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Lalo Schifrin - Magnum Force (1973) {Aleph Records 033 rel 2005}
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© 1973, 2005 Aleph Records | 033
Jazz / Classical / Jazz Funk / Soundtrack / Stage & Screen

A blast from the past in more ways than one, this 2005 release of Lalo Schifrin's complete 1973 score for Magnum Force is full of memories and associations for anyone who saw the Dirty Harry film, and full of curiosities for those who didn't. While Schifrin's music is undeniably dated and may be regarded by some today as hopelessly clichéd – the eerie, wordless choruses, funky bass lines, electric piano vamps, psychedelic tabla drumming, menacing organ chords, mellow lounge-piano stylings, and free jazz improvisations are part and parcel of the urban music used in movies and TV series of the time – the sheer variety of his materials and his efficient use of them to paint inner-city scenes is remarkable and unmistakably his.

Lalo Schifrin - Gillespiana (1998) {Aleph Records ‎002}
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© 1998 Aleph Enterprises Inc. | Aleph 002
Jazz / 20th-century Classical Music / Modern Big Band / Modern Arrangement

For the first jazz release on his self-run Aleph label, Schifrin flew to Cologne, Germany to record this solid remake of Gillespiana, his 1960 five-movement concerto for Dizzy Gillespie with which Schifrin had been touring earlier in 1996. Designed to illustrate the sources that inspired Gillespie's music, the work remains one of the chameleonic Schifrin's best in a big-band idiom, particularly the dynamic Afro-Cuban-flavored blues "Toccata" that closes the concerto.

The Aleph Guitar Quartet is one of the most interesting and innovative ensembles in the guitar world. They have performed groundbreaking pieces and have greatly strengthened the position of the guitar in the world of contemporary music. The pieces performed here have all been commissioned by the Quartet.