Michel Legrand

Fils de compositeur, le petit Michel est presque né avec les touches de piano collées à ses doigts. Arrangeur pour les bonnes œuvres de son paternel, Michel Legrand connaîtra son envolée dans les années 60 et 70 en composant les musiques des films des cinéastes de la Nouvelle Vague, dont les figures emblématiques que sont Jean-Luc Godard et Agnès Varda.

Trail of Dreams: A Canadian Suite is a 2000 studio album by Oscar Peterson. The album is a suite dedicated to Peterson's native Canada, arranged by Michel Legrand.

Michel Legrand is a French musical composer, arranger, conductor, and jazz pianist. He is best known for his often haunting, jazz-tinged film music. This is an unusual album for Michel Legrand – a suite of tracks based around 20th Century standards – starting with older evergreens, and moving into some very hip tunes from the 60s! The orchestrations are amazing – with tones, colors, and rhythmic approaches that surpass conventional expectations for many of the tunes – and which are handled in a mixture of lushness and loneliness that recalls Legrand’s strongest soundtrack work of the time.

Michel Legrand, who has been loved around the world since his death in 2019, celebrates the 90th anniversary of his birth on February 25, 2022. Musician of many classic films such as "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg," "The Girls of Rochefort," and "The Skin of the Donkey," Legrand was a music legend who broke down the boundaries between jazz, symphonic music, musical comedy, and popular music, and a three-time Academy Award winner who, over the decades He has left behind many works with themes that remain in people's memories.

In 1968, Michel Legrand was already a renowned composer. Four years earlier, his composition for the "Umbrellas of Cherbourg" brought him fame, while the film left Cannes with a Golden Palm and even an Oscar nomination. This success therefore made him settle in Los Angeles where he rubs shoulders with Quincy Jones or Henry Mancini ("The pink Panther", "Diamonds on Sofa").

Decca Records France presents this wonderful high-resolution digital transfer of Michel Legrand's 1964 album, Chante et s'accompagne. French musical composer, arranger, conductor, and jazz pianist Michel Legrand was a prolific composer, having written over 200 film and television scores, in addition to many songs.

Decca Records France presents this wonderful high-resolution digital transfer of Michel Legrand's 1965 album, Sérénades du XXè siècle. French musical composer, arranger, conductor, and jazz pianist Michel Legrand was a prolific composer, having written over 200 film and television scores, in addition to many songs.

Michel Jean Legrand (* 24. Februar 1932 in Paris; † 26. Januar 2019 in Neuilly-sur-Seine) war ein französischer mehrfach mit dem Oscar und Grammy ausgezeichneter Komponist für Filmmusik, Pianist, Sänger und Arrangeur.

Decca Records France presents this wonderful high-resolution digital transfer of Michel Legrand's tribute album, Cole Porter.