Michel Legrand is best known for his long and fruitful career in movie soundtracks, but as a young man in 1958 he was featured in an arranger's showcase with a collection of jazz masters, including ...
It was the summer of 1958 when Miles Davis arrived at the great New York temple of sound, Columbia Records’s 30th Street Studios. He hadn’t decided whether to take part in recording the first of three ...
3 Video: 42 BALLOONS North American Premiere at Chicago Shakespeare Theater Laury reunited with Michel Legrand at The Dakota Jazz Club in Minneapolis, with four special performances on his 2011/12 U.S ...
When French composer Michel Legrand died Saturday at the age of 86, he was celebrated for many achievements. There were his three Academy Awards, his more than 200 film and TV scores and his romantic ...
Michel Legrand, three-time Oscar winner and composer of such classic film songs as “The Windmills of Your Mind,” “I Will Wait for You,” “You Must Believe in Spring” and “What Are You Doing the Rest of ...
When you see Laury Shelley walk onto the stage at the Jazz Showcase later this month to sing songs, she will in a very real and emotional musical sense be back where she came from. Back where she came ...
Michel Legrand has so many claims to fame: over 200 film scores, a string of hit songs, collaborations with jazz greats like Miles Davis and Bill Evans, albums by the score with most of the great ...
It is difficult to pin the multi-talented Michel Legrand down into one single category. This amazingly versatile French singer, songwriter, composer, arranger, conductor and producer has enjoyed a ...
It was the summer of 1958 when Miles Davis arrived at the great New York temple of sound, Columbia Records’s 30th Street Studios. He hadn’t decided whether to take part in recording the first of three ...
Over a career of more than 60 years, Legrand collaborated onstage, onscreen and in the studio with dozens of celebrated musicians of his era, from Miles Davis to Perry Como, Stéphane Grappelli to Liza ...
Michel Legrand, a French composer with more than 200 screen credits, notably the jazzy movie operas “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg” and “The Young Girls of Rochefort,” and whose tunefully romantic music ...
Michel Legrand was trained as a classical pianist and composer, but he will always be remembered for such pop hits as "The Windmills of Your Mind." Legrand died Saturday at 86. When French composer ...