Les Baxter's Jungle Jazz
1959 studio album by Les Baxter and His Orchestra
Les Baxter's African Jazz | ||||
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Studio album by Les Baxter and His Orchestra | ||||
Released | 1959 | |||
Genre | Easy listening, exotica | |||
Label | Capitol ST 1184 | |||
Producer | Voyle Gilmore | |||
Les Baxter and His Orchestra chronology | ||||
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Les Baxter's Jungle Jazz is an album by Les Baxter and His Orchestra. It was released in 1959 on the Capitol label (catalog no. T-1184). Plas Johnson is featured on tenor sax and alto flute. The music was composed by Baxter.[1][2]
Upon its release designated it as "A Billboard Pick" and wrote: "This is a real swinger from start to finish. . . . The treatments are colorful, and the sound is excellent. . . . Buffs and bugs will take to this."[3]
Track listing
Side 1
- "Brazilia"
- "Rain Forest"
- "Papagayo"
- "Amazon Falls"
- "Coco"
- "Carnival Merengue"
Side 2
- "Isle of Cuba"
- "Blue Jungle"
- "Voodoo Dreams"
- "One Thousand Cockatoos"
- "Go Chango"
- "Jungle Brava"
References
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Les Baxter
- Music Out of the Moon (1947)
- Ritual of the Savage (1951)
- The Passions (1954)
- Tamboo! (1955)
- Caribbean Moonlight (1957)
- Skins! Bongo Party with Les Baxter (1957)
- 'Round the World with Les Baxter (1957)
- Space Escapade (1958)
- African Jazz (1959)
- Les Baxter's Jungle Jazz (1959)
- The Sacred Idol (1960)
- Jewels of the Sea (1961)
- "Because of You"
- "Blue Tango"
- "April in Portugal"
- "Ruby"
- "I Love Paris"
- "The High and the Mighty"
- "Unchained Melody"
- "Wake the Town and Tell the People"
- "The Poor People of Paris"