Robert Drasnin
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American composer and clarinet player (1927-2015)
Film & TV
Charleston, West Virginia, USA
Robert Jackson Drasnin is an American film music composer.
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1927
- Active to
- 2015
american clarinetistamerican composerclarinetistcomposerexoticajazz
Discography
- Voodoo!1959
- Voodoo II2007
- The Kremlin Letter2011
- Voodoo III2017
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 29,439
- Total plays
- 207,981
Tags
loungeexoticatikieasy listeningspace age pop
Robert Drasnin 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 <a hre
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Robert
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Charleston
- Place of death
- Tarzana
- Occupation
- film score composer
- Genre
- easy listening
- Instrument
- flute
- Official website
- www.robertdrasnin.net
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- date of birth
- 1927-11-17
- date of death
- 2015-05-13
- alternative name
- Bob Drasnin
- birth name
- Robert Jackson Drasnin
- nickname
- Bob
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