Michel Legrand
France
Born: 24 February 1932
Years Active: 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 2000
Genres: Jazz, Stage & Screen
Styles: Bop, Hard Bop, Crossover Jazz, Contemporary Jazz, Fusion, Film Music, Soundtracks, Original Score
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Michel Legrand has 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 (197...
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