TRACKLISTING:
A1. The Jitterbug Waltz
A2. Stompin' At The Savoy
A3. Round Midnight
A4. Django
A5. Night In Tunisia
B1. In A Mist
B2. Blues And Sentimental
B3. Don’t Get Around Much Anymore
B4. Wild Man Blues
B5. Nuages
B6. Rosetta
C1. Autumn Leaves
C2. A Paris
C3. What Is This Thing Called Love
C4. Love For Sale
C5. Night And Day
C6. I've Got You Under My Skin
C7. Siboney
D1. Sous Les Ponts De Paris
D2. Paris In The Spring
D3. April In Paris
D4. Sous Le Ciel De Paris
D5. Paris Canaille
D6. Moulin Rouge
D7. La Vie En Rose
OVERVIEW:
Michel Legrand was one-of the most gifted musicians of his generation. Born in a musical family, he studied at the Conservatoire in Paris where his precocious talents revealed themselves. Everyone noticed his entry into the jazz world in 1954 with an album of French popular songs for which he wrote jazzy arrangements. That first album’s success gave Legrand the right to make an album of his own with Columbia (Philips making a deal with Columbia US). This new album, entitled 'Legrand Jazz', was a sequel featuring legrandissime arrangements of American jazz standards. You could already, and even with tunes heard a thousand times, hear that distinctive Legrand style and the phrases, themes and leitmotifs that later appeared in 'Umbrellas of Cherbourg' or 'The Young Girls of Rochefort'. These album’s four sides feature all the ingredients composing Michel Legrand style that still “fills the world with envy.”
