PR: Lalo Schifrin's Invocations: Jazz Meets the Symphony No. 7
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Latest Entry In Lalo Schifrin’s Multiple Grammy-Nominated Series
Will Be Released April 12th
(March 1, 2011 – Los Angeles, CA) Aleph Records will release the
latest title in the multiple Grammy©-nominated series, Jazz Meets the
Symphony, on April 12, 2011. The seventh recording of the series,
Invocations, features original compositions and arrangements by Lalo
Schifrin, who earned his fifth Grammy Award this past fall at the
Latin Grammy Awards.
Invocations: Jazz Meets the Symphony #7 was recorded in Prague with
the Czech National Symphony Orchestra, Ltd. in 2010. World Renowned
Jazz Musicians James Morrison, Tom Gordon, Pierre Boussaguet, and
Schifrin are the featured soloists.
Few composers have been able to successfully navigate the diverse
worlds of classical music, jazz, and film music. It is Schifrin’s
ability to switch musical gears which makes him so unique in the music
world. His music is a synthesis of traditional and twentieth-century
techniques, and his early love for jazz and rhythm are strong
attributes of his style.
Schifrin described:
The taste of an apple is in the contact between the fruit and the
palate. Music is the relationship between the contact of the piece
with the soul of the listener. The essential thing is the esthetic
part, the thrill of the physical impression which is being provoked.
Music imposes its magic through the constant necessity of variations,
which can recapture one’s past or prefigure one’s future.
Jazz Meets the Symphony #7 is an exciting compilation of different
works that I have put together in a combination of original
compositions and some arrangements, which include classics that I
performed with Dizzy Gillespie for three years. The Greek
civilization used to invoke the Muses, while we talk about
inspiration. The sense of both viewpoints is the same.
From the outset Jazz Meets the Symphony testified to Lalo Schifrin’s
sparkling vision as well as his genius. The series originally debuted
in 1993, combining the London Philharmonic with jazz stars Ray Brown,
Grady Tate, Jon Faddis, Paquito D’Rivera, James Morrison, and of
course Lalo Schifrin, himself.
“Thinking back, I believe the start of this project was really two of
my early film scores,” said Schifrin, “namely, The Cincinnati Kid, in
which Ray Charles sang backed by a symphony orchestra, and the famous
chase scene through the streets of San Francisco in Bullitt wherein I
wrote a symphonic score combined with saxophone solos playing at very
fast tempos. Then, years later, when I arranged music for Dizzy
Gillespie, Ray Brown, Grady Tate and myself to play for a tour with
the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, I began to fully realize that the
two distinct musical forms could be combined.”
An internationally successful recording, Jazz Meets The Symphony
earned a Grammy Award and spawned its first sequel More Jazz Meets the
Symphony a year later. Other recordings include: Firebird: Jazz Meets
the Symphony, No. 3 (which received two Grammy nominations),
Metamorphosis, Intersections: Jazz Meets the Symphony, No. 5
(featuring a full symphony orchestra, full jazz band, and jazz stars
Jeff Hamilton, Christian McBride, James Morrison and David Sanchez),
and Kaleidoscope: Jazz Meets the Symphony No. 6 (performed and
recorded by Schifrin in Sydney, Australia with the Sydney Symphony
Orchestra). To date, the Jazz Meets The Symphony series has earned
Schifrin 4 Grammy nominations.
Composer Lalo Schifrin is a true Renaissance man. As a pianist,
composer and conductor, he is equally at home conducting a symphony
orchestra, performing at an international jazz festival, scoring a
film or television show.
As a young man in his native Argentina, Lalo Schifrin received
classical training in music, and also studied law. He came from a
musical family, and his father, Luis Schifrin, was the concertmaster
of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Buenos Aires at the Teatro Colon.
Lalo Schifrin continued his formal music education at the Paris
Conservatory during the early 1950’s. Simultaneously, he became a
professional jazz pianist, composer and arranger, playing and
recording in Europe.
When Schifrin returned to Buenos Aires in the mid 1950’s, he formed
his own big concert band. It was during a performance of this band
that Dizzy Gillespie heard Schifrin play and asked him to become his
pianist and arranger. In 1958, Schifrin moved to the United States and
thus began a remarkable career.
Schifrin has written over 100 film and television scores including
Mission Impossible, Mannix, Cool Hand Luke, Bullitt,The Cincinnati
Kid, Amityville Horror, four of the Dirty Harry films, and more
recently Abominable and the Rush Hourtrilogy. Lalo Schifrin has won
five Grammys® (twenty-two nominations), one Cable ACE Award, and six
Academy Award® nominations.
TRACK LISTING
1. Trombone Fantasy -- Lalo Schifrin
2. Groovin’ High -- Dizzy Gillespie arr. Schifrin
3. Invocations -- Lalo Schifrin
4. Summer Dance -- Lalo Schifrin
5. Reverie -- Debussy arr. Schifrin
6. Etude In Rhythm -- Lalo Schifrin
7. Here ‘Tis -- Dizzy Gillespie arr. Schifrin
Performed by the Czech National Symphony Orchestra
Featured Soloists: James Morrison (trumpet, trombone); Schifrin
(piano); Pierre Boussaguet (bass); Tom Gordon (drums)
Liner notes: Richard Palmer (author and staff writer/reviewer for Jazz
Journal)
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