From the Movies

Les Baxter was accused of musical illiteracy and using ghostwriters, ignored by major film studios, and today his exotica music is considered culturally insensitive. But what talent. He was a classically trained composer, orchestrator and conductor who almost never turned down work. Besides selling millions of records with his highly original approach to musical scene-setting, he scored a great many films for the tiny American International Pictures, with ensembles of every size and using every musical style. Baxter made scores for comedies as well as dramas and horror pictures, and you'll hear that versatility in this collection. Here's a gorgeous collection of tracks from those films.