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Well, picked up my copy of Mission Impossible: My Life In Music from the post office today (am I the first kid on the block to have a copy?). Only dipped into it, as I was out all day playing at a church fete (both with my concert band and my solo act; I purchased a concert band arrangement of Mission last year, so that was played today.
Interesting book, some of which of course was covered by many interviewers over the years (and by me in my interview with Lalo in 1998). Some nice previously unseen photos (at least by me) and the youngest pic of Lalo is at age 24. He's changed a lot but the thing that hasn't changed is, is vibrant, rhythmic music.
The accompanying CD is drawn from his label and I have four of the albums the nine tracks are taken from.
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No, you are not the first kid on the block - I've had it for two weeks.
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No, you are not the first kid on the block - I've had it for two weeks.
Ah but am I the first in the UK?
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I've had mine for three days and I'm half way through it. Haven't played the CD yet, been reading on the "throne".
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I've had mine for three days and I'm half way through it. Haven't played the CD yet, been reading on the "throne".
Please. TMI.
I am awaiting my copy signed by the Maestro, courtesy of DarkDel.
After all, how much can his life change in a month?
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I'm just starting it, but I was glancing through it and I'm not hopeful that it's not going to be riddled with errors when I look at the discography and see The Enforcer credited as a Lalo score, or in his composer credits that he wrote the theme for Dr. Kildare. Sloppy.
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Haven't played the CD yet, been reading on the "throne".
Be sure to withhold that bit of trivia if you ever decide to trade or sell the book.
I'LL say. Wow... wow.
"This volume has a radioactive half-life of 53 years. Suitable for your heirs only..."
Great song idea- "FOR YOUR HEIRS ONLY" 
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I'm just starting it, but I was glancing through it and I'm not hopeful that it's not going to be riddled with errors when I look at the discography and see The Enforcer credited as a Lalo score, or in his composer credits that he wrote the theme for Dr. Kildare. Sloppy.
I guess they don't call the publisher 'Scarecrow Press' for nothing...
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So - what's the final verdict on this book, from anyone who's finished it?
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So - what's the final verdict on this book, from anyone who's finished it?
Dipped into it, had a flick through, now started in earnest. Interesting stuff about his early days - I didn't realise he'd played with John Coltrane!
There's a story about a leader on sax in a band Lalo was in, in France and about the leader's encounter with a blonde woman... who turned out to be completely different (the story will make you go yuck!). He of course mentions the many musicians he has worked with. No mention of his Hollywood composer friends like Jerry Goldsmith.
Although Lalo does mention the political climate when he was younger, in Argentina (blasting Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber for their so-called 'research' for Evita, since he lived through the true events), he doesn't mention the Falklands War and what happened to him during it, as he told me back in our 1998 interview - maybe it is still a hot potato.
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So - what's the final verdict on this book, from anyone who's finished it?
Dipped into it, had a flick through, now started in earnest. Interesting stuff about his early days - I didn't realise he'd played with John Coltrane!
There's a story about a leader on sax in a band Lalo was in, in France and about the leader's encounter with a blonde woman... who turned out to be completely different (the story will make you go yuck!). He of course mentions the many musicians he has worked with. No mention of his Hollywood composer friends like Jerry Goldsmith.
Although Lalo does mention the political climate when he was younger, in Argentina (blasting Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber for their so-called 'research' for Evita, since he lived through the true events), he doesn't mention the Falklands War and what happened to him during it, as he told me back in our 1998 interview - maybe it is still a hot potato.
I thought the little chapter about Chernobyl was, well, SCARY.
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I received the signed copy of this today and I've been thumbing through it. It's a little too late to start a serious read, but it looks good. Discography and erroneous credit mistakes aside, it's a handsome volume. I love the protective sleevecase provided.
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The appendix after page 177 (filmography, classical works, discography) contain many many errors (unbelievable for an AUTOBIOGRAPHY !), here Doug Adams Schifrin discography on the net is lightyears ahead.
I don't think it is a true autobiography. The book was edited by Richard Palmer and the way it is written, I can 'hear' the speech patterns of Lalo, since I first interviewed him in person a decade ago. I think it might be an oral history, which Palmer transcribed - that's the way the copy reads to me. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
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Hi Calvin
I'm not far from you I guess - south east UK! 
I love some of the Aleph CDs with the WDR big band, great sounding, especially the Jazz Goes to Hollywood one - great for a concert recording.
I'm working on an arrangement of Bullitt for two equal saxophones but I may expand this for sax quartet or even my concert band.
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