Camille Sauvage (1910-1981) was a French soul-jazz-funk clarinetist, library composer and orchestra leader.
Showing posts with label Space Age. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Space Age. Show all posts
28/08/2025
12/10/2024
Lost in desolate places
Armando Sciascia (1920-2017) was an Italian composer, conductor, arranger and violinist; founder of Vedette Records.
28/04/2024
Tripping into Lombardy
Beat Psichedelico Alla Celluloide is an Italian Space age/Psychedelic/Lounge cinema music compilation made by Italian label Giallo Records.
14/05/2023
Deep tracts of the unknown
Sven Libaek (1938) is a
Norwegian-Australian composer, record producer and musician. He composes
film and TV soundtrack music and, as the staff producer for the
Australian division of CBS Records, influenced the Australian popular music scene in the mid-1960s.
07/04/2023
A dance for two serpents
Michel Legrand (1932 - 2019) was a French composer, arranger, conductor, and jazz
pianist. Legrand was a prolific film and television scores composer and wrote many memorable songs. His scores for the films of Jacques Demy,
Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg - 1964) and Les
Demoiselles de Rochefort (The Young Girls of Rochefort - 1967) earned
him Academy Award nominations and he won his first of three Oscars for
the song "The Windmills of Your Mind" from The Thomas Crown Affair
(1968).
05/08/2022
Flying with the Gods of Palenque
(Peter Thomas was a German composer and arranger, born 1st
December 1925 in
Breslau, Silesia (today Poland) and came a little later to Berlin, where
he remained up to his beginnings as a film musician. He wrote a lots of
soundtracks for movies and television series. His music oscillates
between easy listening/lounge and electronic/space-age styles. The
musician is abroadly well known as director of the incredible musical group The Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra. He died 17th May 2020 in Lugano, Switzerland).
09/12/2021
Honoring the heroes of the black and white keys
Leslie Thompson Baxter (March 14, 1922 - January 15, 1996) was an
American musician and composer. After working as an arranger and
composer for swing bands, he developed his own style of easy listening
music, known as exotica; Baxter, alongside Martin Denny and Arthur Lyman, is celebrated as one of the progenitors of exotica music. He offered package tours in
sound, selling tickets to sedentary tourists who wanted to stroll
around some taboo emotions before lunch, view a pagan ceremony, go wild in the sun or conjure a demon, all without leaving home stereo comforts in the whitebread suburbs.
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