Gypsies (album) explained

Gypsies
Type:	Album
Artist:	Lalo Schifrin
Cover:	Gypsies (album).jpg
Released:	1978
Recorded:	March 27–31, 1978 Studio City, California
Genre:	Jazz, jazz funk
Length:	40:39
Label:	Tabu JZ 35436
Producer:	Lalo Schifrin
Chronology:	Lalo Schifrin
Prev Title:	Rollercoaster
Prev Year:	1977
Next Title:	Nunzio
Next Year:	1978

Gypsies is an album by Argentine composer, pianist and conductor Lalo Schifrin, recorded in 1978 and released on the Tabu label.^{[1] [2]}

Critical reception

Newsday called the music "glossy stuff that sounds like a soundtrack in search of a film."^[3] The Courier News deemed it "jazz funk fusion."^[4]

Track listing

All compositions by Lalo Schifrin

1. "To Cast a Spell" - 5:40
2. "King of Hearts" - 5:14
3. "Moonlight Gypsies" - 4:57
4. "Fortune Tellers" - 4:40
5. "Gauchos" - 5:34
6. "Pampas" - 5:32
7. "Prophecy of Love" - 3:39
8. "Ring Around the Moon" - 5:23

Personnel

• Lalo Schifrin - piano, keyboards, synthesizer, arranger, conductor
• Oscar Brashear, Bobby Bryant - trumpet
• Charles Loper, Lew McCreary - trombone
• Anthony Ortega, Ernie Watts, Don Menza - woodwinds
• Mike Melvoin - keyboards
• Ian Underwood - synthesizer
• Dean Parks - guitar
• Abraham Laboriel - electric bass
• Jim Keltner - drums
• Emil Richards, Paulinho Da Costa - percussion

Notes and References

1. News: Goebel . Craid W. J. . Record Reviews . The Kitchener-Waterloo Record . 12 Oct 1978 . 15.
2. Payne, D. Lalo Schifrin discography accessed March 16, 2012
3. News: Micklin . Bob . Record Capsules . Newsday . 5 Oct 1978 . 151A.
4. News: Caputo . Sal . The auteur syndrome . Courier News . 25 Nov 1978 . B7.