Esquivel news

 ◦ 10 september, 2005: The Sights and Sounds of Esquivel (see below) is out now.

 ◦ 1 august, 2005: Billboard reports: A host of previously unreleased recordings by late lounge music pioneer Juan Garcia Esquivel are due Sept. 6 via Bar/None. Recorded in 1975, the material on "The Sights and Sounds of Esquivel!" was originally intended for release as a promotional item for Chicago's La Margarita restaurant chain.

Recorded live in the studio with Esquivel's band - with canned applause overdubbed later - the set includes arrangements of George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue," the Ervin Drake/Dan Fisher/Irene Higginbotham standard "Good Morning Heartache" and the Tanya Tucker-popularized "Delta Dawn." The bandleader's widow, Yvonne Debourban Esquivel, contributes the disc's liner notes.

 ◦ 30 july, 2003: an Esquivel remix album is said to be coming out before the end of the year.
 

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