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Early life [ edit] Baxter studied piano at the Detroit Conservatory of Music before moving to Los Angeles for further studies at Pepperdine College. From 1943 on he played tenor and baritone saxophone for the Freddie Slack big band. Abandoning a concert career as a pianist, he turned to popular music as a singer.
Les Baxter was a visionary, innovative, composer, conductor, arranger, and conductor who recorded some of the most innovative popular music of his time, influencing countless artists across several decades ranging from Nat King Cole to Jefferson Airplane.
Les was born in 1921 in Mexia,Texas (birthplace of Anna Nicole Smith), and spent part of his childhood in Detroit, where he attended the local conservatory and was considered something of a prodigy. He appears to have been fluent at an early age on piano and most woodwinds.
Les Baxter's Ritual of the Savage ( Le Sacre du Sauvage) is one of the definitive albums of the exotica genre.
Jun 19, 2019 · Unchained Melody (North-Zaret) by Les Baxter, his Orchestra and Chorus Posting the three very popular 1955 recordings of the ageless ballad “Unchained Melody” (see also Al Hibbler and Roy ...
L es Baxter is the leading figure in the history of exotica. Wherever exotica went, Les Baxter was there, often leading the way. His work for Capitol Records in the 1950s introduced most of the major movements in exotica.
Les Baxter. Soundtrack: Wild at Heart. Born March 14, 1922, at Mexia, Texas. He learned to play the piano at five years of age and studied at the Detroit Conservatory and at Pepperdine College in Los Angeles, California (his uncle was the college's first president).
Nov 22, 2017 · TRACKLIST 01- Celestial Nocturne 00:11 02- Moon Moods 03:18 03- Quiet Village 06:14 04- Jungle Flower 09:32 05- Sophisticated Savage 12:17 06- Barquita . Released in 1958 by Capitol Records.
brief intro / executive summary: Incredibly strange, innovative, and beautiful music that resonated with commercial audiences as well as critical music listeners across decades, genres, and demographics.
Les Baxter, far a field from his native Texas, was the most sophisticated of world travelers – being equally at home in New York, Paris, Rome, Buenos Aires, Rio, or Marakesh – and his music has always reflected the lavish and exotic colors and sounds found in the far-flung corners of the world.
