Good morning. Today we’re listening to Lalo Schifrin, an Argentinian pianist and composer. Schifrin grew up in Buenos Aires and at 20 won a piano scholarship to the Conservatoire de Paris. His early records were recorded with a big band in Buenos Aires, of which we’re playing 1962’s
Lalo Schifrin
This was great timing because I don’t watch cable tv very much any more but I happened to be by one last night and Bullet was on the TCM channel.
Lalo’s funky cinematic sound is iconic and you can hear how people tried to emulate this sound for libraries in that era.