Les Baxter (Leslie Thompson Baxter, 1922 - 1996) was an
American musician and composer. After working as an arranger and
composer for swing bands, he developed his own style of easy listening
music, known as exotica; Baxter, alongside Martin Denny and Arthur Lyman,
is celebrated as one of the progenitors of exotica music. He offered
package tours in
sound, selling tickets to sedentary tourists who wanted to stroll
around some taboo emotions before lunch, view a pagan ceremony, go wild
in the sun or conjure a demon, all without leaving home stereo comforts
in the whitebread suburbs.
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