[Dixielandjazz] Les Baxter, Quiet Village, & Barney Bigard

[Charles Suhor]

Before Martin Denny's 1959 hit there was the fine mid-fifties Les 
Baxter 10' LP, "Le Sacre du Sauvage," with Quiet Village and quite a 
few other lovely and imaginative melodies, and best of all, an 
authentic Latin percussion section--Machito's, or Prado's, I think. I 
found a wonderful bio of Baxter (he played with Barney Bigard and was 
one of Mel Torme's Mel-Tones!) at 
http://www.exoteque.com/exotica/baxterarticle.html

Charlie Suhor




On Apr 22, 2005, at 10:14 PM, David Richoux wrote:

> Martin Denny had the hit but Les Baxter wrote it.
> As I recall from an interview  on a  "Space Age Bachelor Pad"  show 
> that was on KFJC the bird calls and such were done by the band - not 
> "natural sounds."
>
> There is a good bio on Denny at:
> http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:qwanqj1bojda~T1
>
>
> Dave Richoux
>
>
> On Apr 22, 2005, at 5:19 PM, LARRY'S Signs and Large Format Printing 
> wrote:
>
>> There was a tune out in the late 50's early 60's called Quiet 
>> Village.  It
>> used all sorts of calls.  I always thought it was a cool song but for 
>> this
>> one exception I'm not much for the bird calls etc.
>> ----- Original Message -----
>
>
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