Tak Shindo

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Born
11 November 1922
Born In
Sacramento, Sacramento County, California, United States
Died
17 April 2002 (aged 79)
Tak Shindo (1922–2002) led an extraordinary musical career while remaining primarily in the background. He served as arranger, composer, and musical advisor for film, television, radio, and Las Vegas revues. He released several successful albums in the genre, was a dance band leader who never missed a New Year’s Eve in forty years, performed in recording sessions on and on a variety of band instruments, acted in bit parts in Hollywood, served as a translator and tour guide in Japan, was a musical columnist and publisher, studied historical musicology and Asian religions… read more
Tak Shindo (1922–2002) led an extraordinary musical career while remaining primarily in the background. He served as arranger, composer, and musical advisor for film, television, radio, and Las Vegas revues. He released several successful albums in the genre, was a dance band leader w… read more
Tak Shindo (1922–2002) led an extraordinary musical career while remaining primarily in the background. He served as arranger, composer, and musical advisor for film, television, radio, and Las Vegas revues. He released several successful albums in the genre, was a dance band leader who never missed a New Year’s Eve in forty years, performed in recording … read more

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1 Play track Mganga! Mombasa Love Song
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2 Bali Ha'i - Remastered 1995 Bali Ha'i - Remastered 1995
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3 Play track Tak Shindo. Brass and Bamboo / Accent on Bambo. Exciting Big-Band Standards with an Oriental Flavor Stumbling
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4 Mganga! The Primitive Sounds of Tak Shindo Safari to Kenya
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5 Play track Tak Shindo. Brass and Bamboo / Accent on Bambo. Exciting Big-Band Standards with an Oriental Flavor The Song of Delilah
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6 Far East Goes Western Tumbling Tumbleweeds
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7 Play track Tak Shindo. Brass and Bamboo / Accent on Bambo. Exciting Big-Band Standards with an Oriental Flavor Bali Ha'i
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8 Play track Tak Shindo. Brass and Bamboo / Accent on Bambo. Exciting Big-Band Standards with an Oriental Flavor The Moon Was Yellow
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9 Mganga! The Primitive Sounds of Tak Shindo Bantu Spear Dance
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10 Tak Shindo. Brass and Bamboo / Accent on Bambo. Exciting Big-Band Standards with an Oriental Flavor Caravan
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Albums

  1. 9,932 listeners

    1 Oct 2017 · 12 tracks

    Mganga!
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  2. 2,720 listeners

    48 tracks

    Presenting Tak Shindo
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  3. 2,092 listeners

    1959 · 12 tracks

    Brass and Bamboo
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  4. 1,818 listeners

    1959 · 12 tracks

    Accent On Bamboo
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