Genres: Bop, Soundtracks, Film Music, Original Score, Spy Music Active: 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's, 2000's Born: June 21, 1932 in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Olivier Messiaen, Dizzy Gillespie, Henry Mancini, Thelonious Monk, Bernard Herrmann, Gil Evans, Duke Ellington, Bix Beiderbecke, Alec Wilder, Billy May, Miles Davis, Xavier Cugat, Count Basie, Astor Piazzolla, Elmer Bernstein, Andrés Segovia Soulstance, David Holmes, Gato Barbieri, Portishead, Carnival in Coal, The Black Dog, Connie Price & the Keystones, Mario Castro-Neves, Janet Vodka, Thievery Corporation, The Herbaliser, Hans Zimmer, Michel Colombier, David Arnold, Giorgio Moroder, David Axelrod, José Roberto Bertrami, The Lounge Lizards, Danny Elfman |  |
Best known for his "Mission: Impossible" theme song, Lalo Schifrin is an Argentinean-born composer, arranger, pianist, and conductor, whose jazz and classical training earned him tremendous success as a soundtrack composer. Born Boris Claudio Schifrin in Buenos Aires on June 21, 1932, his father was a symphonic violinist, and he began playing piano at age six. He enrolled in the Paris Conservatoire in 1952, hitting the jazz scene by night. After returning to Buenos Aires, Schifrin formed a 16-piece jazz orchestra, which helped him meet Dizzy Gillespie in 1956. Schifrin offered to write Gillespie an extended suite, completing the five-movement Gillespiana in 1958; the same year, he became an arranger for Xavier Cugat. In 1960, he moved to New York City and joined Gillespie's quintet, which recorded "Gillespiana" to much general acclaim. Schifrin became Gillespie's musical director until 1962, contributing another suite in "The New Continent"; he subsequently departed to concentrate on his writing.
 |
|
Release: May 6, 2008
Label: Verve
|
 |
|
Release: October 30, 2007
Label: Video Arts
|
|
|
|
|
|
Buy CD