Michel Legrand Legrand Jazz 180g 45rpm 2LP (Use code: FREESHIPPING at Checkout Two Orders or More UK Only) Pre-Order low stock

100% Analog 180g 45rpm Vinyl 2LP!

All-Analog Mastering by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering! Hear This Album as it Was Meant to be Heard! Absolutely Stunning!

The Greatest Assembly of Musical Talent Ever on One Album! Features Performances by John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Bill Evans, Ben Webster & 27 More Jazz Greats!

Pressed at Record Technology for Silent Surfaces and True Fidelity to the Analog Source

Academy and Grammy ® Award-winning composer/arranger Michel Legrand (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Summer of '42, The Thomas Crown Affair) was not a household name in America in 1958, but he was renowned among musicians and a life-long fanatic of American jazz and its players. Legrand Jazz is the result of Legrand traveling to America and using his Columbia Records contract to enlist label mates (and soon to be legends) Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Paul Chambers, Ben Webster, Hank Jones, Herbie Mann, Phil Woods, Donald Byrd, Art Farmer, Sheldon Powell, Teo Macero, Milt Hinton, Jimmy Cleveland, and others to record his fantastical reimagining of 11 jazz standards. Not merely content to lay down another Parisian hard-bop play-along, the 27-year-old worked against type and expectations at every turn, creating a moody, idiosyncratic landscape for unusual call-and-response chase solos, washes of harp and vibes, and sultry horn canvases. Davis, Coltrane and the others manage to fall in with the diverse, mellow flow of Legrand's arrangements while keeping their unique musical voices.