The Private Life Of A Private Eye by Enoch Light and the Light Brigade from 1959.
Ambient Exotica wrote:
"...Released in 1959 on his own Command label, it features 12 stupefying original cuts of the Crime Jazz/Spy Jazz era supercharged with bone-crushing timpani, eclectic percussion (with bongos and congas!), towering brass fusillades, mallet instruments and flittering pianos in raunchy bars..[it] breathes and lives excitement and danger, both of which come with an ever-important twist: accessibility and friendliness. The depicted city isn’t an underground-infested cesspool after all, but aglow with helical tendrils, sylphlike segues and lots of good-natured strata... even though every quasi-dangerous situation is channeled through gossamer tunnels and cross-fading vestibules, this album transpires plenty of fun."
http://www.ambientexotica.com/exorev411_enochlight_privateeye/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex5Je8HCRQQ&list=PLAAA683A194559629&index=1
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