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recommended listenin':
MAGNUM FORCE
DIRTY HARRY
ENTER THE DRAGON
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Great Schifrin soundtracks:
1) Cool Hand Luke. A masterpiece that blends orchestral scoring with folk, bluegrass, and blues. And a GREAT main theme.
2) The Fox. Chamber music. Slow, seductive, chilly. Another GREAT theme.
3) Bullitt. Cool, urban cop vibe. Yet another GREAT theme.
4) The Cincinnati Kid. New Orleans jazz, blues, harmonica. And once again a GREAT theme.
5) Mannix. Every track on this album is catchy as it gets.
6) The MGM Schifrin box will keep you on a Schifrin kick for a long time.
7) The Four Musketeers. Orchestral, witty, romantic, and a really GREAT theme.
On all of the above, get the original recordings, which are better than the re-recordings.
I could go on, and many of Lalo's best works are not soundtracks:
1) Gillespiana--the original Dizzy Gillespie album. The entire album is a suite composed and arranged by Schifrin and, for Schifrin's first work in the U.S., it is bold, original, and sounds just as good today as it did in 1960.
2) Jazz Suite on the Mass Texts.
3) Rock Requiem
4) Schifrin/Sade.
I could go on . . .
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Oh, and one other Lalo Schifrin score of note. His score fro Che! is incredible, and that main theme with the pan flutes and guitar playing over the dirge really sticks in your head.
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