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Les Baxter was an innovator of two forms of easy listening lounge music: exotica and space age pop. A fair jazz pianist, Baxter's real strengths were as an arranger. In the late 1940s, he started bringing exotic, percussion-heavy instrumentation together with lush, melodic strings and elements of big band swing. During this post-World War Two period, Baxter's island-mad exotic themes worked as aural vacations for newly transplanted suburbanites and his music also became a staple in Polynesian-themed Tiki bars. With song titles such as "Taboo," "City of Veils," and "Harem Silks from Bombay," it's easy to see how Baxter's music (like the Tiki lounges the music was played in) was built around hopeful eroticism as much as dreamy exoticism. In 1958, Baxter shot his steamy sounds up to the heavens with Space Escapade, which imaged islands in the sky full of booze and willing women who came in every color of the rainbow. After this, Baxter kept updating his signature sound for the changing times but by the late 1960s his music started to sound old fashioned. Ironically, this was an era when America's youth started acting like the very same wild, lascivious natives who were portrayed as fantasy objects in Baxter's songs. Thankfully, there's been a revived...  Read More

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  Les Baxter 8 Classic Albums CD   1 listed $29  Details 
  Les Baxter Academy Award Winners LP, CD   9 listed $4 - $134 View All
African Jazz  Les Baxter African Jazz Cassette, LP, CD   4 listed $19 - $66 View All
Alakazam The Great  Les Baxter Alakazam The Great! LP   2 listed $10 - $34 View All
April In Portugal  Les Baxter April In Portugal 7", 45   20 listed $1 - $18 View All
Around The World With Les Baxter  Les Baxter Around The World With Les Baxter CD   1 listed $19  Details 
  Les Baxter Arthur Murray Favorites Tangos LP, 7"   6 listed $5 - $142 View All
Atlantis  Les Baxter Atlantis 45   1 listed $6  Details 
  Les Baxter Baby Love 7"   1 listed $10  Details 
  Les Baxter Bacoa 7"   1 listed $6  Details 
Baxter's Best  Les Baxter Baxter's Best CD, LP, Cassette   36 listed $1 - $135 View All
  Les Baxter Because Of You 7"   2 listed $4 View All
Blue Echo  Les Baxter Blue Echo 7"   1 listed $5  Details 
Blue Mirage  Les Baxter Blue Mirage EP, 7", 7" Picture Sleeve   7 listed $3 - $11 View All
Blue Tango  Les Baxter Blue Tango 7", 78   4 listed $3 - $16 View All
  Les Baxter Bonjour Tristesse 7"   1 listed $2  Details 
Born Again  Les Baxter Born Again LP, Cassette   3 listed $11 View All
  Les Baxter Brazil Now Cassette   1 listed $34  Details 
Broadway '61  Les Baxter Broadway '61 LP, CD   8 listed $5 - $19 View All
Caribbean Moonlight  Les Baxter Caribbean Moonlight 7", LP, CD   8 listed $3 - $45 View All
Cervantes  Les Baxter Cervantes CD   1 listed $26  Details 
  Les Baxter A Chance Is All I Ask 7"   1 listed $3  Details 
  Les Baxter Clown On The Eiffel Tower 7"   1 listed $9  Details 
The Colors Of Brazil  Les Baxter The Colors Of Brazil CD   3 listed $14 - $29 View All
  Les Baxter Come Prima 7"   2 listed $6 - $20 View All
Confetti  Les Baxter Confetti LP, CD   3 listed $6 - $19 View All
  Les Baxter Continental LP   2 listed $3 - $9 View All
  Les Baxter Cry Of The Banshee LP   1 listed $23  Details 
  Les Baxter Dance, Everyone, Dance 7"   1 listed $5  Details 
  Les Baxter Dance Everyone Dance 7"   2 listed $4 - $10 View All
Designing Woman  Les Baxter Designing Woman 7", 7" White Label   4 listed $2 - $6 View All
  Les Baxter Dolce Far Niente 7"   1 listed $8  Details 
  Les Baxter Douchka 45   1 listed $12  Details 
  Les Baxter Earth Angel 7"   1 listed $52  Details 
  Les Baxter Ep - Romantic Rio (tracks - Venezuela-april In Portugal-romantic Rio-the Poor Poeple Of Paris) 7"   1 listed $6  Details 
  Les Baxter Ep:les Baxter Hits 7"   1 listed $31  Details 
  Les Baxter Ep:thinking Of You 7"   1 listed $6  Details 
Exotica Absolute  Les Baxter Exotica Absolute CD, 2CD   5 listed $19 - $27 View All
Fabulous Sounds Of Les Baxter  Les Baxter Fabulous Sounds Of Les Baxter LP, CD   4 listed $10 - $19 View All
A Farewell To Arms  Les Baxter A Farewell To Arms 7"   2 listed $5 - $21 View All
  Les Baxter The Fatal Knife 7"   1 listed $11  Details 
Festival  Les Baxter Festival 7", CD   2 listed $12 - $19 View All
  Les Baxter Flame Tree 7"   1 listed $12  Details 
  Les Baxter Follow Me 7"   3 listed $8 - $12 View All
Foreign Intrigue  Les Baxter Foreign Intrigue 45, 7"   2 listed $10 - $14 View All
The Fruit Of Dreams  Les Baxter The Fruit Of Dreams CD   1 listed $20  Details 
  Les Baxter Giant 7"   2 listed $11 - $15 View All
  Les Baxter Gigi 7"   1 listed $15  Details 
  Les Baxter Havana 7"   1 listed $6  Details 
Hell's Belles  Les Baxter Hell's Belles LP   2 listed $15 - $44 View All
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