Hi gang: And don't forget that Schifrin is one of the few soundtrack composers with major league jazz credentials. He was the pianist in Dizzy Gilelspie's quintet in the early 1960s (preceding Kenny Baron) and did some fine work on LPs such as the big band session Gillespiana on Verve. Today's fascinating factoid. Ken Waxman --- Efrén del Valle <efrendv@yahoo.es> wrote: > Hi Rafa and all, Lalo Schifrin has very good soundtracks. I particularly like "Bullitt" (who was the guitar player on that?) and "Dirty Harry". From the latter there's a good compilation on Warner (not the one on Aleph!!) and I also saw a very cheap 2cd box including "Bullitt" and "Enter the Dragon" some years ago.
--- ahleucha ahleucha <ahleucha_79@yahoo.es> escribió: >
Hi,
I'm wondering if this has already been discussed,
I
hope no. Lately, I have seen amazing japanese films with delightful music. I'm wondering what do you think of the soundtracks genre and your favorite albums or composers.
Morricone is certainly amazing, particularly until the late 70's, imho. His discography is full of classics, so you better not get into it unless you want to invest some big money! I love the spaghetti western stuff: "The Good, the bad and the Ugly", "A fistful of dollars", "The Big Gundown", the Mondo Morricone compilations (except for the third volume; I'm not sure if they're still in print but they've been reissued on vinyl); Dagored has reissued lots of Morricone material from the 70's, mostly low-budget thrillers and loungey stuff (you can find tones of that in Barcelona in Wah-Wah records on cd or vinyl at good prices) Lalo Schifrin has very good soundtracks. I particularly like "Bullitt" (who was the guitar player on that?) and "Dirty Harry". From the latter there's a good compilation on Warner (not the one on Aleph!!) and I also saw a very cheap 2cd box including "Bullitt" and "Enter the Dragon" some years ago. I recently found Burt Bacharach's "After the Fox" on MGM. It's a great record, imho, but unfortunately it's out of print (you can also find that at Disco 100. Sorry about the local info!). And one of my most-listened-to soundtracks last year was the reissue of Bernard Hermann's "The Day the Earth Stood Still", in the event you're into sci-fi/theremin stuff. RCA Spain is issuing very good old sountrack works by Henry Mancini, Hugo Montenegro, Neal Hefti, etc at ridiculously low prices with good remastering work (Discos Balada in this case, 7-9)
I also like Krzysztof Komeda, the stuff on tzadik by Ribot ( I'm going to buy Ikue Mori B/Side, what about other filmworks to pick up on tzadik?), Nino Rota or Jerry Goldsmith's Chinatown.
In Ribot's case, I prefer the first volume, "Shoe String Symphonettes" to the latest. I found "B/Side" to be quite minimalistic and I ended up getting bored. Evan Lurie's "How I Spent my Vacation" is a lovely record, nothing challenging at all, just beautiful music: smooth jazz, piano solos, classical guitar, ... Fred Frith's "Eye to Ear" is amazing, much better than the second one, imho. Some stuff in the vein of "Pacifica", noise, etc. Great, great album. I also like Steve Beresford's "Cue Sheets". I don't know his work very well, but according to what I had listened to, I was expecting something in the vein of free-improv or something, but it's actually a mish-mash of styles ranging from tango to cabaret to jazz. And anything from Zorn's Filmwork series, of course!
Sorry about the lenght and local information.
Best,
Efrén del Valle n.p: JZ "Hemophiliac" (Tzadik)
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