Topic: Michel Legrand
Back by popular demand is the Winchester Unitarian Society's jazz quintet, performing a spectrum of music by Duke Ellington, Horace Silver, Miles...
Michel Jean Legrand (born February 24, 1932, in B?con-les-Bruy?res in the Paris suburbs) is a French -Armenian musical composer, arranger, conductor, and pianist. While on a visit to the U.S. in 1958, Legrand collaborated with such musicians as Miles ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - It could be a scene from a film noir: "ROUND, LIKE A CIRCLE IN A SPIRAL""I hate to have the same lunch, or eat the same thing every day," Legrand said in a recent interview with Reuters. "That ...
Jacques Demy's 1967 companion piece to his highly popular The Umbrellas of Cherbourg is as exuberant as its predecessor, which seemed at the time like a French version of the MGM musicals of the Fifties. Here we get the young Catherine ...
Recession lore suggests that when times get hard, people party harder. This, furthermore, is the re arranged Maria, a working title open to several interpretations. Sondheim - "my reason for singing" - is her muse but those who cringe at his cloying self-pity (In ...
This engaging Brit reveres the Great American Songbook but refuses to sing it in a New York accent. He also loves Paris, where he first polished his skills as a jazz pianist.. With guitarist Colin Oxley and bassist Alec Dankworth, he treated ...
