Esquivel...the best ever??

[Magnetmaz]

If ever you are bringing ladies over to your 'space age bachelor pad', i suggest meeting them at the door in your smoking jacket...with a pipe and a snifter of brandy at hand.... and a little Esquivel blasting on the quadraphonic. This is the way Hugh Hefner would have wanted it.


Seriously, though..... if you haven't heard Esquivel, you need to download or go buy a cd....if at the very least, for humor's sake. It's 'cabana music' if i have my terms right. Esquivel was a latino composer in the 50s-60s that was really into technology and Stereophonics. It's like orchestral swinger music that's all about stereo panning.....the horn solo sliding from one speaker to the other like old Jimi Hendrix tracks. He wrote songs like "mucha muchacha" and other such hits that deserve you strolling around the veranda sipping a martini to ( whilst doing a little dance).

Anyways, you should take a listen... or at least a look at his bio, since it's a year aniversary of his death, you disrespectful bastage!
http://www.spaceagepop.com/esquivel.htm

-Maz

[halojoy]

The closest I have come
would be Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass

http://www.tijuanabrass.com/

I have this Vinyl from 1965:

!!Going Places!!
Produced by Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss
Arranged by Herb Alpert
Billboard peak album chart position: 1, 6 weeks (debuted 11/6/65)
Weeks in Top 40 album chart: 107
RIAA certified Gold (12/15/65)
Album released 1965

Song Listing:

Tijuana Taxi {Ervan Coleman} [2:05]
I'm Getting Sentimental Over You {George Bassman} [1:59]
More And More Amor {Sol Lake} [2:44]
Spanish Flea {Julius Wechter} [2:07]
Mae {Riz Ortolani} [2:27]
3rd Man Theme {Anton Karas} [2:28]
Walk, Don't Run {J. Smith} [1:50]
Felicia {John Pisano} [2:45]
And The Angels Sing {Mercer-Elman} [2:34]
Cinco De Mayo {Chris Montez} [2:15]
A Walk In The Black Forest {Schwarzwaldfahrt-Jankowski} [1:48]
Zorba The Greek {Mikis Theodorakis} [4:25]

[Magnetmaz]

is that "walk, dont run" the same tune that was a surf rock instrumental by the Ventures in the 50s ?

[halojoy]

Originally posted by Magnetmaz
is that "walk, dont run" the same tune that was a surf rock instrumental by the Ventures in the 50s ?

Probably is.
They made short songs those days, 50-60ies.

Walk don't run is 1:50, !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[dhaen]

They made short songs those days,

Now we have to endure at least 5 minutes.

Cheers,

[tito]

Originally posted by Magnetmaz

Anyways, you should take a listen... or at least a look at his bio, since it's a year aniversary of his death, you disrespectful bastage!
http://www.spaceagepop.com/esquivel.htm

-Maz

Well, I did just that.
Thanks for the tip, for i didn`t come any further then Luie,Luie El Touchy ( Songs In The Key Of Z)
I`ve already ordered a copy of Space Age Bachelor Pad Music (compilation)
The local cdhop-owner told me it takes about a week to get here and that`s too bad, for i can hardly wait to hear such good music.
Do you have any recommendations to what other cd`s/vinyl by Esquivel i really should listen to?
See ya...

[Magnetmaz]

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...304504-7545665

This is the one i have...Cabaret Manana. If you want an idea of what it's going to sound like, listen to the first 2 samples ( click the url's on the tracklist at the bottom of the page above)

I'm just really excited to hear this album when i get my Lowthers with some 300b amps pushing them

Like i mentioned above, he was really into HIFI as well as into composition.....so i'm interested to see how the production sounds on a decent system.