LE MONDE INSTRUMENTAL MICHEL LEGRAND

ENGLISH SUMMARY

Michel Legrand practised his art as a musician and composer over seven decades, from the Fifties until the years beginning in 2010. He was particularly well-known as a composer of music for films, and over his long career he was associated with numerous great musicians in many different genres.

He was born in Paris in 1932. Both his parents were musicians, and he discovered music at an early age before he went to work in Ray Ventura’s music-publishing company. During the Second World War, despite the Occupation, he studied piano from 1942 to 1949 and turned to jazz. He wrote his first arrangements for his uncle, and in 1948 he first heard Charlie Parker play at a concert. And then came Stan Kenton, Oscar Peterson, Ella Fitzgerald and others… He would write arrangements notably for Dizzy Gillespie, but he also began working with some of the great names in French popular music, among them Henri Salvador, Catherine Sauvage, Jacques Brel and Maurice Chevalier.

He was only 22 years old when in 1954, his album “I Love Paris” became an international best-seller, racking up sales of 8 million copies that made Michel Legrand a great name in jazz, not only across Europe but also in The United States. A few years later, it was in America that he recorded the album Legrand jazz, alongside the likes of Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Bill Evans.

There was a revolution in the French film world in the Sixties, and Michel Legrand found himself riding this new wave that swept through cinemas. He had already written music for films but now he turned his attentions entirely to original soundtracks. He made numerous films in association with the directors Agnes Varda, Jean-Luc Godard and Jacques Demy, notably composing the score for the film-musical The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg. But France couldn’t hold him and in 1966 he settled in Los Angeles to try his luck in American film studios where, with the help of Quincy Jones and Henry Mancini, Legrand began working on his first movies for Hollywood.

Only two years later he found stardom: in 1968 the film The Thomas Crown Affair received the Oscar for the Best Original Song. And then in 1970 Michel Legrand received yet another Academy Award, this time recognising his original soundtrack for the film Summer of ’42.

Before he passed away in the year 2019, Michel Legrand’s filmography numbered over 200 compositions featured in French and American productions.

Jules Frémeaux

English Adaptation: Martin Davies

© Frémeaux & Associés 2020

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Big Mike et sa super-formation à cordes - Surprise-Partie n°1 - 1953

 1 - Viens (Gilbert Bécaud / Charles Aznavour)

 2 - Vous, vous, vous (Lotar Olias)

 3 - La complainte des infidèles (Georges Van Paris / Carlo Rim)

33 tours Philips P 10.150 L

Big Mike et sa super-formation - Surprise-Partie n°2 - 1953

 4 - Tango des jours heureux (Jacques Plante / Michael Harden)

 5 - Mé qué, mé qué (Charles Aznavour / Gilbert Bécaud)

33 tours Philips P 10.151 L (1953)

Big Mike et sa super-formation - Surprise-Partie n°6 - 1955

 6- Anne-Lise (Hans-Arno Simon)

33 tours Philips P 10.158 L

Big Mike et sa grande formation - I Love Paris - 1955

 7 - I love Paris (Cole Porter)

 8 - Mademoiselle de Paris (Paul Durand)

 9 - Paris (André Bernheim)

10 - Les feuilles mortes (Joseph Kosma)

11 - Sous les ponts de Paris (Vincent Scotto)

12 - La seine (Guy Lafarge)

13 - Paris in the spring (Mark Gordon)

14 - Paris canaille (Léo Ferré)

15 - April in Paris (Vernon Duke)

16 - Á Paris (Francis Lemarque)

17 - La vie en rose (Louigy)

18 - Sous le ciel de Paris (Hubert Giraud)

19 - Paris, je t’aime (Victor Schertzinger)

20 - Moulin Rouge (Georges Auric)

21 - The last time I saw Paris (Jérôme Kern)

22 - I love Paris (final) (Cole Porter)

33 tours 30cm Philips - B 07.033 L

Big Mike et sa grande formation - Luna rossa - 1955

23 - Vola, colomba (Carlo Concina) / Merci pour tes fleurs (Saverio Seracini / Hubert Ithier) / Funicula funicula (Luigi Denza / Armand Silvestre)

24 - Comme on est bien dans tes bras (Vittorio Mascheroni / Jean Larue) / Luna rosa (Blushing moon) (Antonio Vian / Fernand Bonnifay) / Vieni, vieni (Vincent Scotto)

