Les Baxter
Les Baxter
Leslie Thompson "Les" Baxterwas an American musician and composer. After becoming well known as an arranger and composer for swing bands in the 1940s, he developed his own style of world music-influenced easy listening music, known as exotica, during the 1950s and 1960s...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth14 March 1922
CountryUnited States of America
american-musician
I've been down there 6 times and there's nothing like Brazilian percussion.
albums american-musician bury record
I don't think the record company is aware of it. Because they just bury my albums and don't release them.
album american-musician music
You know, they wanted to do a Broadway album and every show was kind of a bomb. There was no music at all.
concerts
I love doing concert music.