More Mission: Impossible
Soundtrack album by Lalo Schifrin
Released	1969
Recorded	October 23 and 26, 1968
Studio	Los Angeles
Genre	Jazz
Length	28:48
Label	Paramount – PAS 5002
Producer	Tom Mack
Lalo Schifrin chronology
There's a Whole Lalo Schifrin Goin' On (1968) More Mission: Impossible (1969) Mannix (1968)

More Mission Impossible is an album featuring music composed and conducted by Lalo Schifrin recorded in 1968 and released on the Paramount label.^[1] As with Music from Mission: Impossible (1967) the music on this album is rerecorded and extended scores that were originally commissioned for the TV series Mission: Impossible.

The liner notes were written by JazzTimes music critic Harvey Siders. He said that "each track could be lifted right out of context and stand alone as a compact treatise on rock-tinged, big-band jazz." He described "Mission Blues" as blues with a boogie woogie rhythm and funk elements, and noticed that "Self-Destruct" contained a "rarity: a jazz chimes solo" from the percussion department. He said that the "Danube Incident" was peacefully atmospheric, featuring the exotic Eastern European sound of the cymbalom.^[2]

In 1994, Portishead sampled the track "Danube Incident" for their song "Sour Times", slowing the original tune down in tempo which also lowered its pitch.^[3] "Sour Times" became Portishead's most successful single.

Track listing

All compositions by Lalo Schifrin except as indicated

1. "Mission Blues" – 2:47
2. "Self-Destruct" – 2:37
3. "Affair in Madrid" – 2:31
4. "Midnight Courier" – 3:25
5. "The Chelsea Memorandum" (Shorty Rogers) – 2:59
6. "More Mission" – 2:45
7. "Intrigue" – 2:30
8. "Danube Incident" – 1:52
9. "Foul Play" (Richard Hazard) – 2:29
10. "The Getaway" – 2:22
11. "Mission: Impossible" – 2:31

• Recorded in Los Angeles, California on October 23 and 26, 1968

Personnel

• Lalo Schifrin – arranger, composer, conductor
• Conte Candoli, Graham Young, John Audino, Bobby Bryant – trumpet
• Lloyd Ulyate, Dick Nash, Dick Noel, Milt Bernhart, George Roberts – trombone
• Bud Shank, Ronny Lang, Plas Johnson, John Lowe, Gene Cipriano – reeds
• Mike Melvoin – piano, electric piano, organ
• Tommy Tedesco, Howard Roberts – guitar
• Ray Brown – bass
• Carol Kaye – electric bass
• Larry Bunker, Ken Watson, Emil Richards, Francisco Aguabella – percussion
• Robert Helfer – orchestra manager
• Dick Hazard, Milt Rogers – arranger, composer
• John Neal – engineer
• Apple Graphics – album design
• Christopher Whorf – art direction

References