| Free Ride | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Dizzy Gillespie and Lalo Schifrin |
| Cover: | Free Ride (album) LP.jpg |
| Released: | 1977 |
| Recorded: | January 31 and February 1 & 2, 1977 |
| Studio: | Wally Heider Recording Studios, Hollywood, California |
| Genre: | Jazz |
| Length: | 43:27 |
| Label: | Pablo 2310-794 |
| Producer: | Lalo Schifrin |
| Chronology: | Dizzy Gillespie |
| Prev Title: | Dizzy's Party |
| Prev Year: | 1976 |
| Next Title: | The Gifted Ones |
| Next Year: | 1977 |
Free Ride is an album by trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie that was composed, arranged and conducted by Lalo Schifrin, recorded in 1977 and released on the Pablo label.[1] The album represents the first collaboration between the two since The New Continent in 1962.
The AllMusic review stated: "The things that make Schifrin an anathema to the diehards -- the huge orchestras, the pop and soul riffs, the general air of over the top theatricality -- are all over 1977's Free Ride, his reunion date with Dizzy Gillespie... it's very much a record of and for its time".[2]
All compositions by Lalo Schifrin