Explorations (Louis Bellson album) explained

Explorations
Type:	Album
Artist:	Lalo Schifrin and Louis Bellson
Cover:	Explorations (Louis Bellson album).jpg
Released:	1964
Recorded:	February 10–11, 1964 Los Angeles
Genre:	Jazz
Length:	32:35
Label:	Roulette R-52120
Producer:	Teddy Reig
Chronology:	Lalo Schifrin
Prev Title:	Between Broadway & Hollywood
Prev Year:	1963
Next Title:	New Fantasy
Next Year:	1964

Explorations is an album by Argentine composer, pianist and conductor Lalo Schifrin and American drummer Louis Bellson recorded in 1964 and released on the Roulette label.^{[1] [2]} It was the first album composed entirely by Schifrin and features themes that would later be used in the television detective series Mannix.^[3]

Track listing

All compositions by Lalo Schifrin

1. "Variations" - 3:19
2. "Primitive" - 5:27
3. "Explorations" - 5:15
4. "Cycles" - 2:15
5. "Ostinato" - 6:24
6. "Etude for Tympani and Strings" - 5:10
7. "Toledano" - 4:45

• Recorded in Los Angeles on February 10 & 1, 1964

Personnel

• Lalo Schifrin - arranger, conductor
  • Louis Bellson - drums, tympani, log drum, percussion Artie Kane - keyboards
• Alton Hendrickson - guitar
• Keith Mitchell - bass
• Erno Neufeld, Anatol Kaminsky, David Frisina, Sam Freed, Nathan Kaproff, George Kast, Alex Murray, Marvin Limonick - violin
• Sanford Schonbach, Virginia Majewski - viola
• Raphael Kramer, Eleanor Slatkin - cello
• Dorothy Remsen - harp
• Bobby Helfer - orchestra manager

Notes and References

1. http://www.schifrin.com/discography.htm Lalo Schifrin website
2. http://www.discogs.com/Louis-Bellson-Lalo-Schifrin-Explorations/release/2356228 Discogs album entry
3. Payne, D. Lalo Schifrin discography accessed March 7, 2012