More Mission: Impossible

1969 soundtrack album by Lalo Schifrin

More Mission: Impossible

Soundtrack album by

Lalo Schifrin

Released| 1969
Recorded| October 23 and 26, 1968
Studio| Los Angeles
Genre| Jazz
Length| 28:48
Label| Paramount – PAS 5002
Producer| Tom Mack
Lalo Schifrin chronology
| There's a Whole Lalo Schifrin Goin' On
(1968)  | More Mission: Impossible
(1969)  | Mannix
(1968)

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More Mission Impossible is an album featuring music composed and conducted by Lalo Schifrin recorded in 1968 and released on the Paramount label.[1] As with Music from Mission: Impossible (1967) the music on this album is rerecorded and extended scores that were originally commissioned for the TV series Mission: Impossible.

The liner notes were written by JazzTimes music critic Harvey Siders. He said that "each track could be lifted right out of context and stand alone as a compact treatise on rock-tinged, big-band jazz." He described "Mission Blues" as blues with a boogie woogie rhythm and funk elements, and noticed that "Self-Destruct" contained a "rarity: a jazz chimes solo" from the percussion department. He said that the "Danube Incident" was peacefully atmospheric, featuring the exotic Eastern European sound of the cymbalom.[2]

In 1994, Portishead sampled the track "Danube Incident" for their song "Sour Times", slowing the original tune down in tempo which also lowered its pitch.[3] "Sour Times" became Portishead's most successful single.

## Track listing[edit]

All compositions by Lalo Schifrin except as indicated

1. "Mission Blues" – 2:47
2. "Self-Destruct" – 2:37
3. "Affair in Madrid" – 2:31
4. "Midnight Courier" – 3:25
5. "The Chelsea Memorandum" (Shorty Rogers) – 2:59
6. "More Mission" – 2:45
7. "Intrigue" – 2:30
8. "Danube Incident" – 1:52
9. "Foul Play" (Richard Hazard) – 2:29
10. "The Getaway" – 2:22
11. "Mission: Impossible" – 2:31

* Recorded in Los Angeles, California on October 23 and 26, 1968

## Personnel[edit]

* Lalo Schifrin – arranger, composer, conductor
* Conte Candoli, Graham Young, John Audino, Bobby Bryant – trumpet
* Lloyd Ulyate, Dick Nash, Dick Noel, Milt Bernhart, George Roberts – trombone
* Bud Shank, Ronny Lang, Plas Johnson, John Lowe, Gene Cipriano – reeds
* Mike Melvoin – piano, electric piano, organ
* Tommy Tedesco, Howard Roberts – guitar
* Ray Brown – bass
* Carol Kaye – electric bass
* Larry Bunker, Ken Watson, Emil Richards, Francisco Aguabella – percussion
* Robert Helfer – orchestra manager
* Dick Hazard, Milt Rogers – arranger, composer
* John Neal – engineer
* Apple Graphics – album design
* Christopher Whorf – art direction

## References[edit]

1. ^ Payne, D. Lalo Schifrin discography accessed March 10, 2012
2. ^ Siders, Harvey (1969). More Mission: Impossible (Liner notes). Paramount Records.
3. ^ Weingarten, Christopher R. (21 August 2019). "Portishead's 'Dummy' is 25. The Band Asks That You Play It Loud". The New York Times.