Jazz Meets the Symphony: Boxed Set CD – ALEPH 012

An astounding achievement in orchestration, Schifrin’s Jazz Meets the Symphony: Boxed Set is the culmination of his many years of work in blending rich orchestral sounds with the intricate and complex components of jazz. The set contains four discs, a bonus CD interview with the featured artists, and a 56 page booklet containing bios, photographs, and more.
Jazz Meets the Symphony
More Jazz Meets the Symphony
Firebird
Metamorphosis

“I have never understood the building of walls and fences that separate peoples’ ideas and music.”

– Lalo Schifrin

The Tracks’ Listing:

Jazz Meets the Symphony

1. Battle Hymn of the Republic
2. Echoes of Duke Ellington
3. Bach to the Blues
4. Brush Strokes
5. I Can’t Get Started
6. Brazilian Impressions
7. Blues in the Bassment
8. The Fox
9. As Time Goes By
10. Dizzy Gillespie Fireworks

More Jazz Meets the Symphony

1. Sketches of Miles
2. Down Here On the Ground
3. Chano
4. Begin the Beguine
5. Django
6. Old Friends
7. Madrigal
8. Portrait of Louis Armstrong

Firebird

1. Birdland
2. Vignettes of Fats Waller
3. Mission: Impossible
4. Eine Kliene Jazz Musik
5. An American in Paris
6. It’s You or No One
7. El Dorado
8. Charlie Parker: The Firebird

Metamorphosis

1. La Nevada
2. Sanctuary
3. Tosca Variations
4. Miraculous Monk
5. Invisible City
6. Rhapsody for Bix

Conversations with Jazz Stars