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Early life. 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's Balladeers
Les Baxter's Balladeers were a 1960s folk group formed by...
- Les Baxter's Balladeers
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.
Leslie Thompson « Les » Baxter (né le 14 mars 1922 et décédé le 15 janvier 1996 à Newport Beach, comté d'Orange) est un musicien, compositeur, arrangeur et chanteur américain.
- Exotica, lounge
- Capitol Records
- Piano
- www.lesbaxter.com
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 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.
Biografia. È considerato il padre e maggior esponente della musica Space Age ed Exotica, e tra i più rilevanti arrangiatori del '900. All'età di 23 anni entra a far parte come cantante dei MelTones, la formazione di Mel Tormé che abbandona nel 1947 per entrare in un quartetto vocale della NBC Radio; Baxter continua a cantare fino al 1952.
