Jazz Articles about Lalo Schifrin

CTI Acid Jazz Grooves by Various Artists

by Arnaldo DeSouteiro
June 19, 2024

The CD you are holding in your hands is a very special compilation. It's the celebration of CTI as one of the most “sampled" labels on Earth! For the past ten years, many CTI tracks have been cut up, sampled, scratched and looped to create new songs for a new audience. Many of the selections on this album (all of them produced by Creed Taylor and engineered by Rudy Van Gelder) represented the basic inspiration and major influence in the ...

Lalo Schifrin: Bullitt: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

by Chris May
March 25, 2018

Here is a treat for jazz fans, cinephiles and audiophiles. A 180-gram vinyl remastered-edition, manufactured with analogue-only technology, of Lalo Schifrin's original soundtrack for Peter Yates's 1968 thriller Bullitt, starring Steve McQueen as a jazz-loving San Francisco police detective. Schifrin began his career as a jazz pianist in his native Argentina and continued as one when he moved to New York to join Dizzy Gillespie's quintet in 1960. He relocated to Los Angeles in 1963 and was soon ...

Best Reissues of 2004

by C. Andrew Hovan
December 31, 2004

Keeping with tradition, over the past few years this column has turned its attention to some of the best reissues of the past twelve months, looking carefully for any albums that might have been profiled here and subsequently made it to compact disc. Not surprisingly, the vault material still available for mining becomes increasingly less and less each year. Still, many fine reissues made their debut and the Japanese market remained a major source of inspiration. So while jazz ukulele ...

Lalo Schifrin's "Gillespiana" Thrills Yet Again

by J. Robert Bragonier
November 1, 2004

Wednesday evening, October 27th, a moderately filled Catalina Bar and Grill in Hollywood (and about eight members of Alfredo Cruz's UCLA Extension Latin Jazz class, including yours truly) attended the opening first show of Lalo Schifrin's dramatic “Gillespiana," featuring the colorful, stratospheric Gillespie disciple John Faddis on trumpet and the impeccable Tom Scott on alto sax and flute. The suite was very well received in no small part because of the quality of the soloists and band assembled for the ...

Lalo Schifrin: Return of the Marquis de Sade

by Jack Bowers
September 1, 2002

Return of the Marquis de Sade (Aleph)

After a number of big-band albums, most notably in the well-received “Jazz Meets the Symphony" series, composer / arranger / pianist Lalo Schifrin returns to a small(er)-group format for (most of) Return of the Marquis de Sade, an atmospheric sequel to his tongue-in-cheek album of more than three decades ago, The Dissection and Reconstruction of Music from the Past as Performed by the Inmates of Lalo Schifrin's Demented Ensemble as a Tribute to ...

Lalo Schifrin: Jazz Goes to Hollywood

by Jack Bowers
September 1, 2001

First, a round of applause to Lalo Schifrin for having introduced Jazz into so many of his film scores over the years. A number of his charming and well–crafted soundtrack themes have become best–selling hits for such Jazz artists as Jimmy Smith, Wes Montgomery and George Benson, which is a remarkable phenomenon in light of the fact that music written for films seldom translates well to other media. On Jazz Goes to Hollywood, the composer has enlisted the services of ...

Lalo Schifrin: Esperanto

by Jack Bowers
August 1, 2001

Composer / conductor Lalo Schifrin has chosen an interesting name for this ambitious work — a concerto grosso in six movements for big band and soloists — using Ludwig Zamenhof’s Esperanto as a metaphor from which to advance his belief that there is indeed a universal language, but that language is music, not esperanto or any other man–made tongue. If any proof of that were needed, Schifrin produces it in abundance with a series of remarkably colorful and readily accessible ...