FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE



LEGENDARY COMPOSER, CONDUCTOR, AND PERFORMER LALO SCHIFRIN CELEBRATES HIS LIFE
WITH AUTOBIOGRAPHY



Mission Impossible: My Life in Music Reflects On Life's Work in Classical, Jazz,
and Film



(August 19, 2008- Los Angeles, CA) - Scarecrow Press will release the
autobiography of six-time Academy Award® nominated composer Lalo Schifrin this
summer. Mission Impossible: My Life in Music, edited by Richard Palmer, is a
journey from Schifrin's formative years in Argentina to the classical and jazz
atmospheres in Paris in the 1950s; from his jazz career with Dizzy Gillespie to
his development as a film composer.



Organized in eight parts, the book reflects on Schifrin's cosmopolitan
experience providing impressions and vignettes of the extraordinary people with
whom he worked. His music bridges three styles-jazz, classical, and film/TV-his
autobiography offers insights on all three genres, as well as politics,
literature, and travel. It includes over 30 photos, appendixes listing
Schifrin's works, a discography, and an audio CD featuring some of Schifrin's
greatest compositions.



As a young man in his native Argentina, Lalo Schifrin received classical
training in music and studied law. He came from a musical family, and his father
was the concertmaster of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Buenos Aires at the
Teatro Colon.



After his studies at the Paris Conservatory, Schifrin returned to Argentina and
formed his own big concert band. Dizzy Gillespie heard Schifrin perform and
asked him to become his pianist, arranger, and composer. In 1958, Schifrin moved
to the United States and began his remarkable career.



Since then Schifrin's career has taken him in many directions. As a jazz
musician he performed and recorded with Dizzy Gillespie, Sarah Vaughan, Ella
Fitzgerald, Stan Getz, Count Basie, Dee Dee Bridgewater, and George Benson. His
classical activities include Zubin Mehta, The Three Tenors, Rostropovich,
Barenboim, and others.

His longtime involvement in both the jazz and symphonic worlds came together in
1993 as pianist and conductor for his on-going series of "Jazz Meets the
Symphony" recordings, with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and jazz stars
like Ray Brown, Grady Tate, Jon Faddis, Paquito D'Rivera and James Morrison.



Schifrin has written over 100 film and television scores including Mission
Impossible, Mannix, Cool Hand Luke, Bullitt, The Cincinnati Kid, Amityville
Horror, four of the Dirty Harry films, and more recently Abominable and the Rush
Hour trilogy. To date, Lalo Schifrin has won four Grammys® (twenty-one
nominations), one Cable ACE Award, and six Academy Award® nominations.




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