“Black Widow” is an album released by Argentinean composer, pianist and conductor Lalo Schifrin in 1976. Schifrin is heavily associated with great movie and TV soundtracks (and with good reason), but this is not a soundtrack album. Still, it seems that Schifrin’s music is always destined to work as a soundtrack in one way or another. Parts of the album’s title track and his version of the “Jaws” theme by John Williams have been used in Latin American soap operas as background music for dramatic and/or suspense situations. And I remember “Flamingo” having been used as the intro theme for a variety talk show.

Here you can hear the aforementioned tracks from an original 1976 German pressing of the LP. Featuring top-notch musicians like Hubert Laws (flute), Joe Farrell (saxophone / flute), Anthony Jackson (electric bass), Barry Rogers (trombone) and Don Alias (percussion).

(00:00) Video intro

(00:14) 01. Black Widow
(04:30) 02. Flamingo
(08:56) 03. Jaws (Theme from the Universal picture “Jaws”)

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