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
Les Baxter quotes about
deserve-more tunes good-enough
In a sense, a hit belongs to the person who made it popular, but if a tune is good enough to attain tremendous success, then it certainly deserves more than one version, one treatment, one approach.
concerts
I love doing concert music.
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.
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.
american-musician
I've been down there 6 times and there's nothing like Brazilian percussion.