Results for "Lalo Schifrin"

Video

Tribute to Lalo Schifrin for the Healthcare Community

Featuring the music of Lalo Schifrin
Duration: 7:19
June 9, 2020

The composer and pianist Jean-Michel Bernard brought together 12 + 1 of the best world jazz pianists of all generations to reinterpret the themes of Mission Impossible and Mannix, the classical pianist Anne Queffélec being joined with the wild horde made up notably of the legendary Bob James, to offer a tasty extract from a piece by Erik Satie. Cherry on the cake, Lalo Schifrin himself presents his piano compositions from his home in Los Angeles. Pianiste is a partner in the project, as well as Steinway & Sons, l'UCMF, La Baule film music festival and La Sacem. This video pays tribute to medical personnel around the world in line with the first with "Georgia on my mind".

Article: Building a Jazz Library

Afrobeat: An Alternative Top Ten

by Chris May
May 5, 2020

It would be hard if not impossible to compile an Afrobeat Top Ten which was not wholly made up of Fela Anikulapo Kuti albums. Such was Kuti's centrality in the creation and development of Afrobeat, such was the productivity of his recording career--his catalogue totals more than fifty albums, not counting reissues and compilations--and such was ...

Article: Album Review

Chip Wickham: Blue To Red

by Chris May
April 20, 2020

The marketing thrust accompanying Chip Wickham's third album emphasises an affinity between the disc and the late 1960s / early 1970s work of Yusef Lateef and Alice Coltrane. Certainly, Blue To Red ticks two boxes: Wickham puts aside his saxophone to play only flute and alto flute, whose seraphic tones were favoured by Lateef and Coltrane; ...

Musician

Lalo Schifrin

Born: June 21, 1932

Lalo Schifrin is a true Renaissance man. As a pianist, composer and conductor, he is equally at home conducting a symphony orchestra, performing at an international jazz festival, scoring a film or television show, or creating works for the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, the London Philharmonic, and even The Sultan of Oman.

As a young man in his native Argentina, Lalo Schifrin received classical training in music, and also studied law. He came from a musical family, and his father, Luis Schifrin, was the concertmaster of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Buenos Aires at the Teatro Colon.

Album

Bullitt: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

By Lalo Schifrin

Label: Speakers Corner
Released: 2018
Track listing: Bullitt (Main Title); Room 26; Hotel Daniels; The Aftermath Of Love; Music To Interrogate By; On The Way To San Mateo; Ice Pick Mike; A Song For Cathy; Shifting Gears; Cantata For Combo; The First Snowfall; Bullitt (End Title).

Article: Live Review

Brian Charette Trio with Ed Cherry at The Turning Point Cafe

by David A. Orthmann
July 23, 2018

Brian Charette Trio with Ed Cherry The Turning Point Cafe Piermont, NY July 15, 2018 Eight selections into an eighty-minute set Brian Charette looked over at Ed Cherry and asked what kind of ballad he wanted to play. In an instant Cherry answered with his guitar, kicking off Duke Ellington's “In ...

Article: Album Review

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 ...

Article: Album Review

Bob Wagner: Toot Suite

by Nicholas F. Mondello
February 23, 2018

There have been many composers on both sides of the classical-jazz continuum who have attempted to blend those genres. Igor Stravinsky, Leonard Bernstein, Darius Milhaud, Duke Ellington, Lalo Schifrin, Jorge Calandrelli, and others have explored the parallels and differences. In 1980, French jazz pianist/composer, Claude Bolling composed “Toot Suite" for the great French ...

Article: In the Studio

Three Days At The Barber Shop, Part 3

by David A. Orthmann
September 10, 2016

Rehearsal | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 When I walk into the live room, a little early, on Day 3, Gillespie has already swapped out the piano for a Hammond B-3 organ and Leslie speaker. Three boom mics are positioned in the area closest to the window to the control room. ...

Article: Book Review

Drummer Stan Levey Improvised His Life with a Steady Beat

by Victor L. Schermer
April 16, 2016

Stan Levey: Jazz Heavyweight Frank R. Hayde 224 Pages ISBN: # 13-978-1595800862 Santa Monica Press 2016 The word “Heavyweight" in the title of this fast-paced biography of the late great jazz drummer Stan Levey is not just a metaphor for his reputation as a musician. Levey, in addition ...