Lalo Schifrin - Rock Requiem

Another entry on the theme of lithurgical-music-as-pop, to continue New Hope Jazz Mass and Latin Mass.

Review: Out of print and hard to find, this was released at a time when "rock opera" and concept themes were popular (or interesting to consider). Deftly mixing elements of rock, gospel, jazz and secular music, Schifrin employs a choir and LA studio musicians in this unusual and fascinating tribute "for the dead in the Southeast Asia War." Rock Requiem stands strong as a sequel of sorts to Schifrin's cantata, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (1968) and the liturgical Jazz Suite on the Mass Texts (as recorded by Paul Horn in 1964). Worth the attention.
Detailed notes on the performances are here.

Also mentioned in a 1972 Time article Pop Goes the Bible.


Lalo Schifrin - Rock Requiem
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1. The Procession
2. Introit
3. Kyrie Eleison
4. Gradual
5. Tract
6. Offertory Verse
7. Sanctus Benedictus
8. Agnus Dei
9. Final Prayer

I'll throw in another Schifrin album I am currently listening to. They say it's one of his best. The uploads are not mine.
Review: Schifrin produced in 1966 what remains truly one of his greatest musical achievements. Essentially a baroque take on jazz, Schifrin creates his own beautiful variations on the classics here. His inspiration is diverse, even divine - Henry Purcell ("Aria"), Bach ("Bossa Antique"), Francis Hopkinson ("Beneath a Weeping Willow Shade"), Telemann ("Old Laces"), even Ramsey Lewis and the Rolling Stones ("The Wig"). The musicianship is first-rate too; especially Schifrin's graceful and evocative piano and Gene Bertoncini's lovely guitar. Without question, a unique, gorgeous and inspired statement and one of the buried treasures in 1960's jazz.
Detailed notes on the performances are here.


Lalo Schifrin — Marquis de Sade (1966)
Full title: "The Dissection and Reconstruction of Music From the Past as performed by the Inmates of Lalo Schifrin's Demented Ensemble as a Tribute to the Memory of the Marquis De Sade"
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1. Old Laces
2. The Wig
3. The Blues For Johann Sebastian
4. Renaissance
5. Beneath A Weeping Willow Shade
6. Versailles Promenade
7. Troubadour
8. Marquis De Sade
9. Aria
10. Bossa Antique