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Explorations (Louis Bellson album)

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Released
  
1964

Label
  
Roulette R-52120

Release date
  
1964

Genre
  
Jazz

Length
  
32:35

Explorations (1964)
  
New Fantasy (1964)

Producer
  
Teddy Reig

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Recorded
  
February 10-11, 1964 Los Angeles

Explorations (1964)
  
Are You Ready for This? (1965)

Artists
  
Louie Bellson, Lalo Schifrin

Jazz albums
  
The Cat, Music from Mission: Impossible, Jazz Suite on the Mass Texts, More Jazz Meets the Symphony, Between Broadway & Hollyw

Explorations is an album by Argentine composer, pianist and conductor Lalo Schifrin and American drummer Louis Bellson recorded in 1964 and released on the Roulette label. It was the first album composed entirely by Schifrin and features themes that would later be used in the television detective series Mannix.

Contents

Track listing

All compositions by Lalo Schifrin

  1. "Variations" - 3:19
  2. "Primitive" - 5:27
  3. "Explorations" - 5:15
  4. "Cycles" - 2:15
  5. "Ostinato" - 6:24
  6. "Etude for Tympani and Strings" - 5:10
  7. "Toledano" - 4:45
  • Recorded in Los Angeles on February 10 & 1, 1964

    • Personnel

  • Lalo Schifrin - arranger, conductor
  • Louis Bellson - drums, tympani, log drum, percussion
  • Artie Kane - keyboards
  • Alton Hendrickson - guitar
  • Keith Mitchell - bass
  • Erno Neufeld, Anatol Kaminsky, David Frisina, Sam Freed, Nathan Kaproff, George Kast, Alex Murray, Marvin Limonick - violin
  • Sanford Schonbach, Virginia Majewski - viola
  • Raphael Kramer, Eleanor Slatkin - cello
  • Dorothy Remsen - harp
  • Bobby Helfer - orchestra manager

    • References

    Explorations (Louis Bellson album) Wikipedia
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