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 Les Baxter Lyrics and Songs
Popular or famous Les Baxter music songs: Quiet Village, April in Portugal Lyrics, Poor People Of Paris Lyrics, Unchained Melody, Ruby Lyrics. More music lyrics and songs Wake the Town and Tell the People Lyrics, Simba, Oasis Of Dakhla, Mozambique, Pool of Love, Acapulco, High and the Mighty, Hong Kong Cable Car. More music lyrics and songs Voodoo Dreams, Blue Tango Lyrics, Love Dance, Tahiti: A Summer Night at Sea, Safari, Temptation Lyrics, Lost City. 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
Worked With
Les Baxter Orchestra, Artie Shaw, 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, Floyd Cramer, Ray Anthony, Martin Denny, Esquivel, 101 Strings Orchestra, Enoch Light, 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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