Les Baxter

Les Baxter – Midnight On The Cliffs (1957/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 31:32 minutes | 361 MB | Genre: Lounge, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Capitol Records

The album of Les Baxter choirs and orchestra entitled “Midnight on the cliffs” released by Capitol in 1957 involved in this song choruses and featured vocalists Sue Allen and Bill Kennedy.

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Les Baxter – Les Baxter’s La Femme (1956/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 36:54 minutes | 410 MB | Genre: Lounge, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Capitol Records

Les Baxter’s La Femme is an album by French conductor Franck Pourcel and His French Strings. It was released in 1956 on the Capitol label (catalog no. T-10015). Upon its release, Billboard magazine gave the album a rating of 77 and wrote: “‘La Femme’ might be called a ‘pop’ symphony, in a dozen movements, dedicated to woman – her eyes, lips, arms, hands, etc. The pieces are reflective of the mysteries of femininity, and the whole attractive opus is the work of Les Baxter

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Les Baxter – Kaleidoscope (1955/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 31:14 minutes | 359 MB | Genre: Lounge, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Capitol Records

Kaleidoscope is one of Les Baxter’s earliest 12″ albums, an instrumental platter that contains the hits “Blue Tango,” “Ruby,” “Gigi,” “The High and the Mighty,” and one of his biggest, “April in Portugal.” Even though Baxter’s Tamboo! and “Quiet Village” were yet to come, Kaleidoscope shows his abiding interest in international music and instrumentation that contributed to the exotica craze. Most of the songs are drawn from international sources with the exception of four Hollywood film themes. “Atlantis” foreshadows Baxter’s 1957 album Skins! with its emphasis on percussion, while “Julie” is straight orchestral pop with a wordless chorus. Kaleidoscope lacks the cohesion of his thematic albums because of its wide mixture of styles, but that is not surprising since most of these songs are taken from previously released singles.

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Les Baxter – Caribbean Moonlight (1956/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 31:55 minutes | 364 MB | Genre: Lounge, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Capitol Records

Caribbean Moonlight is an album by Les Baxter. It was released in 1956 on the Capitol label (catalog no. T-733). In January 1957, it reached the No. 5 spot on Billboard magazine’s “Pop Instrumentals” chart.

AllMusic later gave the album a rating of four stars. Reviewer Jason Akeny wrote that “its melodies move with the hypnotic beauty and sway of moonbeams flickering across the water’s surface, while its supple, exotic rhythms conjure a nearly mystical paradise of palm trees, sandy beaches, and cool breezes.”

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