Les Baxter

I love doing concert music.

I was working all the time I was in college. I was working so much that I could hardly do my college work.

I aim my arrangements at what will fit and colorfully frame the song in the best way possible.

Percussion is physical, as most instruments are. The body must function well in order to play the instruments well. Last year I climbed Mount Kilimanjaro.

I would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.

My father loved Brazilian football, a diehard follower, so of course, he hated Germany and always rooted against them, always.