Michel Legrand

• 180 GRAM COLORED VIRGIN VINYL

• LIMITED EDITION

• INCLUDES 1 BONUS TRACK

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:

• Michel Legrand , arranger & conductor on all tracks, plus:

• [A1-A4]: Miles Davis (tp), Herbie Mann (fl), Jerome Richardson (cl, bar –out on A4), Phil Woods (as –out on A4), John Coltrane (ts –out on A4), Betty Glamann (harp), Eddie Costa (vib), Bill Evans (p), Barry Galbraith (g), Paul Chambers (b), Kenny Dennis (d).
• New York, June 25, 1958.

• [A5] & [B1-B3]: Frank Rehak, Billy Byers, Jimmy Cleveland, Eddie Bert (tb), Herbie Mann (fl), Ben Webster (ts), Hank Jones (p), Major Holley (tu), George Duvivier (b), Don Lamond (d).
• New York, June 27, 1958.

• [B4-B6]: Art Farmer, Ernie Royal, Donald Byrd, Joe Wilder (tp), Frank Rehak, Jimmy Cleveland (tb), Jimmy Buffington (fhr), Gene Quill, Phil Woods (as), Seldon Powell (ts), Teo Macero (bar), Don Elliott (vib), Nat Pierce (p), Milt Hinton (b), Osie Johnson (d).
• New York, June 30, 1958.

• (*) Bonus track:
• Miles Davis (tp), Sonny Rollins, Charlie Parker (ts), Walter Bishop, Jr. (p), Percy Heath (b), Philly Joe Jones (d).
• New York, January 30, 1953.

TRACKS:

• SIDE A:
• 01. WILD MAN BLUES
• 02. ‘ROUND MIDNIGHT
• 03. THE JITTERBUG WALTZ
• 04. DJANGO
• 05. NUAGES
• 06. ‘ROUND MIDNIGHT (*)

• SIDE B:
• 01. ROSETTA
• 02 DON’T GET AROUND MUCH ANYMORE
• 03. BLUE AND SENTIMENTAL
• 04. STOMPIN’ AT THE SAVOY
• 05. A NIGHT IN TUNISIAv
• 06. IN A MIST