Mission Impossible – The Television Scores (6CD set)

[JSngry]

https://www.dustygroove.com/item/766288

An amazing package of music – not just the original two albums of Lalo Schifrin music that were issued from the Mission Impossible TV show – but a massive 6CD collection that brings together work from all seven seasons of the program – a huge amount of material that's never been issued to the public at all, by a range of composers we never even knew worked for the show! Over the years, the spirit of Schifrin's original style was greatly expanded – still with groovy cop and crime modes that mature nicely into the 70s, but also with some richer soundtrack elements that really flesh things out – and which take on special character from show to show, depending on the composers! In addition to material by Schifrin, the set also features passages from jazzy talents who include Jerry Fielding, Don Ellis, Benny Golson, and Duane Tatro – as well as contributions from other soundtrack legends like Gerald Fried, Walter Scharf, Jack Urbont, Robert Drasnin, and Richard Hazard – and the whole thing fetaures six very overstuffed CDs – each almost to the brim with music – in a box with an additional booklet of notes!

Ok, I'm not $99 worth of intrigued, but having within the last year finished Netflixing the entire series, I must admit that if I had unlimited room (physical and metaphysica0) for unlimited indulgence, this would be a no-brainer. There's some very interesting passages on those shows, cues and sequences alike, and maybe this set includes studio logs or unuion sheets or some other way to identify who certain players were, like the bass player who did that really "modern" (as in post-bebop tone and phrasing) cue that got used any number of times. And the Don Ellis score, hmmm...attention should be paid.

[Rooster_Ties]

Very curious.  I'd probably bite for $40, but not $100.

[Daniel A]

The box looks interesting, and I might go for it. Many good scores on that show.

I would also like to mention this book:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Complete-Mission-Impossible-Dossier/dp/0380758776

450 very enjoing and well-researched pages with everything there's to know about how the show came into production as well as plot summaries, comments (sometimes about the scores) and anectotes from the production of each and every show from the seven seasons. 

[Teasing the Korean]

A lot of the sentiments expressed here are the very ones that keep me from buying Mosaic sets, although the packaging and visual aesthetics employed by Mosaic are not in the same league as the film score specialty labels.  

Back to "Mission: Impossible," Santa Claus is supposed to bring this to me if I am a good boy between now and December 25.  I will get back to you then.

In the meantime, from various things I've inferred or read outright, I think we will be seeing a lot of box sets in the coming years covering TV shows with amazing or at least worthwhile music.  There was a 14-disc "Star Trek" set and a three-disc "Outer Limits" set a few years back, and there will be a 12-disc "Lost in Space" in October.  Supposedly, one of the specialty labels is working out the rights issues for a complete "Twilight Zone" set.  The audience for this music isn't getting any younger, so now is the time.  

I'm waiting for sets covering "Night Gallery," Dominic Frontiere's "The Invaders," and the 70s CBS output of Billy Goldenberg, a great composer underrepresented on LP and CD. 

[7/4]

Sounds interesting, same for the Twilight Zone set.