Michel Legrand

• 100% Analog 180g Vinyl LP!

• Plated and pressed at RTI

• Gatefold jacket housed

• protective plastic sleeve

In 1958, a young, successful French composer-arranger with a major infatuation on American jazz, worked his way to New York and convinced the very best players of the time to record an album of largely jazz standards. Michel Legrand would go on to win numerous prizes and accolades (3 Oscars, 5 Grammies, 2 Palmes D'or, etc.), but little of what followed matched the sheer brilliance of Legrand Jazz.

Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Ben Webster, Phil Woods and practically every other session man in town signed up for sessions with Legrand to record his idiosyncratic arrangements of standards (Django, Don't Get Around Much Anymore, Night in Tunisia, etc.). Instead of regurgitating then current bop styles, he reinvented the very nature of orchestral jazz band repertoire to make a unique and forward-looking statement on the genre.

PERSONNEL & DATES:

• ON TRACKS A1, A6, B1, B3
• Recorded June 25, 1958

• Paul Chambers - (bass)
• John Coltrane - (tenor sax)
• Eddie Costa - (vibes)
• Miles Davis - (trumpet)
• Kenny Dennis - (drums)
• Bill Evans - (piano)
• Barry Galbraith - (guitar)
• Betty Glamann - (harp)
• Herbie Mann - (flute)
• Jerome Richardson - (baritone sax, bass clarinet)
• Phil Woods - (alto sax)

• ON TRACKS A2, A4, B2, B4
• Recorded June 27, 1958

• Eddie Bert - (trombone)
• Billy Byers - (trombone)
• Jimmy Cleveland - (trombone)
• George Duvivier - (bass)
• Major Holly - (bass, tuba)
• Hank Jones - (piano)
• Don Lamond - (drums)
• Herbie Mann - (flute)
• Frank Rehak - (trombone)
• Ben Webster - (tenor sax)

• ON TRACKS A3, A5, B5
• Recorded June 30, 1958

• James Buffington - (french horns)
• Donald Byrd - (trumpet)
• Jimmy Cleveland - (trombone)
• Don Elliot - (vibes)
• Art Farmer - (trumpet)
• Milt Hinton - (bass)
• Osie Johnson - (drums)
• Teo Macero - (baritone sax)
• Nat Pierce - (piano)
• Seldon Powell - (tenor sax)
• Gene Quill - (alto sax)
• Frank Rehak - (trombone)
• Ernie Royal - (trumpet)
• Joe Wilder - (trumpet)
• Phil Woods - (alto sax)

TRACKS:

• SIDE A
• A1. The Jitterbug Waltz
• A2. Nuages
• A3. Night In Tunisia
• A4. Blue And Sentimental
• A5. Stompin' At The Savoy
• A6. Django

• SIDE B
• B1. Wild Man Blues
• B2. Rosetta
• B3. 'Round Midnight
• B4. Don't Get Around Much Anymore
• B5. In A Mist