Linux – Make tar archive only files without directories (equivalent of zip -D -j)

I want to tar (and gzip) files without directories and do not store directory paths. I want only flat files in my archive.

For example if I'll do something like this:

tar -czf archive.tgz /home/another/path/*

Then I'll have files with paths in my archive:

home/another/path/file1
home/another/path/file2
home/another/path/file3

But I'd like to have only this:

file1
file2
file3

This is an equivalent of zip's zip -D -j command.

For simplicity's sake lets assume that there are no subdirectories inside /home/another/path/ – it contains only files.

I tried wit -C option but it didn't seem to work. With command like this:

tar -C /home/another/path/ -czf archive.tgz *

The tar was trying to archive files in current dir instead of the dir passed to -C. I'm using (GNU tar) 1.19.