Michel Legrand
Michel Legrand
Person from France
Genres: hard bop, jazz, third stream, film score, instrumental music, easy listening, variety, french
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About Michel Legrand
Michel Legrand (Michel Jean Legrand, Paris, France, 24 February 1932 – 26 January 2019) was a French composer, arranger, conductor, and pianist. A prolific composer, having written over 200 film and television scores, in addition to many memorable songs, he is best known for his often haunting, jazz-tinged film music. His celebrated scores for the films of French New Wave director Jacques Demy, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) and The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967), earned Legrand his first Academy Award nominations. Legrand won his first Oscar for the song "The Windmills of Your Mind" from The Thomas Crown Affair (1968). Michel Legrand made his fame and fortune from writing for films, but he has done significant work in jazz on an occasional basis. In 1957, he arranged a set of dixieland and swing standards for a French orchestra (recorded on Philips), in 1958 he used three different all-star groups for the classic Legrand Jazz (with such sidemen as Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Phil Woods, Herbie Mann, Bill Evans, Ben Webster, Art Farmer and others), in 1968 he recorded a strictly jazz set with a trio and Legrand has written for albums led by Stan Getz (1971), Sarah Vaughan (1972), and on several occasions, Phil Woods. Several of his songs (such as "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life", "Watch What Happens" and "The Summer Knows") have been recorded many times by jazz musicians.
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Michel Legrand — Top 30 songs of 160
| Artist | Song title | Like / Dislike | |
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| Michel Legrand | Track13 | ||
| Michel Legrand | Satie: 6 Pièces De La Période 1906-1913 - 5. Profondeur - Satie: Piano Works - 1993 | ||
| Michel Legrand | Parapluies De Cherbourg | ||
| Michel Legrand | In a Mist | ||
| Michel Legrand | O mein Papa | ||
| Michel Legrand | The Windmills of your mind | ||
| Michel Legrand | Other Side Of The Wind, The | ||
| Michel Legrand | Theme from Summer of '42 | ||
| Michel Legrand | Best Friend: How Do You Keep the Music Playing | ||
| Michel Legrand | You Must Believe In Spring | ||
| Michel Legrand | Di-Gue-Ding-Ding | ||
| Michel Legrand | O Sole Mio | ||
| Michel Legrand | Communications '72 | ||
| Michel Legrand | Paris in the Spring | ||
| Michel Legrand | Come Ray And Come Charles | ||
| Michel Legrand | Les moulins de mon coeur | ||
| Michel Legrand | Wuthering Heights: Wuthering Heights [3J3] | ||
| Michel Legrand | I Was Born In Love With You (Instrumental) | ||
| Michel Legrand | Le pont transbordeur | ||
| Michel Legrand | Doubting Thomas | ||
| Michel Legrand | The Windmills Of Your Mind w Muzyka Filmowa | ||
| Michel Legrand | How Do You Keep The Music Playing? | ||
| Michel Legrand | Les Parapluies De Cherbourg | ||
| Michel Legrand | Maracaibo | ||
| Michel Legrand | Paraplues de Sherbourg | ||
| Michel Legrand | Le Nantais la nuit | ||
| Michel Legrand | ´Round midnight | ||
| Michel Legrand | Times of Your Life | ||
| Michel Legrand | Le Messager (The Go-Between) | ||
| Michel Legrand | What Is This Thing Called Love |