Robert Drasnin

Robert Drasnin includes a web host of tv compositions in his belt, including work with Shed in Space, Playhouse 90, THE PERSON from U.N.C.L.E., Objective Impossible, as well as the Twilight Area. From 1977 before early ’90s, he was the Movie director of Music for CBS Entertainment. Before all that, he performed alto, clarinet, and flute within the jazz rings of such market leaders as Tommy Dorsey and Crimson Norvo. His position as an artiste, nevertheless, rests upon an record that he could have regarded as a trifle at that time. Voodoo!, issued throughout the past due ’50s over the small Tops label, carefully approximated the exotica audio of Martin Denny — under, evidently, instructions in the Tops A&R key himself. Drasnin devised a fulfilling approximation of Denny’s tropical-Latin-lounge jazz cross types, in relatively of a far more low-key style than Denny himself. Certainly, Drasnin later organized Denny’s Latin Community album. The uncommon Voodoo! LP was reissued on Compact disc in 1996.