Various Artists

Take a gander at the track list: from Basie doing the theme from M-Squad and Lalo Schifrin's original Dirty Harry theme to the James Taylor Quartet's acid jazz reading of the Starsky and Hutch theme, the strange, spacy reading of Isaac Hayes' ''Theme from Shaft'' by the Alfred Hauser Orchestra, and Sammy Davis, Jr. wailing on ''Keep Your Eye on the Sparrow'' for the Baretta TV show, this set is all killer, no filler and highly recommended. For the most part, these are indeed jazz versions of these tunes, but there are no extended improvisations or academic strategies employed to cool them off. If anything, the joy most of these performers take in interpreting this material loosens them up considerably.

• 01 Erwin Halletz & His Orchestra - Dragnet
• 02 Jimmy Smith - Mission- Impossible
• 03 Sarah Vaughan - Peter Gunn
• 04 Chaquito & Hit Orchestra - I Spy
• 05 The Button Down Brass - French Connection
• 06 Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra - Caught At Midnight (Jerry Cotton Theme)
• 07 Lalo Schifrin - Dirty Harry
• 08 Roland Shaw & His Orchestra - The James Bond Theme
• 09 Robert Delgado & His Orchestra - Hawaii Five-O
• 10 Alfred Hause & His Orchestra - Theme From Shaft
• 11 Rhythm Heritage - Theme From SWAT
• 12 Quincy Jones - Ironside
• 13 Paul Desmond - Lady In Cement