Easy Listening
Easy Listening ( German: " easy listening" ) is music that, without distracting, the way can run and is intended for relaxation. The term is used almost interchangeably used with light entertainment music, ambient music and Muzak.
Usually it is at Easy Listening to instrumental music with flowing string arrangements and instrumental interpretations of well known songs ( evergreens ). But the jazz music of the 1920s served on transatlantic luxury liners the Easy Listening the dining and entertaining guests.
Composers and performers of Easy Listening music had depending on the zeitgeist among critics and colleagues a more or less good reputation.
This discussion is old: In an article about the performance of symphonies outdoors in the summer of 1910, the reviewer is in the London Times on the outcome, promenade concerts would indeed have the reputation to be " modest and to provide to the audience only minimal intellectual demands. ", yet lend itself about Franz Schubert's Symphony in C major good for promenade concerts, even though they actually do a casual listening ( " Easy Listening " ) impossible.
In the 1990s, Easy Listening was rediscovered as a quality and influenced musical styles such as Lounge, Ambient, Smooth jazz and exotica.
Artists
- Pianists Floyd Cramer, Richard Clayderman, Bradley Joseph, Ferrante & Teicher, Frank Mills and Yiruma
- Panflutists Edward Simoni
- Guitarists like Duane Eddy
- Trumpeter as Horst Fischer in his later time, Jean -Claude Borrelly
- Vocal performers such as Tony Bennett, Andy Williams, Connie Francis, Dionne Warwick, Barry Manilow, Christopher Cross, Tom Jones and Neil Diamond
- Ray Conniff Orchestra, Percy Faith, Billy Vaughn, Mantovani, André Kostelanetz, James Last, Bert Kaempfert, Nelson Riddle Orchestra, Helmut Zacharias, 101 Strings, Martin Böttcher, Paul Mauriat, Raymond Lefèvre, Franck Pourcel
- Strings like Vanessa Mae, André Rieu et al
- Composers like Burt Bacharach
- Bands like The Fifth Dimension, Carpenters, Shaped Signs