Post #465818 by White Devil on Tue, Jun 30, 2009 12:45 PM

Not to be argumentative (and you do bend over backwards to be fair), but don't you think Denny & Baxter were considered to be genre-busting when they concocted their own offshoot of big band/light jazz/lounge? What potential limbs do we lose when we cut off budding offshoots because it's one thing and not another? This mindset is nothing new: it's the same thing jazz innovators encountered in the fifties, and what Bob Dylan encountered when he went electric. It IS about context, which is why the exotic tribal voices & rhythms in the acts I cite are far more "exotica" (and authentic) than what you might find in Arthur Lyman, or anything with a "lounge" label cynically slapped on it. So far, it seems that "tiki music" is anything with:
a) a bathing beauty or hula girl on the cover
b) a tiki carving on the cover
c) an eyeball driving a hotrod on the cover.
Notice a trend here? It should be about musical content & context, not about the jacket art, appealing as it may be.