Arthur Lyman
Arthur Lyman was a Hawaiian musician who played the vibraphone and marimba
leading a band that helped to popularise the so-called exotica style of music in
the 1950s. It was an easy listening mix of big band jazz and moody Polynesian
themes with a Latin influence and ethnic instruments, bird calls and jungle
noises.
Lyman grew up in Honolulu and learned to play music on a toy marimba as a child
by copying vibraphonist Lionel Hampton. By the time he was a teenager, he had
turned professional in a local jazz club and joined the band headed by Martin
Denny in the Shell Bar of t...
September SongArthur Lyman
Hawaiian War ChantArthur Lyman
My Eyes Adored YouArthur Lyman
MisirlouArthur Lyman
CaravanArthur Lyman
Little Drummer BoyArthur Lyman
September SongArthur Lyman
Yellow Bird
4:52
Hawaiian War ChantArthur Lyman
Hawaiian Sunset
3:43
My Eyes Adored YouArthur Lyman
2:11
MisirlouArthur Lyman
Taboo: The Exotic Sounds
2:56
CaravanArthur Lyman
Taboo: The Exotic Sounds
2:33
Little Drummer BoyArthur Lyman
Merry Christmas
2:20
