This is what hi-fi was all about. It is seemless, quite enjoyable and rather magical. Esquivel’s use of stereo recording is legendary. Esquivel was a Mexican band leader, pianist, and composer for ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Juan Garcia Esquivel was the happiest discovery of the silly, short-lived, ’90s ...

The music of Mexican composer and arranger Juan Garcia Esquivel—often referred to with the exclamatory Esquivel!—has been described as Space Age pop, cocktail jazz and lounge music. Whatever it's ...

Marshall Blonstein's Audio Fidelity is releasing the "King of Space Age Pop" Esquivel's Other Worlds Others Sounds album on 180g Vinyl LP. Esquivel was a Mexican band leader, pianist, and composer for ...

Juan Garcia Esquivel, who became a pop-music cult icon when his eccentric music from the 1950s and ‘60s was rediscovered in the ‘90s, died Jan. 3 at his home in Jiutepec, Mexico, after a stroke. He ...

Before there was Bjork, or Prince, or Liberace—well, right around the same time as Liberace—there was Esquivel. Or, to give him his preferred billing, “Esquivel!” That jazzy exclamation point tells ...

The combination of lounge and Latin music the mighty Esquivel! trafficked in comes to life thanks to the flashier-than-thou services of Mr. Ho's Orchestrotica on The Unforgettable Sounds of Esquivel.