Lalo: My Life and Music

Description

Mission: Impossible — the man behind the music. Lalo: My Life and Music is the autobiography of Lalo Schifrin: the Argentine pianist who became Hollywood’s most exciting composer — the Mission: Impossible theme, Dirty Harry, Enter the Dragon, and a hundred more scores that defined cool for generations of moviegoers.

Schifrin tells it all: the Buenos Aires childhood, Dizzy Gillespie discovering him in Argentina, the jazz years, the Hollywood conquest. His voice — warm, witty, and musical — makes this one of the great composer memoirs, full of stories about the films and the musicians who made them sing.

For film and jazz lovers: the inside story of the sound of suspense. Schifrin’s music is in your bones; now meet the man who wrote it. A joy from first note to last. Schifrin’s stories span jazz clubs to film sets: the memoir swings like his music. A five-alarm joy from first page to last.

Lalo: My Life and Music

Lalo Guerrero (1916–2005) is an American original — the Tucson-born singer, songwriter, and guitarist celebrated as the father of Chicano music. In this warm, plain-spoken autobiography, written with Sherilyn Meece Mentes, he looks back on a remarkable career that carried the sounds of the barrio from Arizona dance halls to the wider world.

A Life in Song

From his childhood in Tucson, Arizona, through decades of recording, touring, and writing hundreds of songs, Guerrero tells his story with humor and humility. A modest man in awe of his own celebrity, he sings of joys and sorrows, dreams and frustrations — and of the Mexican-American culture he helped define. His music, by turns jubilant and tender, reflects the history of Chicano popular culture itself.

Why Read It

Published by the University of Arizona Press, Lalo: My Life and Music is essential reading for fans of Latin music, American roots music, and honest memoir alike: the firsthand account of a beloved pioneer, told in his own unmistakable voice.

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