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Browse piano sheets by Les Baxter on Zen Virtual Piano. Les Baxter built a reputation on an exotic style. His estate biography says it drew on the lush harmony of French impressionist composers Maurice Ravel and Claude Debussy, the striking orchestration of Igor Stravinsky, and the Latin rhythms that had come to attention in the music of Cuban bandleaders such as Machito and Tito Puente. A University of Arizona collection biography adds that his first record album, Music Out of the Moon, used completely unorthodox instrumentation: flute, cello, French horn, four percussion, a choir that sang no words and an electronic instrument called the Theremin. His singles began in 1951 with “Because of You” and continued with easy-listening hits including “Unchained Melody,” “Wake the Town and Tell the People,” “Lonely Wine,” “April in Portugal,” “Blue Tango” and, most notably, the 1956 blockbuster “The Poor People of Paris.” The estate biography notes that Baxter arranged all of these records but composed none of them, although he was always quick to point out his success as a hitmaker.
Browse piano sheets by Les Baxter on Zen Virtual Piano.
Les Baxter built a reputation on an exotic style. His estate biography says it drew on the lush harmony of French impressionist composers Maurice Ravel and Claude Debussy, the striking orchestration of Igor Stravinsky, and the Latin rhythms that had come to attention in the music of Cuban bandleaders such as Machito and Tito Puente.
A University of Arizona collection biography adds that his first record album, Music Out of the Moon, used completely unorthodox instrumentation: flute, cello, French horn, four percussion, a choir that sang no words and an electronic instrument called the Theremin.
His singles began in 1951 with “Because of You” and continued with easy-listening hits including “Unchained Melody,” “Wake the Town and Tell the People,” “Lonely Wine,” “April in Portugal,” “Blue Tango” and, most notably, the 1956 blockbuster “The Poor People of Paris.” The estate biography notes that Baxter arranged all of these records but composed none of them, although he was always quick to point out his success as a hitmaker.
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His estate biography describes an exotic style drawing on Ravel and Debussy, Stravinsky’s orchestration and Latin rhythms from bandleaders such as Machito and Tito Puente.
No. The estate biography says he arranged that record and the other hit singles it lists, but did not compose them.
A University of Arizona collection biography names Music Out of the Moon, which used unorthodox instrumentation including a Theremin.