The Modernes, whoever they were, played cocktail jazz designed to appeal to people who liked light instrumental music such as that put out by The Three Suns (Twilight Time), an enormously popular group that recorded for RCA Victor.
Swingin' Easy was put out in 1956 on Concert-Disc, a company that also issued their albums on two- and four-track reel-to-reel tapes. As befits a company whose main business was in tapes that appealed to audiophiles the stereo quality on this release is excellent. The same can't be said for the quality of the LP, which was pressed on hissy, crackling, cheap vinyl. I've cleaned up the sample track, which was taken from an LP, as much as possible without affecting the sound quality of the music to any great degree.
Besame Mucho
Swingin' Easy is available as a download from Amazon in Britain and France but not in North America. Whether The Modernes, none of whom is identified, made any other recordings is unknown to me. I've certainly seen no evidence of them.
Here's what the two-track stereo reel-to-reel tape version of Swingin' Easy looked like.
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