Biography
Leslie Thompson Baxter (March 14, 1922 – January 15, 1996) was an American composer, conductor, and musician. After working as an arranger and composer for swing bands, he developed his own style of easy listening music, known as exotica, and scored over 250 radio, television and motion pictures numbers.
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Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Hello Nasty
1998
Jackie Brown (Music From The Miramax Motion Picture)
1997
Quiet Village - The Exotic Sounds Of Martin Denny
1959
Solid Gold Hits
2005
Anthology: The Sounds Of Science
1999
No Way Out
1997
Forbidden Island
1958
Exotica Volume II
1957
Primitiva
1958
Exotica
1957
Intergalactic
1998
Taboo - The Exotic Sounds Of Arthur Lyman
1958
Le Sacre Du Sauvage (Ritual Of The Savage)
1951
Beastie Boys Music
2020
Technicolor Paradise (Rhum Rhapsodies & Other Exotic Delights)
2018
Black Widow
1976
Music Of Hawaii
1966
Legend Of The Sun Virgin
1952
Exotic Moog
1969
Exotica Vol. III
1959
Tamboo!
1955
Taboo Vol. 2
1960
Afro-Desia
1959
African Queens
1977
Credited work
2,425 releases · 437 albums · active 1950–2026
- Performance · 3,988
- Other credits · 276
- Production · 103
Studios: Mediasound · The Kaiser Aluminum Dome · Liberty Studios · Capitol Studios
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Martin Denny
- Nat King Cole
- Les Baxter And His Orchestra
- Yma Sumac
- 101 Strings
- Arthur Lyman
- Beastie Boys