''Once a Thief and Other Themes'' is an album of film and television themes by Argentine composer, pianist and conductor

Lalo Schifrin Boris Claudio "Lalo" Schifrin (born June 21, 1932) is an Argentine-American pianist, composer, arranger and conductor. He is best known for his large body of film and TV scores since the 1950s, incorporating jazz and Latin American musical elemen ...

recorded in 1965 and released on the Verve label.Payne, D
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accessed March 14, 2012 The album features rerecorded versions of Schifrin's themes from the motion pictures '' Once a Thief'' and '' Joy House'' and a theme inspired by the television series '' The Man from U.N.C.L.E.''.

Track listing

All compositions by Lalo Schifrin except as noted # "Blues a Go Go" - 2:49 # "Once a Thief" ( Dorcas Cochran, Schifrin) - 2:02 # "Insinuations" - 3:35 # "The Right to Love" ( Gene Lees, Schifrin) - 3:07 # "The Cat" - 2:35 # "The Man from T.H.R.U.S.H." - 2:57 # "Roulette Rhumba" - 2:10 # "The Joint" - 4:23 # "Once a Thief (Instrumental)" - 2:02 # "Return to Trieste" - 4:06 *Recorded at Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on May 21 (tracks 6, 8 & 9) and May 23 (tracks 1-5, 7 & 10), 1965

Personnel

- piano,

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References

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