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
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.
intellectual composer
I'm not an intellectual composer.
writing emotional
I write emotional music.
song imagination challenges
Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.
clever
That was when the Spanish came in and conquered the Aztecs. I thought that was a clever thing.
music innovation musical
Any good music must be an innovation.