OZ Reissue World Record Club LP released in the early 1970’s. Cat: R02417. Actually the 1966 album titled “The dissection and reconstruction of music from the past as performed by the inmates of Lalo Schifrin’s demented ensemble as a tribute to the memory of the Marquis De Sade”.
Come again? This crackpot title probably the longest ever concocted for a jazz album actually is a front for a not-so-dangerous, hard-swinging album in which Schifrin invents or borrows 18th-century classical themes and sets them into big band or small-combo contexts. Such is Schifrin's chameleonic mastery that his own inventions are a match for the themes of the period, and he is tasteful enough not to overload the window dressing and keep the rhythm section loosely swinging nearly all the time. Once, Lalo tries something wacky; on "Beneath a Weeping Window Shade," he has singer Rose Marie Jun intoning a madrigal-like Francis Hopkinson song against some avant-garde multiphonic flute from Jerome Richardson, ministrations from a string quintet, and Schifrin's own comments on harpsichord. There is also a stimulating pastiche "Aria" that sounds like Schifrin arguing with Heitor Villa-Lobos and Henry Purcell in 9/8 time. With the cream of New York's jazz session men of the '60s on board including the inimitable Grady Tate on drums, Richardson on flute and tenor, Gene Bertoncini on guitar, and J.J. Johnson and Kai Winding on trombones and Creed Taylor's production dictating the distinctive timbres, jazz buffs will have a fine time with this collision of the centuries, which leans heavily to the jazz side.
Tracks : Old laces/ The wig/ The blues for Johann Sebastian/ Renaissance/ Beneath a weeping willow shade/ Versailles promenade/ Troubadour/ Marquis De sade/ Aria/ Bossa antique.
There are a few light spindle marks on labels. Record has some light scuff marks and is in Excellent condition. Cover has some ring wear, light marks, some small pen marks on back and some small surface tears around edges and is in VG+ condition.
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