Legrand Jazz Édition Limitée Vinyle Jaune

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michel legrand
LEGRAND JAZZ
1958, COLUMBIA
What a long and magnificent story between Michel Legrand and jazz... In 1948, he was struck in the heart by Dizzy Gillespie's concert at the Pleyel hall. And ten years later, he is in New York to conduct the recording of an album with thirty-one jazz musicians including Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Hank Jones, Bill Evans, Paul Chambers, Donald Byrd... The maestro of film music thus assembled a dream cast, on rather vintage tracks by Django Reinhardt, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong... This album does not exactly represent the avant-garde of jazz in 1958. But, both orchestral and cool, greatly enhanced by its soloists and superbly produced, it is enchanting, and is listened to as one passes behind the rainbow. It is also a sesame album, which opens the doors for him to a few more beautiful adventures with jazz in the following decades.