Track Listing 1. Sketches of Miles: All Blues / So What / Miles / Aranjuez / Green Dolphin Street / Oleo / Four / Move 2. Down Here on the Ground 3. Chano 4. Begin the Beguine 5. Django 6. Old Friends 7. Madrigal 8. Portrait of Louis Armstrong: Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen / When It's Sleepytime Down South / Someday / After You've Gone / St. Louis Blues / Some Of These Days / Struttin' With Some Barbeque / I Can't Give You Anything But Love
| Details | | Producer: | Lalo Schifrin | | Distributor: | WEA (Distributor) | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes Personnel: Lalo Schifrin (piano, conductor); Paquito D'Rivera (saxophone, clarinet); Jon Faddis (trumpet); James Morrison (trumpet, flugelhorn, trombone); Ray Brown (bass); Grady Tate (drums); The London Philharmonic. Recorded at CTS Studios, London, England in December 1993. Includes liner notes by Lalo Schifrin.
Editorial Reviews 3 Stars - Good - ...Schifrin...fulfills long-time dream by playing jazz music with the London Philharmonic... Q (12/01/1994)
...Schifrin again strikes an engaging balance between out-and-out mainstream jazz and attractive classically-nuanced packagings....in all, an engaging and musically substantive jazz-pops stroll with wide appeal... JazzTimes (11/01/1994)
3 Stars - Good - ...MORE JAZZ MEETS THE SYMPHONY centers on Lalo Schifrin's extended suites of tunes associated with Miles Davis and Louis Armstrong....Much of the project's jazz credibility comes from world-class soloists....Schifrin demonstrates a strong facility for blues and bebop... Down Beat (04/01/1995)
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