45 tours EP Philips 432.020 NE

CD2

Michel Legrand et sa grande formation : Musiques de films - 1956

 1 - Sotto il baobab (Pour qu’une fleur) (Angelo Francesco Lavagnino) du film Continent perdu

 2 - Oh bankan (Mon amour) (Angelo Francesco Lavagnino) du film Continent perdu

 3 - Complainte de la butte (Georges Van Paris / Jean Renoir) du film French Can-Can

 4 - Le grisbi (Jean Wiener) du film Touchez pas au grisbi

 5 - Sur le pavé de Paris (Georges Auric) du film La fête à Henriette

 6 - Johnny (Pierre Delanoë / Victor Young) du film Johnny Guitar

 7 - Tant de vous (Georges Auric / Henri Contet / Max Ophüls) du film Lola Montes

 8 - Bonjour Paris (Joseph Kosma) du film M’sieur la caille

 9 - La Strada-Gelsomina (Nino Rota) du film La Strada

10 - Battitura (Angelo Francesco Lavagnino) du film Continent perdu

11 - Contadini del mare (Continent perdu) (Angelo Francesco Lavagnino) du film Continent perdu

12 - Si tu m’aimais (Georges Van Paris / René Clair) du film Les grandes manœuvres

13 - Le Rififi (Jacques Larue / Philippe Gérard) du film Du rififi chez les hommes

14 - Smile (Ton sourire est dans mon cœur) (Charlie Chaplin) du film Les temps modernes

33 tours 30cm Philips N77.305L

Michel Legrand - Rock And Roll - 1956

15 - Rock around the clock (Jimmy De Knight / Max C.Freedman)

16 - Sam baobab (Jean-Michel Defaye)

17 - Riff and rock (Michel Legrand)

18 - Eden-rock “Cool and cozy” (Michel Legrand)

45 tours EP Philips 432 103

Michel Legrand À L’Alhambra - 1956

19 - Gene et rick (Michel Legrand)

20 - Porcelaine de saxe (Michel Legrand)

21 - Debout les morts (Michel Legrand)

22 - Trombones à tout faire (Michel Legrand)

23 - Delirium tremens (Michel Legrand)

45 tours EP Philips 432 103

CD3

Michel Legrand et sa grande formation : Bonjour Paris - 1956

 1 - Bonjour Paris (Joseph Kosma)

 2 - La goualante du pauvre Jean (Marguerite Monnod / René Rouzaud)

 3 - J’ai deux amours (Géo Koger - Henri Varna / Vincent Scotto)

 4 - Hymne à l’amour (Edith Piaf / Marguerite Monnot)

 5 - À Paris dans chaque faubourg (Maurice Jaubert / René Clair)

 6 - Les lavandières du Portugal (André Popp / Roger Lucchesi)

 7 - French-cancan (Jacques Offenbach)

 8 - La mer (Charles Trenet)

 9 - C’est à Hambourg (Claude Delecluse - Michèle Senlis / Marguerite Monnot)

10 - Mon homme (Albert Willemetz / Maurice Yvain)

11 - Parlez-moi d’amour (Jean Lenoir)

12 - Le guinche (Léo Ferré)

13 - Bonjour Paris - Reprise (Joseph Kosma)

33 tours 30 cm Philips 77304L

Michel Legrand’s Folksongs For Orchestra : Scarlet Ribbons - 1959

14 - Scarlet Ribbons (For Her Hair) (Jack Segal / Evelyn Danzig)

15 - Red River Valley (Traditionnel)

16 - I Know Where I’m Going (Traditionnel)

17 - Goodnight, Irene (John Lomax / Huddie Ledbetter)

18 - Greensleeves (Traditionnel)

19 - Shenandoah (Traditionnel)

20 - En Passant Par La Lorraine (Traditionnel)

21 - Along The Colorado Trail (Traditionnel)

22 - Kisses Sweeter Than Wine (Paul Campbell / Joe Newman)

23 - All Throught The Night (Traditionnel)

24 - Londonderry Air (Traditionnel)

25 - Black, Black, Black (Is the Color of My True Love’s Hair) (Traditionnel)

26 - Automne (Traditionnel)

33 tours 30cm Philips B07838R - USA

CD4

Michel Legrand et son orchestre : Legrand In Rio - 1957

 1 - Caravan (Duke Ellington / Irving Mills - Juan Tizol)

