Post #291991 by professahhummingflowah on Wed, Mar 14, 2007 11:11 PM

Don't forget Robert Drasnin or Mel Henke. They are familiar names to TC'ers, but they weren't "exotica musicians" per se. Actually, I'd argue that practically ZERO exotica musicians do exotica first. Almost everyone comes from either a jazz, classical, Hawaiian or hapa-haole background. The only person I can think of for whom this might not be the case would be Lopaka Colon, whose father Augie was Denny's famed percussionist.

Hope this helps.

-Randy