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
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 gene norman
But Gene Norman has an album out of me.
american-musician
I've been down there 6 times and there's nothing like Brazilian percussion.
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.
music thinking people
I've never believed in cheapening music by going according to what some people think is public taste.
want musician orchestra
When I want 30 musicians in the orchestra, I get 30.
concerts
I love doing concert music.
years broadway albums
I did the Broadway album unfortunately in a year when there were no hits.
littles ems problem
I don't know what the problem with Capitol is. Some one's got to wake 'em up. Prod 'em a little bit.
college working-all-the-time
I was working all the time I was in college. I was working so much that I could hardly do my college work.
simple style secret
Well, thats the secret of commerciality, a simple style and you stick with it.
song way fit
I aim my arrangements at what will fit and colorfully frame the song in the best way possible.
want way contracts
Under my contract with Capitol, I have complete freedom to do just about anything I want in my own way.
two trying musician
I don't try to make 15 musicians sound like two each.