Explorations (Louis Bellson album)

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Explorations
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Studio album by
Lalo Schifrin and Louis Bellson
Released1964
RecordedFebruary 10–11, 1964
Los Angeles
Genre Jazz
Length32:35
Label Roulette
R-52120
Producer Teddy Reig
Lalo Schifrin chronology
Between Broadway & Hollywood
(1963)		Explorations
(1964)		 New Fantasy
(1964)
Louis Bellson chronology
The Mighty Two
(1963)		Explorations
(1964)		 Are You Ready for This?
(1965)

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. [1] [2] It was the first album composed entirely by Schifrin and features themes that would later be used in the television detective series Mannix . [3]

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

Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ Lalo Schifrin website accessed March 7, 2012
  2. ↑ Discogs album entry accessed March 7, 2012
  3. ↑ Payne, D. Lalo Schifrin discography accessed March 7, 2012
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