Les baxter African Jazz VINYL MINT BARELY PLAYED RARE

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Les baxter's African Jazz VINYL 
ST 1117 PRESSING. CONDITION OF RECORD IS NEAR MINT (the viny itself is flawless. ) The label has a little mark on the ring. CONDITION OF JACKET IS MINT- to  NEAR MINT. AMAZING! LOOKS NEW!     SUPERB CONDITION ANYONE WOULD BE IMPRESSED.

Biography

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.[1] In later releases of the recordings the credit was corrected to Riddle.[citation needed] In 1953 he scored his first film, 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). The latter recording sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc.[2]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.

Baxter also wrote the "Whistle" theme from the TV show Lassie.

Baxter did not restrict his activities to recording. As he once told Soundtrack! magazine, "I never turn anything down".

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GRADING IS AS FOLLOWS:

MINT....PERFECT RECORD, CLEAN GLOSS, NO MARKS, BEAUTIFUL
IN EVERY WAY. VERY FEW RECORDS WILL MAKE MINT.
MINT-....VERY CLEAN ONLY LIGHT MARKS... VERY OFTEN A GREAT
RECORD FOR MOST COLLECTORS.
VG+......LIGHT SCRATCHES ONLY, SHOULD PLAY AND LOOK VERY
NICE WITH MINIMAL SURFACE NOISE.
VG....STILL A NICE RECORD,LOOKS USED, LIGHT SCRATCHES
NO GOUGES, STILL PLAYS WELL, SOME SURFACE NOISE.
VG-......A BIT ROUGH BUT WILL PLAY OK, FILLS THE COLLECTION.
G..PLAYS ROUGH, HAS MULTIPLE SCRATCHES, WHAT A BARGAIN!

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