (Tod Galloway, Meade Minnigerode, George S. Pomeroy) - 2:04
Vibraphonist Cal Tjader pn his 1953 album The Cal Tjader Trio; Maurice Chevalier recorded a version and this was included in the album The Very Best of Chevalier (1964) [7] Stan Getz - from Award Winner: Stan Getz (Verve 1957) Patti Page included the song in her 1959 album 3 Little Words [8]
Stewart Mason reviewed the album for Allmusic and wrote that of Tjader and Schifrin's collaboration that it was "...no more traditional Asian music than Tjader's similar albums from this period are traditional Latin American music, but the pair wisely avoids the standard clichés of Asian music (no smashing gongs after every musical phrase or melodies that sound like rejects from The Mikado).