Claim: Chaino wanted to capitalize on the popularity of the jazz genre, a genre named after the Martin Denny album of the same name.
Evidence: Seeking to capitalize on the popularity of the exotica genre, the liner notes for Chaino's albums built a mythology of Chaino as an orphan who was "the only survivor of a lost race of people from the wilds of the jungle in a remote part of central Africa where few white men have ever been."