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Lalo Schifrin
From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Artist
Lalo Schifrin, from Buenos Aires, studied classical music, including in Paris, and played jazz piano. In the US he became Dizzy Gillespie's pianist and arranger. From the mid-1960s he worked in Hollywood. His theme for the TV series Mission: Impossible (1966) is in an unusual 5/4 time. It became one of the best-known TV themes. In films such as Cool Hand Luke (1967), Bullitt (1968) and Dirty Harry (1971) he mixed jazz, funk, Latin and orchestra. In this way the sound of the American police film came into being. For Enter the Dragon (1973) he added Asian sounds to funk rhythms.
Listening
Listening tip. Notice the unusual time signature of Mission: Impossible and the funk bass, flute and brass stabs in Bullitt.
Mission: Impossible · Lalo Schifrin, 1966
Bullitt (Main Title) · Lalo Schifrin, 1968
Main Titles · Lalo Schifrin, 1973- Mission: Impossible Theme · Lalo Schifrin, 1966
Discography
Studio albums
- 1955Rendez-vous dansant à Copacabana
- 1959Piano Español
- 1962Bossa Nova: New Brazilian Jazz
- 1962Lalo = Brilliance (The Piano Of Lalo Schifrin)
- 1963Samba Para Dos
- 1964New Fantasy
- 1965Gone With the Wave (soundtrack)
- 1965The Cincinnati Kid (soundtrack)
- 1967Cool Hand Luke (Original Soundtrack Recording) (soundtrack)
- 1967Murderer's Row (soundtrack)
- 1967Music From Mission: Impossible (soundtrack)
- 1968Bullitt (soundtrack)
- 1968The Fox (soundtrack)
- 1968The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (soundtrack)
- 1968There’s a Whole Lalo Schifrin Goin’ On
- 1969"Che!" (soundtrack)
- 1969Mannix (Themes From the Original Score of the Paramount Television Show) (soundtrack)
- 1969More Mission: Impossible (soundtrack)
- 1970Kelly’s Heroes (soundtrack)
- 1971Rock Requiem
- 1973Enter the Dragon (soundtrack)
- 1973The Dissection and Reconstruction of Music From the Past
- 1976Black Widow
- 1977Rollercoaster (soundtrack)
- 1977Towering Toccata
- 1977Voyage of the Damned (soundtrack)
- 1978Gypsies
- 1978Nunzio (soundtrack)
- 1979Boulevard Nights (soundtrack)
- 1979No One Home
- 1979The Amityville Horror (soundtrack)
- 1980Jackie Chan in Battle Creek Brawl (soundtrack)
- 1980Offside 7 (soundtrack)
- 1981La Pelle (Colonna Sonora Originale Del Film) (soundtrack)
- 1981The Competition (soundtrack)
- 1982Ins and Outs
- 1982The Sting II (soundtrack)
- 1983The Osterman Weekend (soundtrack)
- 1985A.D. — Anno Domini (soundtrack)
- 1987The Four Musketeers (soundtrack)
- 1987The Fourth Protocol (soundtrack)
- 1988Berlin Blues (soundtrack)
- 1988Cantos Aztecas
- 1990The San Diego Symphony: Alfred Hitchcock, Master of Mayhem (soundtrack)
- 1990Those Fabulous Hollywood Marches
- 1993Don Quixote (soundtrack)
- 1993Jazz Meets the Symphony
- 1994More Jazz Meets the Symphony
- 1996Firebird: Jazz Meets the Symphony #3
- 1997The Music From U.N.C.L.E. (The Original Soundtrack Affair) (soundtrack)
- 1998Lili'uokalani Symphony
- 1998Metamorphosis: Jazz Meets the Symphony #4
- 1998Rush Hour (soundtrack)
- 1998Tango: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (soundtrack)
- 1999Jazz Goes to Hollywood
- 1999Latin Jazz Suite
- 1999Mannix (Themes From the Original Score of the Paramount Television Show) (soundtrack)
- 1999The Eagle Has Landed (Original Film Score) (soundtrack)
- 2000Bossa Nova: New Brazilian Jazz
- 2000Composer of Black Orpheus Plays and Sings Bossa Nova
- 2000Esperanto
- 2000Kelly's Heroes & The Cincinnati Kid (soundtrack)
- 2000The Fox (soundtrack)
- 2001Insensatez
- 2001Intersections: Jazz Meets the Symphony #5
- 2001Rush Hour 2 (soundtrack)
- 2002Piano, Strings and Bossa Nova
- 2002Return of the Marquis de Sade
- 2003Brubaker (soundtrack)
- 2003Symphonic Impressions of Oman
- 2003The Hellstrom Chronicle (soundtrack)
- 2003THX 1138 (soundtrack)
- 2004Dirty Harry (soundtrack)
- 2004Les Félins (soundtrack)
- 2004Tin Tin Deo
- 2005Caveman (soundtrack)
- 2005Kaleidoscope: Jazz Meets the Symphony #6
- 2005Magnum Force (soundtrack)
- 2005Planet of the Apes (soundtrack)
- 2006Abominable (soundtrack)
- 2006Shifrin Plays Schifrin
- 2006The Liquidator (soundtrack)
- 2007Lalo Schifrin & Friends
- 2007Rush Hour 3 (soundtrack)
- 2007The Wrath of God (soundtrack)
- 2008Spooks (soundtrack)
- 2008Sudden Impact (soundtrack)
- 2008Way... Way Out / Braddock (soundtrack)
- 2009Return From the River Kwai (soundtrack)
- 2009Sky Riders (soundtrack)
- 2009The Dead Pool (soundtrack)
- 2010Continuum Journeys Voyage (soundtrack)
- 2010The Mean Season (soundtrack)
- 2011Harry in Your Pocket (soundtrack)
- 2011Invocations: Jazz Meets the Symphony #7
- 2011Pretty Maids All in a Row (soundtrack)
- 2011Telefon / Hide in Plain Sight (soundtrack)
- 2011What’s New Pussycat? / Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You (soundtrack)
- 2012Coogan's Bluff (soundtrack)
- 2013FX2 (soundtrack)
- 2013Joe Kidd (soundtrack)
- 2014Golden Needles (soundtrack)
- 2015Man on a Swing / The President's Analyst (soundtrack)
- 2015Man on a Swing / The President's Analyst (soundtrack)
- 2015Serial (soundtrack)
- 2015The Amityville Horror (soundtrack)
- 2017Piano Works
- 2018Airport '77 / The Concorde... Airport '79 (soundtrack)
- 2019Return from Witch Mountain (soundtrack)
- 2025The Mask of Sheba (soundtrack)
- ?Day of the Animals (soundtrack)
Other work
- 1966Mission: Impossible (tv)
- 1967Cool Hand Luke
In School of Rock
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Mentioned in other articles
- Pop jazz, lounge and crime TV (Mancini school) Genre
The Argentine jazz pianist Lalo Schifrin wrote a theme in 5/4 time for Mission: Impossible (1966).
- Classic television music Genre
For Mission: Impossible (1966), Lalo Schifrin wrote a theme in 5/4 time.