"Les Baxter- Brazil Now-1966 US":
Les Baxter (March 14, 1922 – January 15, 1996) was an American musician and composer.
Baxter studied piano at the Detroit Conservatory before moving to Los Angeles for further studies at Pepperdine College. Abandoning a concert career as a pianist, he turned to popular music as a singer. At the age of 23 he joined Mel Tormé's Mel-Tones, singing on Artie Shaw records such as "What Is This Thing Called Love?".
Baxter then turned to arranging and conducting for Capitol Records in 1950 and was credited with the early Nat King Cole hits, "Mona Lisa" and "Too Young", but both were actually orchestrated by Nelson Riddle.
In later releases of the recordings the credit was corrected to Riddle. In 1953 he scored his first movie, the sailing travelogue "Tanga Tika". With his own orchestra, he released a number of hits including "Ruby" (1953), "Unchained Melody" (1955) and "The Poor People Of Paris" (1956).
He also achieved success with concept albums of his own orchestral suites: "Le Sacre Du Sauvage", "Festival Of The Gnomes", "Ports Of Pleasure", and "Brazil Now", the first three for Capitol and the fourth on Gene Norman's Crescendo label. The list of musicians on these recordings includes Plas Johnson and Clare Fischer.
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Heyyy, do you read MINDS DjFanis.. @.@ ..?!? (Heheh, OFCOZ you do~~~)
Guesse what I brought home this week from a flea-market? A nice stack of original, 1st. press Command releases (heavy 180-gr. vinyl in GREAT shape!) from Enoch Light, the guy who invented a way to record audio on 35mm film to achieve abs. max. audio-dynamics and frequency-responce, let's get BOMBASTIC, and I mean.. (Yup!) Unfortunately the Command label turned into budget label round 1965, using 2nd. quality vinyl etc., differences are HUGE!
Mostly I use a little newly-build Chinese tube-amp (only 2x12W!), replaced the Chinese tubes with some nice New-Old-Stock ones and.. Wow! Big-band brass, Abdullah Ibrahim, Quincy Jones, bossa or jazz.. It ALL makes my guests fall out of their chairs in unbelieve! Orchestra-tubes need... TUBES, especialy Enoch Light; I'd highly recomment:
- Big Band Bossa Nova (Command 1962)
- Big Bold & Brassy (Command 1960)
- Let's Dance The Bossa Nova (Command 1963)
- Far Away Places (Command 1960)
- Stereo 35mm (Command 1961)
There are loads of Enoch's *.mp3's @320 available on the net, but I haven't seen that many loss-less, so.. Next week I hope to visit a guy with an awsome (expensive!) Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) in order to master his best work in TRUE 24-bit/96kHz format, the ONLY way to do a LITTLE justice to the ORIGINAL experience..
Hope ya guys have a better late-summer then we have here in Amsterdam lately, wich is why I'm buggin' you guys with this lengthy post, lol.. ^x^ .. *huggles*
PS: Anyone knows what happened with Bud Shrifrin's blog?
Wow...I grabbed four of those same five about a month ago from a box of LPs that had just floated into my local Goodwill. It's been a rarely good summer for LP finds in my area, I thought things had dried up.
And like you, Margarine, I keep a tube amp around to crank things up properly. My son was properly impressed the first time I got him to listen to a side-by-side of the same piece of music on CD compared to LP/old equipment. Now he is hooked, so I know all my old stereo gear will be around and loved for some time.
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