New Fantasy [IMPORT]

Lalo Schifrin

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 25, 2000)
• Original Release Date: June 10, 1964
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Universal Japan
• ASIN: B00000K235
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #187,144 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
Worldwide CD debut/ Japanese-only reissue of the Latin jazz great's 1964 LP for the prestigious Verve label. Features the original cover art and all eight of the album's original tracks. 1999 release.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Schifrin Comes Home, October 17, 2000

By	Charles A. Haynes (Chico, CA USA) - See all my reviews

Once again, thanks to the Jazz-loving Japanese, we have our own prodigal son (by way of Argentina) returning to American soil. And, once again, it takes the wisdom of an older culture to preserve the best of the USA, because music industry managers (read: "damagers")seem intent on combining greed and ignorance while refusing to properly showcase the best that America has ever offered the world. Case in point: Lalo Schifrin, perhaps one of the most influential editorial forces in Jazz and soundtrack production in American history. His discography and cinematic credits easily rival anything - and I realize that's a pretty sweeping statement - to come out of Hollywood or the entire legacy of Jazz, except for perhaps Duke Ellington. Lalo's accomplishments and level of creative force still continue to astonish and amaze succeeding generations of music lovers, those who still listen with their ears, and not their eyes. His by-now-forgotten tour-de-force, New Fantasy, recorded back in 1964, like all great music, deserves a re-evaluation with the passage of time, and this LP still stands out as one of Lalo's best-conceived and least-acknowledged works in the genre of experimental Big Band arranging. Lalo uses as his basic material the "classics" of Europe and the Americas, treating the composed music of such luminaries as George Gershwin, Aram Khatchaturian, Duke Ellington, Moises Simon, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Richard Rodgers and Aaron Copland with equal ease and ferocious originality. And all this with some of the best Jazz players of the 1960's, including Clark Terry on trumpet, J. J. Johnson on trombone, Jerome Richardson on flue and sax, with the unusual twist of an entire 4-piece French Horn section, rather than the normal phalanx of alto, tenor and baritone saxophones. The results are by turns, serene, complex, unexpected yet masterfully executed, ranging from the inspired responses of the soloists as much as from the arranging pen of Schifrin himself, who is destined, despite the harsh light of the many trendy 20th Century retrospectives in our early millenium, to become finally celebrated in his chosen homeland, the USA, as the master he truly is. But as one might expect, it would fall to a much older world culture to bring us to our senses, and set us straight on who really deserves the recognition of a CD reissue. Once again, thank you Japan for taking the trouble to give us back our own heritage. Arigato!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars great music, March 14, 2001

By	Rich Onaitis (Cincinnati, Ohio) - See all my reviews

Finally!!! It's been released in CD!! I have waited years for the world to rediscover Lalo Schifrin. I knew when Mission Impossible was made into a movie it was only a matter of time. Together with the Marquis de Sade album, New Fantasy expanded jazz for me in the 1960's and 70's. If you like straight ahead, jazz big band jazz with a unique twist you will enjoy New Fantasy.

5.0 out of 5 stars Right On!, October 31, 2008

By	shebam - See all my reviews

This album is a complete classic and still sends chills up and down my spine, and should for anyone from the NYC area who cherished WNEW's jazz and swing programming. My vinyl versions of this album and his Marquis de Sade album from the same era, with many or most of same players, are precious.