 2 - Besame mucho (Consuelo Velasquez)

 3 - El humahuaqueno (Edmundo Zaldivar)

 4 - Vaya con dios (Buddy Pepper / Inez James - Larry Russell)

 5 - Siboney (Ernesto Lecuano)

 6 - Maria my own (Ernesto Lecuano / Wolfe Gilbert)

 7 - Maria Dolores (Fernando Garcia Morcillo)

 8 - Brazil (Ary Barroso / Bob Russell)

 9 - Bahia (Ary Barroso)

10 - Frenesi (Alberto Dominguez)

11 - Granada (Augustin Lara)

12 - La ultima noche (Bobby Collazo)

13 - Perfidia (Alberto Dominguez)

14 - Adios (Eddie Woods / Enric Madriguera)

33 tours 30 cm Columbia CL 1139 - USA

Grand orchestre symphonique, direction et piano Michel Legrand : Rhapsody in blue - 1962

15 - Rhapsody in blue (Georges Gershwin)

33 tours 25cm Philips 9004 CAB

CD5

Michel Legrand dirige les géants du jazz américain - Legrand Jazz - 1958

 1 - The Jitterbug Waltz (Fats Waller)

 2 - Stompin’ at the Savoy (Andy Razaf - Benny Goodman / Chick Webb - Edgar Sampson)

 3 - ‘Round Midnight (Bernie Hanighen - Cootie Williams - Thelonious Monk)

 4 - Django (John Lewis)

 5 - Night in Tunisia (Dizzy Gillepsie - Frank Paparelli)

 6 - In a Mist (Bix Beiderbecke)

 7 - Blue and Sentimental (Count Basie / Jerry Livingston - Mack David)

 8 - Don’t get Around Much Anymore (Duke Ellington / Sidney Keith Russell)

 9 - Wild man Blues (Jelly Roll Morton - Louis Amstrong)

10 - Nuages (Django Reinhart)

11 - Rosetta (Earl Hines / Henri Woode)

33 tours 30cm Philips B77.324 L

Michel Legrand Et Son Trio - Paris Jazz Piano - 1960

12 - Sous les ponts de Paris (Vincent Scotto / Jean Rodor)

13 - Paris in the spring (Mack Gordon / Harry Revel)

14 - April in Paris (Vernon Duke / Yip Harburg)

15 - Sous le ciel de Paris (Henri Giraud / Jean Dréjac)

16 - Paris canaille (Léo Ferré)

17 - Paris, je t’aime... d’amour (Victor Schertzinger / Henri Bataille)

18 - I love Paris (Cole Porter)

19 - The last time I saw Paris (Jerome Kern / Oscar Hammerstein)

20 - Moulin rouge (Georges Auric / Jacques Larue)

21 - La vie en rose (Louiguy / Edith Piaf)

33 tours 25cm Columbia CL1441 - UK

CD6

Michel Legrand et son orchestre : The Columbia Album of Cole Porter, Volume 1 - 1958

 1 - Begin the Beguine (Cole Porter)

 2 - In the still of the Night (Cole Porter)

 3 - Just One of Those Things (Cole Porter)

 4 - Ev’rytime we Say Goodbye (Cole Porter)

 5 - What is this Thing Called Love (Cole Porter)

 6 - True Love (Cole Porter)

 7 - Ridin’ High (Cole Porter)

 8 - Love of My Life (Cole Porter)

 9 - Too Darn Hot (Cole Porter)

10 - So in Love (Cole Porter)

11 - Don’t Fence Me in (Cole Porter)

12 - Anything Goes (Cole Porter)

33 tours 30cm Columbia CL1115 - USA

The Columbia Album of Cole Porter Volume 2 - 1958

13 - Love for Sale (Cole Porter)

14 - Close (Cole Porter)

15 - I get a Kick Out of You (Cole Porter)

16 - I Love You (Cole Porter)

17 - It’s All Right with Me (Cole Porter)

18 - I Am in Love (Cole Porter)

19 - Night and Day (Cole Porter)

20 - You Do Something to Me (Cole Porter)

21 - From this Moment On (Cole Porter)

22 - All Through the Night (Cole Porter)

23 - I’ve got You Under My Skin (Cole Porter)

24 - Blow, Gabriel, Blow (Cole Porter)

