Explorations is an album by Argentine composer, pianist and conductor Lalo Schifrin and American drummer Louis Bellson recorded in 1964 and released on the Roulette label.Lalo Schifrin website accessed March 7, 2012Discogs album entry accessed March 7, 2012 It was the first album composed entirely by Schifrin and features themes that would later be used in the television detective series Mannix.Payne, D. Lalo Schifrin discography accessed March 7, 2012
Track listing All compositions by Lalo Schifrin "Variations" - 3:19 "Primitive" - 5:27 "Explorations" - 5:15 "Cycles" - 2:15 "Ostinato" - 6:24 "Etude for Tympani and Strings" - 5:10 "Toledano" - 4:45 Recorded in Los Angeles on February 10 & 11, 1964
Personnel Lalo Schifrin - arranger, conductor Louis Bellson - drums, tympani, log drum, percussion Artie Kane - keyboards Alton Hendrickson - guitar Keith Mitchell - bass Erno Neufeld, Anatol Kaminsky, David Frisina, Sam Freed, Nathan Kaproff, George Kast, Alex Murray, Marvin Limonick - violin Sanford Schonbach, Virginia Majewski - viola Raphael Kramer, Eleanor Slatkin - cello Dorothy Remsen - harp Bobby Helfer - orchestra manager
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