Ultra-Lounge A Lexicon for Easy Listening - Softcover

Rizzoli

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0789300958 ISBN 13: 9780789300959

Publisher: Universe, 1997

Synopsis

From New York to Los Angeles, lounge music is coming back among a new generation of cocktail-sipping lounge cats. This ultimate A to Z of easy listening is a colorful, comprehensive, and hilariously written encyclopedia of the genre--from the greatest torch singers and lounge lizards to the Beach Boys. Ultra Lounge also includes a definitive discography, album reviews of lounge classics, and vintage photos of the music's most revered practitioners. color photos.

About this title

Review:

Dylan Jones's alphabetical listing of the groups, composers, and concepts surrounding lounge music is exhaustive in its breadth. He not only is fully conversant in the grandfathers of the form, he also is able to follow their lineage through the stereophonic experimentation of such '60s swingers as Esquivel and Herb Alpert, '70s soul-meisters such as the Fifth Dimension, and contemporary appropriaters of the Mancini legacy such as Pizzicato Five and trip-hoppers such as Tricky. Colorful reproductions of the oddly hilarious album covers of the early '60s highlight this fun and informative volume.

Review:

Packaged in an attractive faux-lizard cover and lavished with images of life on the New Frontier, Mr. Jones's book, while not as scholarly as Joseph Lanza's Elevator Music (1994), is an affectionate look back at an era of American excess. -- The New York Times Book Review, Eric P. Nash

About this edition

• Publisher: Universe
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0789300958
• ISBN 13: 9780789300959
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160