33 tours 30cm Columbia CL1115 - USA

CD7

Michel Legrand et son orchestre : De Marlène À Marilyn - 1957

 1 - Falling in Love Again

 2 - Sonny Boy (De Sylva - Lew Brown / R.Henderson - Marc Hely)

 3 - Avoir un bon copain (W.R.Heyman - Jean Boyer)

 4 - Sous les toits de Paris (Raoul Moretti)

 5 - Carioca (Vincent Youmans)

 6 - Qu’avez-vous fait de mon amant ? (Harry Warren / M.Duhamel)

 7 - Cheek to Cheek (Irving Berlin)

 8 - Il peut neiger (Wal Berg)

 9 - Démons et merveilles (Thirlet / Jacques Prévert)

10 - The Harry Lime Theme (Anton Karas)

11 - Si toi aussi tu m’abandonnes (Dimitri Tlomkin)

12 - O’ cangaceiro (A.R do Nascimento)

13 - Valse des orgueilleux (Paul Misraki)

14 - La rivière sans retour (Avec Christiane Legrand) (Lionel Newman)

15 - Only You (Buck Ram / A.Rand)

16 - Au bois de mon cœur (Georges Brassens)

33 tours Philips Réalités V.6

Grand orchestre symphonique, direction et piano Michel Legrand : Un américain à Paris - 1962

17 - Un américain à Paris (Georges Gershwin)

33 tours 25cm Philips 9004 CAB - 1960

Bande originale du film Une Femme Est Une Femme - 1961

18 - Blues chez le bougnat (Michel Legrand)

19 - Juke-box (Michel Legrand)

20 - Chanson d’Angela (Jean-Luc Godard / Michel Legrand), chant : Anna Karina

21 - Le lampadaire (Michel Legrand)

22 - Bastringue (Michel Legrand)

45 tours EP Philips - 432.595

CD8

Bande originale du film L’Amérique insolite - 1960

 1 - Rock surprise party (Michel Legrand)

 2 - Arrivée des pionniers (Michel Legrand)

 3 - Tango des jumeaux (Michel Legrand)

 4 - Les délinquants (Michel Legrand)

45 tours EP Barclay 70 317

Bande originale du film Terrain vague - 1960

 5 - Terrain vague (Francis Lemarque - Michel Legrand)

 6 - Rock kermesse (Francis Lemarque - Michel Legrand)

 7 - On s’aimera d’amour (Francis Lemarque - Michel Legrand)

 8 - Air indien (Francis Lemarque - Michel Legrand)

45 tours EP Philips 432.523 BE

Bande originale du film Le cave se rebiffe - 1961

 9 - La samba du dabe (Francis Lemarque - Michel Legrand)

10 - Générique (Francis Lemarque - Michel Legrand)

11 - La valse du cave (Francis Lemarque - Michel Legrand)

12 - Le boston du pigeon (Francis Lemarque - Michel Legrand)

45 tours EP Odeon SOE 3670

Bande originale du film Le gentleman d’Epsom - 1962

13 -
Thème des courses (Francis Lemarque - Michel Legrand)

14 - Strip-tease (Francis Lemarque - Michel Legrand)

15 - Valse (Francis Lemarque - Michel Legrand)

16 - Thème d’amour (Francis Lemarque - Michel Legrand)

17 - Tzigane (Francis Lemarque - Michel Legrand)

45 tours EP Barclay 70480

Bande originale du film Les sept péchés capitaux - 1962

18 - Luxure : Comédie musicale (Michel Legrand)

19 - Envie : Offenbach (Michel Legrand)

20 - Gourmandise : L’orphéon du gars Legrand (Michel Legrand)

21 - Paresse : Bolero Hawaïen (Michel Legrand)

22 - Colère : Soupe (Michel Legrand)

45 tours EP Philips 432.759 BE

Bande originale du film Eva - 1962

23 - Générique - Thème d’Eva (Michel Legrand)

24 - Thème de la lagune (Michel Legrand)

25 - Adam and Eva (Michel Legrand / Joseph Losey - Evan Jones), chant : Tony Middleton

26 - Eva chez elle (Michel Legrand)

45 tours EP Philips 432.821 BE

Bande originale du film Lola - 1962

27 - Roland rêve (Michel Legrand)

28 - Michel aux iles (Michel Legrand)

29 - Lola à L’Eldorado (Michel Legrand)

