Time for Two

Time for Two

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by Richard S. GinellIn 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.