Henry Mancini: "The Latin Sound of..."

Released in 1965.

Henry Mancini persistently is relegated to "Easy Listening"

"Mood Music" and other brands of "Elevator Music."

And I admit that

compared to ROCK music

and all of its legitimate descendants

Mr. Mancini is much more closely related to those softer genre.

But I believe there should be at least ONE solid, accepted category

somewhere between "easy listening" and "jazz"

that could describe Henry Mancini 

and a few others

so they wouldn't be so blithely

lumped in with the Muzak crowd.

Know what I mean? 

I mean

these days

Rock, Pop, and Soul

have so many subgenre

it is durn near totally

confounderatin'

to keep up with 'em all.

Even Jazz

has multiple subgenre.

I'll have to give this some serious thought.

No, really.

I will.

Please stand by.

Epiphany to follow.