Mannix [Original Soundtrack]

by Lalo Schifrin

Overview

Newly recorded in 1999 at WDR Studios in Cologne, Germany, Mannix gives composer Lalo Schifrin a chance to refine compositions and arrangements that he wrote for the detective series of the same name in 1967. Although not his most famous television work of that period (an honor belonging to Mission: Impossible), Mannix did offer Schifrin a chance to move into more exotic forms of composition. Once one gets past the main title theme, the music quickly takes on an identity of its own, separate from the series. Some of it evokes places such as South America ("Sao Paolo After Dark") and Austria ("The Vienna Incident"), but most of it is in a light '60s pop-jazz vein, which doesn't mean there isn't some virtuoso playing, especially on the part of the saxmen and the trumpets. The players do what they can to make the most pedestrian of this material come alive, although curiously, the most potentially expansive piece here, the extended version of the title work, is also the most predictable. ~ Bruce Eder

Product Details

Release Date:	10/26/1999
Label:	Alberts / Aleph
UPC:	0651702633623

Tracks

1. Mannix
2. Hunt Down
3. The Shadow
4. Sao Paolo After Dark
5. Turn Every Stone
6. Warning: Live Blueberries
7. Beyond the Shadow of Today
8. The Girl Who Came in With the Tide
9. The Edge of Night
10. Curtains for a Murder
11. The End of the Rainbow
12. You Should Have Known
13. End Game
14. The Vienna Incident
15. Fear
16. Mannix
17. Mannix

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Lalo Schifrin   Primary Artist
Juraj Cizmarovic   Violin

Technical Credits

Lalo Schifrin   Composer,Producer
Wolfgang Hirschmann   Audio Production,Producer
Bobby Bee   Mastering
Donna Schifrin   Executive Producer