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Exotic and Latin albums were big deals in the 1950s and early '60s, and singers as diverse as Dean Martin, Lena Horne, and Peggy Lee were recording with castanets and bongo drums. Peggy Lee was so successful at the style that she cut two albums of light pseudo-Latin jazz in 1960. Like Peggy Lee, Julie London combined a restrained vocal approach with jazz phrasing and a cool attitude with icy sex appeal. But while London had Lee's stripped-down musical approach, she just didn't share her unrelenting rhythmic vocal drive or her innate feeling for exotic rhythms. It doesn't help that London is paired with arranger Ernie Freeman, who was usually better at crafting Nashville and soft rock style charts than Latin jazz arrangements. This isn't a bad album -- London sounds casual and confident throughout -- but it is a rather bland one, and isn't blandness what these types of exotica albums are supposed to be fighting against? Latin in a Satin Mood ends up sounding exactly like what it was intended to be -- an aid to put a little vanilla Latin sparkle in suburban American bedrooms. If you want your London in the Latin style, then try her excellent Getz/Gilberto-style tribute to Cole Porter, All Through the Night. Julie London's affinity for West Coast jazz and her melancholy emotional pull were much better suited to bossa nova than to Caribbean Latin music.
© Nick Dedina /TiVo
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Leonard Whitcup, Translator - Alberto Domínguez, ComposerLyricist - SNUFF GARRETT, Producer - Julie London, MainArtist
℗ 1963 Capitol Records, LLC
Sunny Skylar, Translator - María Teresa Lara, ComposerLyricist - SNUFF GARRETT, Producer - Julie London, MainArtist
℗ 1963 Capitol Records, LLC
Jack Sherr, Lyricist - SNUFF GARRETT, Producer - Julie London, MainArtist - Gonzalo Roig, ComposerLyricist - Albert Gamse, Lyricist
℗ 1963 Capitol Records, LLC
Sunny Skylar, Translator - Consuelo Velázquez, ComposerLyricist - SNUFF GARRETT, Producer - Julie London, MainArtist
℗ 1963 Capitol Records, LLC
Eddie Woods, Lyricist - ERNIE FREEMAN, Conductor - SNUFF GARRETT, Producer - Julie London, MainArtist - Enric Madriguera, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1963 Capitol Records, LLC
Norman Gimbel, Lyricist - SNUFF GARRETT, Producer - Julie London, MainArtist - Pablo Beltrán Ruiz, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1963 Capitol Records, LLC
Alberto Domínguez, ComposerLyricist - SNUFF GARRETT, Producer - Julie London, MainArtist - Milton Leeds, Translator
℗ 1963 Capitol Records, LLC
ERNIE FREEMAN, Conductor - Osvaldo Farrés, ComposerLyricist - SNUFF GARRETT, Producer - Julie London, MainArtist - Al Stewart, Translator
℗ 1963 Capitol Records, LLC
Sunny Skylar, Lyricist - Ricardo López Méndez, Lyricist - ERNIE FREEMAN, Conductor - Gabriel Ruíz, Composer - SNUFF GARRETT, Producer - Julie London, MainArtist
℗ 1963 Capitol Records, LLC
ERNIE FREEMAN, Conductor - SNUFF GARRETT, Producer - Julie London, MainArtist - Maria Grever, ComposerLyricist - Charlie Pasquale, Lyricist
℗ 1963 Capitol Records, LLC
AGUSTIN LARA, ComposerLyricist - RAY GILBERT, Translator - SNUFF GARRETT, Producer - Julie London, MainArtist
℗ 1963 Capitol Records, LLC
Jack Russell, ComposerLyricist - SNUFF GARRETT, Producer - Julie London, MainArtist - Buddy Pepper, ComposerLyricist - Inez James, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1963 Capitol Records, LLC
Album review
Exotic and Latin albums were big deals in the 1950s and early '60s, and singers as diverse as Dean Martin, Lena Horne, and Peggy Lee were recording with castanets and bongo drums. Peggy Lee was so successful at the style that she cut two albums of light pseudo-Latin jazz in 1960. Like Peggy Lee, Julie London combined a restrained vocal approach with jazz phrasing and a cool attitude with icy sex appeal. But while London had Lee's stripped-down musical approach, she just didn't share her unrelenting rhythmic vocal drive or her innate feeling for exotic rhythms. It doesn't help that London is paired with arranger Ernie Freeman, who was usually better at crafting Nashville and soft rock style charts than Latin jazz arrangements. This isn't a bad album -- London sounds casual and confident throughout -- but it is a rather bland one, and isn't blandness what these types of exotica albums are supposed to be fighting against? Latin in a Satin Mood ends up sounding exactly like what it was intended to be -- an aid to put a little vanilla Latin sparkle in suburban American bedrooms. If you want your London in the Latin style, then try her excellent Getz/Gilberto-style tribute to Cole Porter, All Through the Night. Julie London's affinity for West Coast jazz and her melancholy emotional pull were much better suited to bossa nova than to Caribbean Latin music.
© Nick Dedina /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 12 track(s)
- Total length: 00:30:28
- Main artists: Julie London
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: CAPITOL CATALOG MKT (C92)
- Genre: Jazz
© 1963 Capitol Records ℗ 2017 Capitol Records
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