Les Baxter Passions featuring Bas Sheva, 10" Box Cap LAL486 1954 Booklet Exotica
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Les Baxter The Passions featuring Bas Sheva, 10" Box Capital LAL486 1954 6 page Booklet Exotica Pretty fantastic Bas Sheva steals it her vocals are amazing. My favorite Baxter
Brown/gold labels. 'Full Dimensional Sound' Includes a 6-page booklet:
"The instrumentation of The Passions is as follows: 2 clarinets (doubling piccolo, flute, and alto flute. An additional clarinet was used on one recording session): 2 trumpets; 2 trombones; 1 French horn (an additional horn was usedon one recording session); 10 violins; 2 violas; 2 cellos; String bass; Harp; Piano (doubling celeste); Percussion (snare, bass drum, tom toms cymbals, wood blocks, triangle, tympani, bells, vibraphone, xylophone, timbales, conga drum, bongos, guiro, tamborine, castanets cabaza, maracas, and gong); Choir: three male, three female.
The Passions is an album by Les Baxter featuring vocals by Bas Sheva. It was released in 1954 on the Capitol label (catalog nos. LAL-486). From February through December 1954, it was included in Billboard's chart of the top five Best Selling Specialized High-Fidelity Albums.
Bas Sheva (July 25, 1925 – February 11, 1960), the stage name of Bernice Kanefsky, was an American singer, prominent in the 1950s. Although she began singing Jewish traditional and cantorial music, her career branched out into popular music In 1954, Les Baxter, a composer and producer at Capitol Records, offered her the role of star vocalist on his suite "The Passions". Bas Sheva's performance on "The Passions" is startling even 50 years after it was recorded; she screams, wails, whimpers, howls, grunts, and even acts a little to the pulsating rhythms of Baxter's dark, gritty, and complex musical score. Even in an age where musical innovation was beginning to be encouraged, "The Passions" was far too innovative and edgy and the album was not a commercial success. Despite this showcase of the astounding range of her voice, Bas Sheva never recorded again.
Leslie Thompson Baxter (March 14, 1922 – January 15, 1996) was an American musician, composer and conductor.[1] 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. Baxter studied piano at the Detroit Conservatory of Music before moving to Los Angeles for further studies at Pepperdine College. From 1943 on he played tenor and baritone saxophone for the Freddie Slack big band. 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?"
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