Like his screwball, one-of-a-kind music, Juan Garcia Esquivel’s looks had a slightly out-of-this-world quality. His smooth jawline and sensuous mouth evoked the cliched image of a suave Latin Lothario ...

Composer/band leader/pianist and lounge-music icon Juan Garcia Esquivel died Jan. 3 in Jiutepec, Mexico, following a stroke, Billboard Bulletin reports. He was 83. Esquivel, who used only his surname… ...

The music of Mexican composer and arranger Juan Garcia Esquivel—often referred to with the exclamatory Esquivel!—has been described as Space Age pop, cocktail jazz and lounge music. Whatever it's ...

Juan Garcia Esquivel, who became a pop-music cult icon when his eccentric music from the 1950s and ‘60s was rediscovered in the ‘90s, died Jan. 3 at his home in Jiutepec, Mexico, after a stroke. He ...

If the memorial service for Juan Garcia Esquivel this month were anything like his music, there’d be some zing, there’d be odd instruments and a vocal choir going: “Wow! Wow! Wow!” Esquivel, as he ...

In his own idiom, Juan Garcia Esquivel was compared to Aaron Copland and John Coltrane -- maverick innovators with insatiable musical intellects. But Esquivel's chosen idiom was an unusual place for ...

2002-01-10 04:00:00 PDT Jiutepec, Mexico-- Juan Garcia Esquivel, who became a cult icon when his eccentric music from the 1950s and '60s was rediscovered in the '90s, died Jan. 3 at his home after a ...

Los Esquivel and Luis R Conriquez are ready for the afterparty. On Thursday, the Esquivel brothers and Conriquez premiered their genre-merging collaboration “Pari Pari” with Rolling Stone. The Carlos ...

2002 - Composer/band leader/pianist and lounge-music icon Juan Garcia Esquivel dies in Jiutepec, Mexico, following a stroke. He is 83. By Billboard Staff 2004 – Britney Spears, 22, gets married in Las ...