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Martin Denny

Within 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 in to the sound referred to as exotica. Even though trend was short-lived, Denny documented several well-known instrumental albums and strike number …

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