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Wait just a durn minute< So far in this Thread you have the frantic, frenetic (Louis Prima and successor Sam Butera and the Witnesses) conflated with a serious jazz singer ( Mel Torme) with some snooze-fest candidates. What is your definition of/limits on "lounge"? Everything that doesn't fit comfortably in another category? That way lies madness. "Lounge" to me is this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vj3bwouwn0 or
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrtD_ddTcrY or maybe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TDhp4S-mTE
From this, you'll find the watered-down music of Martin Denny on your own
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Nice music Jazz! I like the vibraphone....reminded me of Ramsay Lewis for some strange reason that I'll never know!...lol
[video=youtube;iAgECzbruKQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=iAgECzbruKQ[/video]
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SteveO Wrote:Nice music Jazz! I like the vibraphone....reminded me of Ramsay Lewis for some strange reason that I'll never know!...lol
Not to examine your thought process too deeply but it could be that after a dozen + jazz albums, Mr. Lewis was scorned and reviled by
Downbeat and other Serious Jazz pubs for daring to bring jazz back to the people with this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vu2tyk8cvc << other jazz players thought he was cool as a rule for doing so--it was the Tastemakers that dumped on him.
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Ah yes! The In Crowd! It was quite a major hit for him was it not?
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well I don't know about lounge music ..lift music perhaps James Last lol
Krisztian Wrote:Hello! I have a question, how many lounge music types exists? Can you tell me some luxury/casino/jazz lounge artists? Thank you!
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Mrrusty1 Wrote:well I don't know about lounge music ..lift music perhaps James Last lol
Brilliant reply MrRusty
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SteveO Wrote:^ LOL !!! ...good stuff re the Cheese, evil!
Well, blimey for not having heard of this dude before--my hipster creds are totally shot. For more:
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/richard-c.../biography
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I must admit that I really am not familiar with Cheese! I know all about two music parodists ...Jimmy Fallon and of course Weird Al Yanovic....thanks for the Cheese bio!
jazzboCR Wrote:Well, blimey for not having heard of this dude before--my hipster creds are totally shot. For more: http://www.allmusic.com/artist/richard-c.../biography
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SteveO Wrote:music parodists ...Jimmy Fallon
Thin fungible line between parody and homage--when JF plays alongside the famously prickly Neil Young, where's the line? No question about Weird Al. Parody segues into what the Skivvies do--mashups. Not trying to make you wrong here--but it's a case-by-case, career-long thing. And where do we include that odd-duck, Tom Lehre?r:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhuMLpdnOjY << I'm with him 100%. Then there's this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9adAljIaKYc
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Hilarious clips Jazz, thanks!
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