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Les Baxter

USA

Born: 01 January 1922

Died: 01 January 1996

Years Active: 40, 50, 60, 70

Genres: Easy Listening

Styles: Exotica, Exotica/Lounge, Lounge

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Les Baxter is a pianist who composed and arranged for the top swing bands of the '40s and '50s, but he is better known as the founder of exotica, a variation of easy listening that glorified the sounds and styles of Polynesia, Africa, and South America, even as it retained the traditional string-and-horn arrangements of instrumental pop. Exotica became a massively popular trend in the '50s, with thousands of record buyers listening to Baxter, Martin Denny, and their imitators. Baxter also pioneered the use of the electronic instrument the there...

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