Juan Garcia Esquivel

Biography

Juan García Esquivel (January 20, 1918 – January 3, 2002), often known mononymously as Esquivel!, was a Mexican band leader, pianist, and composer for television and films. He is recognized today as one of the foremost exponents of a sophisticated style of largely instrumental music that combines elements of lounge music and jazz with Latin flavors. Esquivel is sometimes called "The King of Space Age Pop" and "The Busby Berkeley of Cocktail Music", and is considered one of the foremost exponents of a style of late 1950s-early 1960s quirky instrumental pop that became known (in retrospect) as "Space Age Bachelor Pad Music".

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Discography

Records they worked on — most-collected first.

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  Other Worlds Other Sounds

  1958

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  Infinity In Sound

  1960

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  Beavis And Butt-Head Do America (Original Score Album From The Motion Picture)

  1996

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  1968 Esquivel!!

  1968

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  Infinity In Sound Volume 2

  1961

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  Strings Aflame

  1959

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  Four Corners Of The World

  1958

Credited work

382 releases · 58 albums · active 1954–2024

• Performance · 975
• Other credits · 132
• Production · 20

Studios: Webster Hall · RCA Victor's Music Center Of The World · Sevier County High School · O'Henry Sound Studios

Frequent collaborators

• Various
• Esquivel And His Orchestra
• Juan Garcia Esquivel Y Su Orquesta
• Esquivel
• Esquivel His Piano And His Orchestra
• Maria Luisa Landin
• Burbujas
• Esquivel Y Su Orchestra

Around the web

• Wikipedia