Lalo Schifrin:the Legendary Paris Concert

It’s never been easy to pigeonhole Lalo Schifrin. The four-time Grammy-winning Argentinian composer created one of the most memorable television themes of all time with his “Mission: Impossible,” recorded jazz albums for labels including Verve and Creed Taylor’s CTI, worked with Count Basie, Cannonball Adderley and Sarah Vaughan, and scored innumerable films, racking up six Oscar nominations in the process. Now, Demon Music Group has reissued two lost gems of the Schifrin oeuvre, both originally recorded for Clarence Avant’s Tabu label, for the first time on CD. Gypsies (1978) and No One Home (1979) have recently arrived in deluxe, casebound expanded editions as part of Demon’s long-running Tabu series.

It’s never been easy to pigeonhole Lalo Schifrin. The four-time Grammy-winning Argentinian composer created one of the most memorable television themes of all time with his “Mission: Impossible,” recorded jazz albums for labels including Verve and Creed Taylor’s CTI, worked with Count Basie, Cannonball Adderley and Sarah Vaughan, and scored innumerable films, racking up six Oscar nominations in the process. Now, Demon Music Group has reissued two lost gems of the Schifrin oeuvre, both originally recorded for Clarence Avant’s Tabu label, for the first time on CD. Gypsies (1978) and No One Home (1979) have recently arrived in deluxe, casebound expanded editions as part of Demon’s long-running Tabu series.

Oh, not another Dvořák Cello Concerto recording, you would be justified in asking. Well, yes and no. This is indeed a special one, but not only for the superb performance the German-Canadian cellist Johannes Moser gives with the Prague Philharmonia under Jakub Hrůša of this most popular of all cello concertos. What makes this disc practically indispensable is its inclusion of the less frequently heard Lalo concerto in the best account I have heard since Pierre Fournier recorded it many years ago with Jean Martinon and the Lamoureux Orchestra for DG.

Second in a series of Polish anthology releases. The third disc is a computer drive/DVD compatible video disc featuring portions of a live concert in Germany filmed January 11, 1989…

Bill Evans - Live In Paris, 1972 Vol. 1 (1988) {Esoldun France FCD 107}
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© 1972, 1988 Esoldun / France's Concert | FCD 107
Jazz / Cool / Modal Music / Piano

The first of two CDs recorded for broadcast from a February, 1972 Paris Concert, this 45-minute set captures the Bill Evans Trio in excellent form, although the mood of this portion of the concert seems rather reserved overall. Evans opens with one of his favorite originals, "Re: Person I Knew," which is much slower than typical but absolutely captivating. Also notable are the dramatic "Turn Out the Stars" and top-notch versions of Scott LaFaro's "Gloria's Step" and Michel Legrand's timeless "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?" The overall melancholy mood of this performance adds a new dimension to several of the pieces within it.