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Les Baxter

A pianist, composer and arranger who cut his teeth with jazz swing bands, Les Baxter went on to have a long and varied career during which he became closely associated with Nat King Cole, pioneered the use of the electrical theremin instrument and is credited as the founder of 'exotica', an easy listening style fused with African and South American influences which became hugely popular through the 1950s. Born in Mexia, Texas he learned his music studying at the Detroit Conservatory and Pepperdine College in Los Angeles and started out playing baritone and tenor sax with the...