Lalo Schifrin - The Cool Of Lalo Schifrin '2024

Tracks list

Tracklist:

1. Gillespiana Suite Prelude (05:02)
2. Gillespiana Suite Blues (10:56)
3. Gillespiana Suite Panamericana (06:25)
4. Gillespiana Suite Africana (06:56)
5. Gillespiana Suite Toccata (13:40)
6. Caravan (09:28)


 Read MoreGillespianaBorn Boris Claudio Schifrin in Buenos Aires in 1932,
Schifrin grew up with a father who played violin with the Teatro Colón
Orchestra. When Lalo was six years old, his dad arranged for him to begin
studying piano with Enrique Barenboim, father of celebrated pianist/conductor
Daniel Barenboim. As a teenager, he studied piano with the former head of the
Kiev Conservatory, Andreas Karalis, and harmony with composer Juan Carlos Paz.
After winning a scholarship to the Paris Conservatory in the early '50s, he
studied with French composers Charles Koechlin and Olivier Messiaen. In his off
hours, he played in Parisian jazz clubs, and in 1955, he represented Argentina
in the Paris International Jazz Festival. After returning to Buenos Aires, he
started his own 16-piece, Basie-style jazz band, the first of its kind in
Argentina, and found work as a pianist and arranger. His status as a bandleader
helped him meet Dizzy Gillespie in 1956, and Schifrin offered to write a suite
for Gillespie. He completed the five-movement Gillespiana in 1958, the same year
he became an arranger for Xavier Cugat. In 1960, Schifrin moved to New York City
and joined Gillespie's quintet, which recorded Gillespiana to much acclaim. He
became Gillespie's musical director until 1962, contributing another suite, The
New Continent, before leaving the position to concentrate on his writing.
Schifrin accepted his first film-scoring assignment in the U.S. in 1963 (Rhino!)
and moved to Hollywood, soon finding a niche composing for both TV and the
silver screen. In the meantime, he composed works marked by his jazz-classical
fusion style, including the 1963 ballet Jazz Faust and 1965's Jazz Suite on the
Mass Texts.

Cool Hand Luke [Original Soundtrack Recording]After establishing himself on
episodes of television series such as The Alfred Hitchcock Hour and The Man from
U.N.C.L.E., Schifrin joined the music department of the spy series Mission:
Impossible. It premiered on CBS in 1966 and featured his catchy 5/4 instrumental
"Theme from Mission: Impossible," a track that would live on in TV-music
collections for decades to come. He followed it a year later with his theme to
Mannix, around the same time he was becoming known for his jazzy scores to
high-profile crime films such as Cool Hand Luke (1967) and Bullitt (1968). He
earned his first Academy Award nomination for Cool Hand Luke and his second a
year later for the D.H. Lawrence drama The Fox. Schifrin composed the music for
the Don Siegel-directed Coogan's Bluff, starring Clint Eastwood, in 1968. He
reunited with the pair on 1971's Dirty Harry and went on to write music for four
of the five remaining films in the series, which extended through the '80s
(1976's The Enforcer was composed by Jerry Fielding). During that time span, he
also wrote scores for films as diverse as the 1976 war film Voyage of the Damned
(his third Oscar nomination), Disney's The Cat from Outer Space from 1978, and
the 1979 horror classic The Amityville Horror (his fourth Oscar nomination). He
received two more Academy Award nominations in the '80s, for The Competition
(1980) and The Sting II (1983).

While he continued to write frequently for movies and TV, Schifrin returned some
of his focus to classical works during the '90s, a decade that saw the release
of the first three in a series of orchestral jazz albums called Jazz Meets the
Symphony. He also arranged much of the music for the first three of the Three
Tenors concerts. In 1996, his Mission: Impossible theme reached another
generation when it was repurposed for a series of films starring Tom Cruise.
U2's Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen, Jr. produced a dance version of the theme
that reached the Top Ten of the singles charts in the U.S. and U.K. Still
writing original material for film, beginning in 1998, Schifrin provided playful
orchestral scores for the first three entries in the Rush Hour series, starring
Jackie Chan.

After the SunsetSchifrin stayed active in Hollywood in his seventies, scoring
films such as the crime film After the Sunset and the horror movie Abominable
(directed by his son, Ryan Schifrin), in addition to Rush Hour 3 in the 2000s.
The third, fourth, and fifth Mission: Impossible films saw release during the
2010s, as did the Schifrin-scored romantic comedy Love Story (2011) and
basketball bio-pic Sweetwater (2016). ~ Marcy Donelson



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