LES BAXTER 's AFRICAN JAZZ LP 33 Flamboyant Explosion to Music.

Description: This is a 33 1/3 record to LES BAXTER 's AFRICAN JAZZ LP 33 Flamboyant Explosion to Music AFRICA still echoes with the primitive beat. But the continent is no longer dark. For ancient Africa has collided with the twentieth century and the result is a flamboyant explosion. Les Baxter has set this explosion to music. He has taken the basic rhythms... tribal chants, message patterns of the drums, even the Watusi "nanigo" rhythms used in their ceremonial rites... all these he has used as the beginning for a dozen original, Africa-inspired compositions. To thousands of record fanciers, the name of Les Baxter is synonymous with exotic music. No one has been able to duplicate Les' music. One of the reasons is that he continually devotes a part of his life to traveling around the world, studying primitive music and instruments, understanding and absorbing them, thus enabling himself to use them as a part of his own musical vocabulary. Into these rhythmic and instrumental elements, Les pours a unique melodic and harmonic approach,using traditional instruments in highly untraditional ways, hearing and writing sounds that the instrumentalists have never before played, and then combining all the devices of composition and performance into something so unusual, so rich, so colorful that it bears the unmistakable stamp of Les Baxter. In this series of vivid impressions, Les has employed the talents of some outstanding jazz virtuosos. Larry Bunker is heard playing vibra-phone, xylophone, and marimba. Milt Bernhart is featured on trom-bone. And Plas Johnson provides some surprising tenor sax passages. side oneCONGO TRAINELEPHANT TRAILBANANA BOYSAFARIMOMBASA AFTER MIDNIGHT RAIN side twoLOST CITYWALKIN' WATUSIOSTRICH HUNTCAIRO BAZAARJUNGALEROBALINESE BONGOSProduced by Voyle Gilmore High fidelity enthusiasts will be particularly appreciative of this album, for Les displays not only the total exploration of instrumental tonalities but also the imaginative use of non-musical sounds such as the thrilling rumble of echoing thunder, the shriek of a train whistle, along with exotic African percussion instruments. It is all part of the Les Baxter genius for creating a rich, singular, ear-arresting kind of music, the kind found in African Jazz. Visible Cover Edge Wear please see pics THIS RECORD IS IN GOOD FAIR Condition please see pics CONDITION I HAVE NO WAY TO TEST THIS ITEM - Sold As-Is .

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Location: Kailua Kona, Hawaii

End Time: 2025-02-05T16:38:38.000Z

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