Mission Impossible

Mission Impossible, my LIFE in MUSIC, by Lalo Schifrin
219 ppgs.
Scarecrow Press, Inc., Publisher

This is the engaging autobiography of the musician, conductor, and composer of more than 60 jazz and classical works and more than 100 film and television scores. Beautifully written by Schifrin and edited by Richard Palmer, this journeys from Schifrin's formative years in Argentina to the classical and jazz atmospheres in Paris in the 1950's; to his jazz career in the United States with Dizzy Gillespie from 1958 to 1963; and to his development as a film and television composer from 1963 to the present.