內容簡介
內容簡介 Recorded in 1962, Lalo Schifrin's Tin Tin Deo collects two sessions new to CD, one a sextet date featuring Schifrin as pianist, Leo Wright on alto and flute and guitarist Jimmy Raney, the other a big band set starring Wright, trumpeter Clark Terry, trombonist Jimmy Cleveland and of course the leader's distinguished orchestrations. The eight sextet tracks divide neatly into four Schifrin originals and a quartet of jazz standards; in the latter category "Kush" and "Desafinado" are outstanding, while Schifrin's own "The Snake's Dance" is witty and hypnotic, with excellent work from Wright. The big band tracks abound in good things, but pride of place must go to Terry, who is equally majestic in solo and his lead section-work. On the title track he manages lovingly to kibitz Dizzy Gillespie while remaining electrifyingly his own man, and he is no less thrilling on the deliciously titled "Mambo Jazz Opus #7". Elsewhere there are sterling contributions from reedmen Seldon Powell and Jerome Richardson, and drummer Rudy Collins, one of Gillespie's most undersung sidemen, offers pulsating and exemplary support throughout. The early 1960s was a defining and notably fertile period in Schifrin's jazz life, and if Tin Tin Deo is not quite in the class of Gillespiana and The New Continent (both written for Gillespie) it is still a most welcome issue that offers a feast of good playing and irresistible swing. --Richard Palmer
