LALO SCHIFRIN – My Life in Music [TrackList follows] – Aleph Records 4-CD Set ALEPH47 [5 hours+] (Distr. by Allegro) ****:
Another release that spans many of our categories: Lalo Schifrin has crammed an amazing variety of composing, arranging, conducting and performing in jazz, classical and film music into his 80 years of life. This 4-CD set brings together a huge cross-section of original music by Schifrin, including previously unreleased music from several films. There was a previous similar 4-CD boxed set on the Varese Sarabande label, but the selections on this one are different.
While Schifrin is mainly noted for his 50-second Mission Impossible theme, he also scored such films as Dirty Harry, Enter the Dragon, Cool Hand Luke, Mannix, and Bullitt. He composed more than 60 classical works and wrote over 100 film and TV scores. He performed with Dizzy Gillespie and Gillespie commissioned Gillespiana from him. He worked with Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Placido Domingo, Zubin Mehta, Dianna Ross, Paquito D’Rivera, Ray Brown, His music often shows his early love of jazz and rhythm, and many of his works combine traditional and 20th-century techniques, such as his several Jazz Meets The Symphony recordings. Lalo Schifrin has won five Grammys and had 22 Grammy nominations, as well as six Academy Award nominations.
The set spans 50 years of musical accomplishment and is a collection of diverse tracks from various sources. Eight of the tracks are previously unreleased, though some do sound just a bit thrown together. Most of the film and TV selections are the main title music or themes, and strictly instrumental, but a couple have vocals, such as one by Ray Charles on a tune from The Cincinnati Kid. Since Schifrin is a native of Argentina, there are selections that tie into that, such as a tango from Letters from Argentina. There are several excerpts from his seven albums titled Jazz Meets the Symphony (which was nominated for a Grammy). Various orchestras are heard in these CDs, including the Sydney Symphony and the Czech National Orchestra, and some notable jazz soloists such as Christian McBride. If the excerpts from Nos. 3, 4, 5, 6 & 7 of this series whet your appetite for more, they are all available on his Aleph label. No. 6 is subtitled “Kaleidoscope” and is ALEPH034; No. 7 is “Invocations” is is ALEPH045.
TrackLists:
| Disc: 1 |
| 1. Enter The Dragon Main Title |
| 2. Samba Para Dos from Bossa Nova Groove |
| 3. The Fox Main Title |
| 4. The Eagle Has Landed Eagle Falls In Love |
| 5. Rhino Transporting Rhino |
| 6. Fast Walking Main Title |
| 7. Burning Bridges from Kellys Heroes Vocals The Mike Curb Congregation |
| 8. Invisible City from Metamorphosis Jazz Meets The Symphony #4 |
| 9. Dirty Harry Main Title |
| 10. The Cincinnati Kid New Orleans Procession |
| 11. Caveman End Title |
| 12. Abominable There Is Something Out There |
| 13. Cool Hand Luke Main Title |
| 14. Telefon main Title |
| 15. The Dead Pool The Pier, The Bridge, and The City |
| 16. Love Poem For Donna from Ins and Outs |
| 17. Charley Varrick Bank Robbery Previously Unreleased |
| 18. Bullitt Main Title |
| 19. Coogans Bluff Main Title Previously Unreleased |
| 20. Rush Hour End Title |
| Disc: 2 |
| 1. Joe Kidd Main Title Previously Unreleased |
| 2. Cool Hand Luke Tar Sequence |
| 3. The Osterman Weekend The Face Of Love |
| 4. Rollercoaster Calliope Of Death |
| 5. Kellys Heroes All For The Love Of Sunshine |
| 6. The Venetian Affair Venice After Dark |
| 7. Dirty Harry Scorpios View |
| 8. The Statue Of Liberty March from Those Fabulous Hollywood Marches |
| 9. Brubaker Theme From Brubaker |
| 10. The Cincinnati Kid Instrumental Version Lalo Schifrin, Piano |
| 11. Something to Believe In The Miracle |
| 12. The Beguiled Amputation Aftermath |
| 13. Che Che! |
| 14. El Dorado from Firebird Jazz Meets The Symphony #3 |
| 15. Sudden Impact Main Title |
| 16. The Wrath Of God Pablito Guitarra Padre Van Horne |
| 17. Magnum Force Magnum Force |
| 18. The Amityville Horror Main Title |
| 19. Coogans Bluff Take Me to Ringerman Previously Unreleased |
| 20. Return Of The Marquis de Sade Justine |
| 21. Mission Impossible The Plot |
| Disc: 3 |
| 1. The Cincinnati Kid Vocals Ray Charles |
| 2. Cool Hand Luke Arlette Blues |
| 3. Les Felins Main Title |
| 4. The Fourth Protocol Main Title |
| 5. Spooks The Forces Of Darkness |
| 6. The Beguilded Finding McB Previously Unreleased |
| 7. Mannix Theme from Mannix |
| 8. Bulitt Ice Pick Mike |
| 9. Return Of The Marquis de Sade Bach to the Blues |
| 10. Magnum Force Main Title |
| 11. Tango del Atardecer from Letters from Argentina |
| 12. Joe Kidd Chama Previously Unreleased |
| 13. Rollercoaster Movement From String Quartette |
| 14. Summer Dance from Invocations Jazz Meets The Symphony #7 |
| 15. Don Quixote My Lord Don Quixote End Title |
| 16. Rage Main Title Previously Unreleased |
| 17. Let Us Leave Some Songs from Cantos Aztecas |
| 18. La Pelle Tema DAmore |
| 19. Charley Varrick Last Of The Independents Previously Unreleased |
| 20. Sudden Impact Robbery Suspect |
| 21. Rush Hour Main Title |
| Disc: 4 |
| 1. Concorde Airport 79 Suite |
| 2. Paraphrase from Kaleidoscope Jazz Meets The Symphony #6 |
| 3. Panamericana from Gillespiana |
| 4. Once a Thief from Jazz Goes To Hollywood |
| 5. Resonances from Esperanto |
| 6. Montuno from Latin Jazz Suite |
| 7. People Alone The Competition from Jazz Goes to Hollywood |
| 8. Intersections from Intersections Jazz Meets The Symphony #5 |
| 9. Agnus Dei from Jazz Mass |
| 10. Toccata from Gillespiana |
| 11. Mission Impossible from Jazz Goes to Hollywood |
—John Sunier
