# Help needed: NPR story on resurgance of certain style of jazz **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 12, 2011, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-needed-npr-story-on-resurgance-of-certain-style-of-jazz/571140 "2011-02-12T17:14:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2011, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-needed-npr-story-on-resurgance-of-certain-style-of-jazz/571140/1 "2011-02-12T17:14:48Z")
There was an NPR piece on the radio when I woke up sometime in the last month or two about a certain style of jazz that was popular in the 1950’s, then was largely forgotten, and is now being reexplored by young modern jazz artists. I was still a little bleary, but if I remember correctly it had some polynesian influences and was called something close to “cosmopolitan” or “metropolitan” or something, although I could be wrong on that. I remember thinking that a friend of mine would really enjoy that, but my google fu has failed me in finding the story. Anyone also hear this, or can find it? ---
**Author:** ![Gfactor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@Gfactor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gfactor)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2011, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-needed-npr-story-on-resurgance-of-certain-style-of-jazz/571140/2 "2011-02-12T17:27:03Z")
Exotica The story: [http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=132288077&m=132304362](http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=132288077&m=132304362) Print version: [Music We Missed: Waitiki 7 : NPR](http://www.npr.org/2010/12/24/132288077/music-we-missed-waitiki-7) ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2011, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-needed-npr-story-on-resurgance-of-certain-style-of-jazz/571140/3 "2011-02-12T18:12:57Z")
That’s it exactly! Thanks, GMoney, you rock. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Gfactor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@Gfactor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gfactor)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2011, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-needed-npr-story-on-resurgance-of-certain-style-of-jazz/571140/4 "2011-02-12T18:20:02Z")
> [@pravnik](#): > > That’s it exactly! Thanks, GMoney, you rock. 🙂 Weren’t nothin’. I just ran “polynesian” through the search engine on the npr site. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2011, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-needed-npr-story-on-resurgance-of-certain-style-of-jazz/571140/5 "2011-02-12T18:24:45Z")
Crap, I could have sworn I tried exactly that just yesterday and couldn’t find it, but you’re right, there it is. Thanks again. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2011, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-needed-npr-story-on-resurgance-of-certain-style-of-jazz/571140/6 "2011-02-12T22:10:09Z")
If you like this type of music, I highly recommend listening to Juan Garcia Esquivel (he recorded as just Esquivel). [Surfboard](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NglD0H-cps) [Mini Skirt](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF9cH1zw34k) [Whatchamacallit](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kucrl7nVj7U) ETA: Martini and smoking jacket optional. ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-needed-npr-story-on-resurgance-of-certain-style-of-jazz/571140/7 "2011-02-14T18:36:37Z")
I wouldn’t really call exotica “jazz”, though. It’s lounge music. (Of course, the term “jazz” has been stretched almost beyond usefulness in recent years.) ---
**Author:** ![Gfactor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@Gfactor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gfactor)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-needed-npr-story-on-resurgance-of-certain-style-of-jazz/571140/8 "2011-02-14T22:27:33Z")
> [@cjepson](#): > > I wouldn’t really call exotica “jazz”, though. It’s lounge music. (Of course, the term “jazz” has been stretched almost beyond usefulness in recent years.) I thought the same. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-needed-npr-story-on-resurgance-of-certain-style-of-jazz/571140/9 "2011-02-14T22:54:16Z")
With his unerring instinct for doing the right thing at the wrong time, Todd Rundgren recorded and toured [an album of his hits in lounge style](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0015MCBNQ/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_2?pf_rd_p=486539851&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=B000002SNE&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=1QKC8RYFBQDC3WYX1Z85) back in 1997. [Here’s “Can We Still Be Friends” with a Bossa-Nova beat](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFImBUM6mJs). ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2011, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-needed-npr-story-on-resurgance-of-certain-style-of-jazz/571140/10 "2011-02-17T17:06:39Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > If you like this type of music, I highly recommend listening to Juan Garcia Esquivel (he recorded as just Esquivel). > > [Surfboard](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NglD0H-cps) > [Mini Skirt](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF9cH1zw34k) > [Whatchamacallit](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kucrl7nVj7U) > > ETA: Martini and smoking jacket optional. Neat, I do like that. Thanks. 🙂