Continuing the funk-orchestral movie-theme thread, another colossus of the genre, the Argentina-born American composer and conductor famous for so many outstanding film and TV soundtracks. Boris Claudio "Lalo" Schifrin, born in 1932, began his career in jazz, working with Dizzy Gillespie and others in the 1950s, but it was when he moved the US in the early 1960s that his film score career began to blossom. It’s difficult to pick out just two of his film and TV scores, at their peak in the late 60s and early 70s, including Mission: Impossible. Cool Hand Luke, Enter The Dragon and Clint Eastwood in Coogan's Bluff (1968) and Dirty Harry (1971). But let’s have one of his best and least known, first, the jazz-funk syncopation of the theme from 1968 political thriller starring Steve McQueen, and then an eccentric monkeying excerpt from his music for the 1974 Tv series follow-up to the Planet of the Apes franchise. Both display his ability to fuse classical music and funk, offbeat rhythms and outstanding prominence of windwind and brass sections.
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