Michel Legrand

• INCLUDES 1 BONUS album:

Michel Legrand Big Band Plays Richard Rodgers

• 20-PAGE BOOKLET

CONTAINS NEW SPECIALLY PREPARED LINER NOTES BY PENGUIN GUIDE TO JAZZ’s WRITER BRIAN MORTON AND BY PARIS' PRESTIGIOUS JAZZ MAGAZINE

“This isn’t modern jazz, or swing, or bop, or New Thing; this is Legrand jazz, its personality as clearly stamped as if he were the main solo voice. Indeed, one realises from listening to these tracks again that for the Frenchman, the orchestra was his instrument.” - PENGUIN GUIDE TO JAZZ

“A flamboyant 33-rpm full of invention. The most beautiful standards, from John Lewis’ ‘Django’ and Django Reinhardt’s ‘Nuages,’ to Bix Beiderbecke’s ‘In a Mist’ and Fats Waller‘s ‘The Jitterbug Waltz,” were all delightfully reinvented by these incredible musicians.”- JAZZ MAGAZINE

PERSONNEL:

• Arranged & conducted by Michel Legrand
• Featuring:
• Miles Davis - trumpet
• John Coltrane; Ben Webster -tenor sax
• Phil Woods - alto sax
• Bill Evans - piano
• Paul Chambers - bass
• Among others.

New York, June 1958.

TRACKS:

• 01 WILD MAN BLUES
• 02 ‘ROUND MIDNIGHT
• 03 THE JITTERBUG WALTZ
• 04 DJANGO
• 05 NUAGES
• 06 ROSETTA
• 07 DON’T GET AROUND MUCH ANYMORE
• 08 BLUE AND SENTIMENTAL
• 09 STOMPIN’ AT THE SAVOY
• 10 A NIGHT IN TUNISIA
• 11 IN A MIST
• 12 FALLING IN LOVE WITH LOVE (*)
• 13 PEOPLE WILL SAY WE’RE IN LOVE (*)
• 14 BALI HA’I (*)
• 15 HAVE YOU MET MISS JONES? (*)
• 16 IT MIGHT AS WELL BE SPRING (*)
• 17 THIS CAN’T BE LOVE (*)
• 18 SOME ENCHANTED EVENING (*)
• 19 THERE’S A SMALL HOTEL (*)
• 20 GETTING TO KNOW YOU (*)
• 21 MY FUNNY VALENTINE (*)
• 22 THE LADY IS A TRAMP (*)

• TOTAL TIME: 76:06 min.

• (*) BONUS ALBUM [12-22]