Just saw this batch*t crazy movie with Lee Marvin as a Chicago Mob Enforcer vs Gene Hackman as a Kansas Farm Mobster and LOVED the Schifrin score cues! Has any of this music ever been released on a compilation or in any form whatsoever?
Even when he does disco stuff, Lalo Schifrin was terrific as he always augmented the whole thing with great strings and counterpoint, as in GLITTER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwFA8u6NH0g
There could be so many Schifrin cd premieres Any of our companies working on these? Already mentioned: Prime Cut Love and Bullets Charley Varrick Starsky and Hutch Buddy Buddy Escape to Athena Special Delivery And: Murderer’s Row The C.A.T. Blindfold The Dark Intruder Who.’s Minding the Mint Hit! St. Ives The Master Gunfighter The Manitou Black Moon Rising The Nude Bomb After the Sunset Etc etc
I love Lalo Schifrin. Not just his film scores, but his jazz writing. Three of my favorite albums are the original Dizzy Gillespie album Gillespiana, Schifrin's first work after arriving in America, an album-length multi-movement work with each section composed to feature a different aspect of Gillespie's playing, scored for Gillespie's quintet plus a heavy brass section, added percussion, and NO woodwind section. A masterful work.
The second is the Grammy-winning work Jazz Suite on the Mass Texts for alto saxophonist/flutist Paul Horn.
The third is Rock Requiem. A rock mass.
There is a lot of great unreleased Lalo Schifrin--great work, you guys, with the samples, but I think Schifrin over extended himself in films at times and scored too many sub-par films. Still, many, many great film works--The Fox, Cool Hand Luke, Bullitt, The Cincinnati Kid, and so on. I like to judge film composers by their best work and Schifrin's best is way up there.
There is a lot of great unreleased Lalo Schifrin--great work, you guys, with the samples, but I think Schifrin over extended himself in films at times and scored too many sub-par films. Still, many, many great film works--The Fox, Cool Hand Luke, Bullitt, The Cincinnati Kid, and so on. I like to judge film composers by their best work and Schifrin's best is way up there.
Some of these tracks from Thierry I haven't heard and it's making me want to dig more into the history of this kind of music, because I'm realizing Lalo probably had more influence on this sound of the latter part of the 60's and into the 70's than I've probably thought. I can't think of anyone else as influential as him. In the same territory was Gil Mellé, and maybe to a lesser extent, Patrick Williams and Frank Comstock, in terms of TV composers. Maybe Michel Legrand for film?
Some of these tracks from Thierry I haven't heard and it's making me want to dig more into the history of this kind of music, because I'm realizing Lalo probably had more influence on this sound of the latter part of the 60's and into the 70's than I've probably thought. I can't think of anyone else as influential as him. In the same territory was Gil Mellé, and maybe to a lesser extent, Patrick Williams and Frank Comstock, in terms of TV composers. Maybe Michel Legrand for film?
This is so refreshing to speak about Lalo Schifrin on this board....his influence on the way film music evolved in the late 60ies/early 70ies is indeed immense and totally underrated. So thanks for the launch of this PRIME CUT thread from the original poster. May be we should rename it: "LALO SCHIFRIN appreciation"
Schifrin is a total master of his art and, as Michel Legrand, is a total music artist: he can do everything: jazz, funk, disco, classical, film and TV music, avant-garde atonal, ethnics...plus that, exactly as Michel Legrand, he is a fabulous pianist!
I was privileged enough to see him twice in live concert with full orchestra, the first time in Paris in 2007 and the second time in London in 2008. The live performance of the ENTER THE DRAGON suite with that strings reprise was absolutely incredible.
I will never stop to share my enthusisam for the man and his music. Through his own Aleph Records CD label, he did release many previously unreleased scores like SKY RIDERS.
All the main labels have tried to enhance his discography over the years: thanks to Intrada and Lalaland and FSM. Oddly enough, very low interest for Lalo Schifrin stuff from the guys at Varese Sarabande at the times of Chris Küchler, Tom Null or even Robert Townson. Never understood. May be legal access issues to his catalogue I don't know? Except RUSH HOUR, I don't see any Varese edition in my Schifrin CD collection. There also was THE OSTERMAN WEEK-END on LP back in the 80ies that comes to mind.
Some people here think I am a poor negative old troll who bashes all curent film music output (see other threads), but this is not true....I am passionate for good film and TV music for about 40 years + and those who know me may second this....so I am open to any new talent.
One of my favorites is Che! A terrible film. Still, Schifrin wrote one of the most touching main titles of his career--a dirge powered by flutes that overlays optimism with the tragic.
The original album on Tetragrammaton has never been released in full on CD. Aleph took all of those tracks, minus two, and then added a few others. The memorable main title--along with the infectious "recuerdos"--both made it to the Aleph recording.
Oh man....so many awesome scores still waiting. I hope QUARTET and INTRADA are listening , they already released such fantastic ones like HARRY IN YOUR POCKET_THE PRESIDENT`S ANALYST_JOE KIDD_COOGAN`S BLUFF...and I guess they sold pretty well..some are out of stock ...so....come on..let the groove start again.
Lukas ...Do the second Volume of your fantastic Schifrin Anthology FSM Package.That was such a great release...!!!!!
I did already ask him the same, but Lukas replied it's not likely to happen.
May we still hope separate discs from Intrada, Lalaland and Quartet....like those terrific RETURN TO WITCH MOUNTAIN, AIRPORT 79 CONCORDE and HARRY IN YOUR POCKET CDs ...just to name titles released by each of these 3 labels.
One question haunts me: does Lalo Schifin sells? I hope he does....
Yes...I know it won't happen with Lukas...but I have hopes for CHARLY VARRICK and hopefully BUDDY BUDDY (2 of my last holy grails ...highest in rank )...after SHAMUS and all those beauties have been released, which have been considered lost... Schifrin , Gruisin, Jones, Budd ( of whom everything has been released, I guess )...are the COOL GROOVE DUDES . And even people like Holmes and Walfish are trying....which is nice....they just dont have the mojo working. Don't know what it is....maybe the instruments..maybe the players...or simply the writing itself.
So everything from the bigining up to 1983 by Schifrin is on my wishlist.After 1983 the disco influence and electric drums are just not my cup ....
