Kitty & Mr. C's Enchanted Tiki Hut Show

If you’re anything like us, you enjoy a stiff margarita with plenty of tequila, am I right?! Well, nothing goes better with margaritas than some Latin jazz! Here we present to you a reissue from the ever so elusive Latin Jazz Quintet! These guys manage to blend good old fashioned jazz with some saucy Latin rhythms that will have you snapping your fingers and dancing to their interpretations of Milestones, and a few other recognizable tunes! Well, as they say in Mexico! “Andale Pues! A bailar se ha dicho, muchachos!” (Get out there and dance, kids!)

It’s been a hot minute since we posted to the website! Today we made a couple of “Kitty’s Mai Tais” and spun this album to celebrate my grades at university! 🌴🍹🗿Heading off to our recording studio soon, to work on the next Kitty & Mr. C’s Enchanted Tiki Hut Show! Cocktail recipe posted here, on our website, http://www.enchantedtikihutshow.com!

Finally, someone decided to release this fantastic album by vibraphonist Cal Tjader, and you know we had to get it! It’s fantastic, of course, as practically everything that Cal recorded! This is the 180 gram audiophile version. If you don’t have this already, you know what we’re going to tell you! Get it…NOW! Paired with a couple of mojitos, it’s the perfect antidote to anything boring! Cheers, Baby! 🍸🍹🎵😉

Hey Everyone! If you had issues downloading last week’s show on Mixcloud, here is the Dropbox link: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/rrxw8x0garw1c6ckcb7a2/ENCHANTEDTIKIHUT-100221-SHOW196.mp3?rlkey=p8jxbi2ondykzq6jdshi99i7b&st=41xarqhm&dl=0

Well, here’s another phenomenal release from Numero Group! If you’re familiar with exotica music, this one is (or should be) on every record collector’s want list! Percussionist and band leader Duran’s album has it all! From hot, rapid fire Afro-Cuban rhythms, thumping percussive lines, to moody, slow, atmospheric melodies that create the perfect evening in the jungle ambiance. You can almost see the dancers spinning around in a hypnotic trance, dancing feverishly, by the light of moon! It’s the perfect music to enjoy a couple of tiki cocktails to, in our vintage tiki mugs! Cheers, Baby!

Happy Father’s Day to all our listeners who are dads, like my Mr. C! ❤️ We’re enjoying a couple of Lavender ‘99’s tonight while also listening to our new album by Blossom Dearie! It was supposed to be my Mother’s Day gift, but we both love Blossom, so it has become OUR gift now! 😉 If you love Blossom as much as we do, you need to get this album, too!

Holy timbales, Batman! Has it really been over a year since we posted here?! Well, sometimes life happens, and we get busy, I guess, but we promise to be more active here! How do you like this one, for starters, huh?! 😁 (If you’re on Facebook, click on the pic to see more images!) This is an absolute gem Mr. C got me in November, as part of Record Store Day! It’s a limited pressing three record set of live, never before released performances of vibraphonist Cal Tjader at The Penthouse 1963-1967! What a fantastic gift! If you love Cal as much as I do (or shall I say “we” do), you’ll want to see if you can find a copy of this out there! Now, go make yourselves a Lavender ‘99…or whatever you fancy…and enjoy some of Cal’s wonderful music!

Today we went record shopping for ourselves, as we always do on our anniversary, birthday, Mother’s Day and Father’s Day! 😂 To our surprise we found two Cal Tjader albums and one Les Baxter! We’re sharing a pic of the reissued Tjader album one we found today, “Solar Heat” in colored vinyl, from Modern Harmonics, here! We had this one already, but couldn’t resist getting the reissue in bright orange-yellow! It sounds great! If you have a chance to get it, do it!