30 - Chanson de Lola (Agnès Varda / Michel Legrand), chant : Jacqueline Danno

45 tours EP Sinfonia -
SEP 507 M

CD9

Michel Legrand et son orchestre : Rendez-Vous À Paris - 1962

 1 - C’est si bon (Henri Betti / André Hornez)

 2 - Domino (Louis Ferrari / Jacques Plante)

 3 - Milord (Marguerite Monnot / Georges Moustaki)

 4 - Pigalle (Georges Ulmer / Géo Koger)

 5 - Que reste-t-il ? (Charles Trenet)

 6 - Boum! (Charles Trenet)

 7 - Venez donc chez moi (Paul Misraki / Jean Féline)

 8 - C’est magnifique (Cole Porter)

 9 - Maladie d’amour (Folklore antillais)

10 - La gars de Rochechouart (Henri Salvador / Boris Vian)

11 - Padam-padam (Norbert Glanzberg / Henri Contet)

12 - Petite fleur (Sidney Bechet)

13 - Clopin-clopant (Bruno Coquatrix / Pierre Dudan)

33 tours 30cm Philips B 77394 L

Michel Legrand et son orchestre : Broadway Is My Beat - 1962

14 - On the Street Where You Live (Alan Jay Lerner / Frederick Loewe)

15 - A wonderful Guy (Richard Rodgers / Oscar Hammerstein II)

16 - Yesterdays (Jerome Kern / Otto Harbach)

17 - Make Believe (Jerome Kern / Oscar Hammerstein II)

18 - Summertime (George Gerschwin / DuBose Heyward)

19 - The Surrey with the fringe on Top (Richard Rodgers / Oscar Hammerstein II)

20 - Bewitched (Richard Rodgers / Lorenz Hart)

21 - I got Plenty o’ Nuttin’ (George Gerschwin / Ira Gerschwin / DuBose Heyward)

22 - If I Loved You (Richard Rodgers / Oscar Hammerstein II)

23 - Oh what a Beautiful Mornin’ (Richard Rodgers / Oscar Hammerstein II)

24 - Old Devil Moon (Burton Lane / E.Y.Harburg)

25 - Smoke Gets in your Eyes (Jerome Kern / Otto Harbach)

33 tours 30cm
Philips PHM 200-000

CD10

Michel Legrand et son orchestre : Strings On Fire - 1962

 1 - Perfidia (Alberto Dominguez)

 2 - El choclo (Angel Villoldo)

 3 - Boulevard of Broken Dreams (Al Dubin / Harry Warren)

 4 - What is this Thing Called Love (Cole Porter)

 5 - Everything I Have is Yours (Harry Adamson / Burton Lane)

 6 - Jezebel (Wayne Shanklin)

 7 - Jalousie (Jacob Gade)

 8 - Close your Eyes (Bernice Petkere)

 9 - Temptation (Arthur Freed / Carmen Cavallaro / Nacio Herb Brown)

10 - Come Back to Sorrento (De Curtis)

11 - Tabu (Margarita Lecuona)

12 - All or Nothing at all (Jack Lawrence / Arthur Altman)

33 tours 30cm Columbia CL 1725

Michel Legrand et son grand orchestre à cordes - 1960

13 - Venus (E.Marshall / Jean Broussolle)

14 - Sophie (Charles Dumont / Maurice Vaucaire)

15 - La chanson d’Orphée (Manha de carnaval) du film Orfeu Negro (L.Bonfa - G.Chestem - A.Maria - F.Llenas)

16 - Adieu tristesse (Felicidade) du film Orfeu Negro (Antonio Carlos Jobim / J.H Rys - J.H Rys - V. Moraes - M.Camus - A.Salvet)

45 tours EP Philips 432.395 BE

Michel legrand se joue Claude Nougaro - 1962

17 - Les Don Juan (Claude Nougaro / Michel Legrand)

18 - Le cinéma (Claude Nougaro / Michel Legrand)

19 - Où ? (Claude Nougaro / Michel Legrand)

20 - Le jazz et la java (Claude Nougaro / Jacques Datin)

45 tours EP Philips 432.768 BE

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Bande originale du film Cléo de 5 à 7 - 1961

Chant : Corinne Marchand

21- Sans toi (Agnès Varda / Michel Legrand)

22 - La belle p... (Agnès Varda / Michel Legrand)

23 - La joueuse (Agnès Varda / Michel Legrand)

24 - La menteuse (Agnès Varda / Michel Legrand)

45 tours EP Philips - 432.596 BE