Robert Drasnin
An American composer and multi-instrumentalist, Robert Drasnin had a host of television compositions under his belt, including work for Lost in Space, CHiPs, Playhouse 90, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Mission Impossible, and The Twilight Zone. From 1977 until the early '90s, he was the Director of Music for CBS Entertainment. Before all of that, he played alto, clarinet, and flute in the jazz bands of such leaders as Tommy Dorsey and Red Norvo. His status as an artiste, however, rests upon an album that he might have considered as a trifle at the time. Voodoo!, issued around the late '50s on the tiny Tops label, closely approximated the exotica sound of Martin Denny -- under, apparently, instructions from the Tops A&R chief himself. Drasnin devised a satisfying approximation of Denny's tropical-Latin-lounge jazz hybrid in a somewhat more low-key fashion than Denny himself. Indeed, Drasnin later arranged Denny's Latin Village album. The rare Voodoo! LP was reissued on CD in 1996. In 2007, Drasnin released the Skip Heller-produced Voodoo II, just under 50 years after the release of its predecessor. Drasnin passed away on May 13, 2015 from complications resulting from a fall. Prior to his death, he had been working on material for a third volume in his Voodoo series. The resulting Voodoo III, which was compiled and finished by producer and friend Skip Heller, was released in 2017.
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Voodoo!
Jazz - Lançado por Dionysus Records - Bacchus Archives - Orange Sky - Hell Yeah em 14/02/2012
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Percussion Exotique
Jazz - Lançado por Trunk Records em 01/01/2014
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Voodoo II
Jazz - Lançado por Dionysus Records - Bacchus Archives - Orange Sky - Hell Yeah em 14/02/2012
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Exotic Excursion
New Age - Lançado por Simitar Holdings em 03/06/1996
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Exotic Sounds of Jazz
Robert Drasnin, The Exotic Sounds Of Arthur Lyman, Eden Ahbez, Warren Barker and His Orchestra
Pop - Lançado por Hit that Record em 01/08/2020
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Chillin' with Robert Drasnin
Pop - Lançado por Play Digital em 31/08/2015
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Voodoo
World - Lançado por Ling Music Group em 06/06/2009
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Be With Me
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Arrows in the Gale
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Winter Dreams
Jazz - Lançado por Winter Dreams em 01/10/2022
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Just at the Turn of the Tide
Jazz - Lançado por turn of the tide em 27/04/2023
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Nightingale
Jazz - Lançado por oldies and hits for future em 02/05/2019
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Confectioner's
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Love Caught
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Talkative Friend
Jazz - Lançado por classics & more em 09/05/2016
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Open Stage
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