Exterior sign at Bali Hai in Lynnfield, MA. bar area did have a touch tunes jukebox that I managed to hijack for about half an hour which allowed me to play some Martin Denny and Les Baxter tunes that were slightly out of earshot but simply knowing that they were playing and occasionally picking up the drum rhythms made it worth the $5 in.

Mar 05,  · Martin Denny, bandleader who mingled easygoing jazz with Polynesian instrumentation and jungle noises to exemplify 'exotica' sound that swept suburban America in .

Martin Denny changes the rhythms from tropical to Latin here – but the overall groove is still highly in his best exotica mode, and nicely augmented by some additional instrumentation! There's some traces here of the shift in production for instrumental music from the time – a bit of electric bass echoing out at the bottom of some cuts, more echo than usual on the piano lines, and a.

Mar 02,  · In the mid-'50s, composer and pianist Martin Denny combined lounge jazz, Hawaiian music, Latin rhythms, bird calls, and then-exotic ethnic instruments like, koto, gamelans, and Burmese temple bells into the sound known as exotica. Although the craze was short-lived, Denny recorded several popular instrumental albums and hit number four in with "Quiet Village," one of the most .

Forbidden Island, an Album by Martin Denny. Released in on Liberty (catalog no. LRP; Vinyl LP). Genres: Exotica. Featured peformers: Martin Denny (piano, aka_text celeste role_id aka_text), Augie Colón (bongos), Julius Wechter (vibraphone, marimba, xylophone, percussion), Harvey Ragsdale (aka_text {string bass} role_id aka_text), Lew Paino (percussion), Will Brady (flute.

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Forbidden Island, an Album by Martin Denny. Released in on Liberty (catalog no. LST ; Vinyl LP). Genres: Exotica.

Exotica subpage: Martin Denny LPs & 45s Martin Denny, Ethel Azama, Augie Colon, Chick Floyd, Sondi Sodsai. The Word: To say that Les Baxter invented exotica is to ignore Mozart, Ravel, and plenty of twentieth-century Afro-Cuban musicians, not to mention the folk traditions of the world. But he did kick off a minor idiom that can be described as kitschy Latin removed to Hawaii.