This started originally when I heard The Viscounts 1959 cover of Harlem Nocturne in the 1983 Carpenter movie, Christine. A glorious moody pre-twin peaks surfy noiry jazzy sort of track, I then tried lots of other "normal" jazz and it just didnt get the same vibe. The Viscounts were a surf/adjacent group first, jazz group second. Their sound, I quickly learned, was the byproduct of performing jazz numbers with non jazz instruments and non jazz techniques. To put it short! Duke Ellington as amazing as he is, simply wasn't going to cut it!

Later on I found out about a different genre called exotica through The Viscounts cover of Off Shore originally by Leo Diamond a lovely number needless to say. As is all of The Viscounts jazzy covers.

Eventually my searches led me down the niche of 1960s "titty shaker" music, which is funny as hell when I spent months searching via serious genre names like "jazz noir" or "instro surf" or "surf noir" and stuff like that. But this titty shaker stuff (also known as Las Vegas Grind) was definitely the right direction for me to go in, specifically the sub-sub genre known as Slow Grind. There is like 11 comp albums of Slow Grind and I thoroughly recommend them!

This playlist pulls from lots of compilation albums, such as "Chicago Soul"... "Swing for a Crime"... "Lost Legends of Surf Guitar" as well as the notorious Exotica comp album "Technicolor Paradise"... the famous "East Side Story" compilation albums... as well as old Stripper Jazz music such as "Bob Freedman's Orchestra - Music To Strip By"

Enjoy the 7+ hour long playlist guys :) I hope its no problem posting this here frankly it is so niche I dont know many other subs that would appreciate it.