Lounge
Lounge is light, relaxed instrumental and vocal music from the 1950s and 1960s, made as stylish background for cocktail bars and living rooms.
It draws on jazz, Latin rhythms and orchestral pop, with vibraphone, soft percussion, strings, organ and smooth crooning, and it includes offshoots such as exotica and space age pop. Arrangements are polished and unhurried, meant to set a mood without demanding attention. The name 'lounge' was applied to it only later, and the style had a revival in the 1990s. It is close to easy listening but more playful and more tied to jazz and exotic themes.
Artists it is known for: Les Baxter, Martin Denny, Esquivel.
- Family
- Classical & Soundtrack
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A genre
- From
- United States, 1950s
- Also called
- lounge music
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 5%
About 3,900 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have lounge among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Lounge artists
Frank Sinatra
Michael Bublé
Chet Baker
Dean Martin
Bing Crosby
Billie Holiday
Paul Anka
Vince Guaraldi
Vince Guaraldi Trio
The Ink Spots
The lounge artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
Sources
The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.