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 Les Baxter Lyrics and Songs
Popular or famous Les Baxter music songs: Quiet Village, Poor People Of Paris Lyrics, April in Portugal Lyrics, Unchained Melody, Ruby Lyrics. More music lyrics and songs Wake the Town and Tell the People Lyrics, Simba, Oasis Of Dakhla, Mozambique, High and the Mighty, Voodoo Dreams, Blue Tango Lyrics, Love Dance, Safari, Temptation Lyrics. More music lyrics and songs Lost City, Zambezi, Tropicando, Stone God, Pool of Love. See All Songs
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Les Baxter Biography
Artist was a member of Mel Torme's Meltones, a film score and television theme composer, and even the leader of a folk ensemble. However, the multi-talented composer/arranger/conductor is best known for being one of the creators of the "exotica" sound. By fusing Polynesian rhythms and instrumentation with slick orchestral arrangements, Baxter gave rise to a hip, swanky, less cerebral variation of jazz that appealed to the lounge and bachelor-pad set of the 1950s and '60s. The exotica movement has had many a revival through the years, thus ensuring that Baxter remains an icon of quirky cool.
Key Personnel
| Member Name | Worked With | | Les Baxter | Les Baxter Orchestra, Neil Norman, Artie Shaw, Yma Sumac, Al Martino, Nat "King" Cole, Bing Crosby, Martin Denny, Samuel J. Hoffman | | Plas Johnson | Ella Fitzgerald, Marvin Gaye, Carole King, Rod Stewart, Steely Dan, Aaron Neville, Linda Ronstadt, Boz Scaggs, Tom Waits, Sam Cooke | | Joe Foster | Asylum Choir, Mickey Baker, Bishop Neil C. Ellis, Blades Of Grass, Earl Bostic, Ruth Brown, Lori Burton, Cab Calloway, Canterbury Music Festival | | Richard Tater |
Worked With
Artie Shaw, Les Baxter Orchestra, Neil Norman, Yma Sumac, Al Martino
Contemporaries
Ennio Morricone (Composer/Conductor), Stan Kenton, Nat King Cole, Mel Tormé, George Shearing, Henry Mancini, Cal Tjader, Percy Faith, Louis Prima, Arthur Lyman, Ray Anthony, Floyd Cramer, Martin Denny, Esquivel, Enoch Light, 101 Strings Orchestra, Korla Pandit
Followers
Stereolab, Sergio Mendes, Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass, Pink Martini, Dimitri from Paris, Friends of Dean Martinez, Jon Hassell (Trumpet)
Influences
Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Fats Waller, Lionel Hampton, Raymond Scott (Jazz), Artie Shaw
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