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ENTRETIENS SUR LA MUSIQUE ET LE CINÉMA BOOK :.
This
is a new book on the works of Lalo Schifrin, not only as
soundtrack composer but as a jazz musician.
Information:
Author: Georges Michel
Release Date: January 2006
Number of Pages: 208 pages, 200 images in colours and b&w
Publisher: Éditions Rouge Profound
Language: French
More information on the publisher's webpage:
Éditions Rouge Profound
Product Description:
Lalo Schifrin is one of
the most important composers of modern cinema (Joy House,
Bullitt, The Fox, The Beguiled, Dirty Harry, La Pelle) but also
of Hollywood as a whole, from fantastic or SF movies like The
Amityville Horror, THX 1138, to Enter The Dragon (Tarantino
never kept it secret that he really liked the music of this
film) and Rush Hour, not to mention the scores for cult TV
series like Mannix, Starsky & Hutch and Mission : Impossible.
Prolific creator of scores for the screen (more than three
hundred), he is also a jazz musician. Indeed, he was, as a
pianist, a composer and an arranger, one of the privileged
fellow musicians of Dizzy Gillespie – for whom he wrote, in
1961, the famous Gillespiana. He also produced classic works and
contemporary pieces for strings. |
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Georges Michel met
Schifrin in Los Angeles. For
a week, the artist evoked his years of apprenticeship, his
association with the jazz scene, his ideas about film music, his
own methods of composition, the amazing people he worked with
such as René Clément, John Sturges, Don Siegel, John Boorman,
George Lucas, Clint Eastwood, and Peter Yates. He told
fascinating anecdotes about the personalities of those he was
involved with (Gillespie, Count Basie, Quincy Jones…), going
back on his stormy relations with Friedkin on The Exorcist of
which he wrote the first score. The book, which lists the
complete discography of the artist, is completed by an important
iconography.
It is the first worldwide publication dedicated to
Lalo Schifrin that gave
access to rare documents such as pages of famous scores, a
letter from Norman Jewison recalling his collaboration with the
musician on The Kid of Cincinnati, the working session of The
Osterman Weekend during which we can follow a conversation
between Sam Peckinpah and the composer.
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