More Mission: Impossible

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More Mission: Impossible
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Soundtrack album by
Released1969
RecordedOctober 23 and 26, 1968
StudioLos Angeles
Genre Jazz
Length28:48
Label Paramount – PAS 5002
Producer Tom Mack
Lalo Schifrin chronology
There's a Whole Lalo Schifrin Goin' On
(1968)
More Mission: Impossible
(1969)
Mannix
(1968)
Mission: Impossible chronology
Music from Mission: Impossible
(1967)
More Mission: Impossible
(1969)
Mission: Impossible: Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture
(1996)

More Mission Impossible is an album featuring music composed and conducted by Lalo Schifrin recorded in 1968 and released on the Paramount label. [1] As with Music from Mission: Impossible (1967) the music on this album is rerecorded and extended scores that were originally commissioned for the TV series Mission: Impossible .

Contents

The liner notes were written by JazzTimes music critic Harvey Siders. He said that "each track could be lifted right out of context and stand alone as a compact treatise on rock-tinged, big-band jazz." He described "Mission Blues" as blues with a boogie woogie rhythm and funk elements, and noticed that "Self-Destruct" contained a "rarity: a jazz chimes solo" from the percussion department. He said that the "Danube Incident" was peacefully atmospheric, featuring the exotic Eastern European sound of the cymbalom. [2]

In 1994, Portishead sampled the track "Danube Incident" for their song "Sour Times", slowing the original tune down in tempo which also lowered its pitch. [3] "Sour Times" became Portishead's most successful single.

Track listing

All compositions by Lalo Schifrin except as indicated

  1. "Mission Blues" – 2:47
  2. "Self-Destruct" – 2:37
  3. "Affair in Madrid" – 2:31
  4. "Midnight Courier" – 3:25
  5. "The Chelsea Memorandum" (Shorty Rogers) – 2:59
  6. "More Mission" – 2:45
  7. "Intrigue" – 2:30
  8. "Danube Incident" – 1:52
  9. "Foul Play" (Richard Hazard) – 2:29
  10. "The Getaway" – 2:22
  11. "Mission: Impossible" – 2:31

Personnel

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References

  1. Payne, D. Lalo Schifrin discography accessed March 10, 2012
  2. Siders, Harvey (1969). More Mission: Impossible (Liner notes). Paramount Records.
  3. Weingarten, Christopher R. (21 August 2019). "Portishead's 'Dummy' is 25. The Band Asks That You Play It Loud". The New York Times.