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The correct answer is Lalo Schifrin!

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cropped photo by Alexandra Spürk / CC BY-SA 2.5 / via Wikimedia Commons

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…..While the Argentine-born pianist, composer, arranger, and conductor Lalo Schifrin played with countless jazz artists and led more than 50 album sessions since his 1957 debut, he is best known for his more than 40 film and television series soundtrack recordings.  His work resulted in five Grammy Awards, six Academy Award nominations and four Emmy Award nominations.   In 2019, he received an Honorary Oscar “in recognition of his unique musical style, compositional integrity and influential contributions to the art of film scoring.”

…..In 1960, after Dizzy Gillespie disbanded his big band, the trumpeter asked  Schifrin to play piano in his quintet.  Schifrin accepted, moved to New York, and for two years worked as Gillespie’s musical director.

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Click here to read Schifrin’s Wikipedia page

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Listen to the 1961 live recording of Dizzy Gillespie playing “A Night in Tunisia,” with Schifrin (piano); Leo Wright (saxophone); Bob Cunningham (double bass); Chuck Lampkin (drums); and Candido Camero (conga).   [Universal Music Group]

 

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Watch a film of Lalo Schifrin performing the theme to  Mission Impossible

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