atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
How do you keep the music playing? That's not just the title of an Oscar-nominated song Michel Legrand wrote in 1982, it's a question he has been asking all of his life.
LondonJazz (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Review: Chris Botti (Cadogan Hall, Tuesday November 3rd by Frank Griffith) Chelsea Bridge. American trumpeter, Chris Botti, bridges Chelsea and Jazz at Cadogan Hall on 3 November. Botti's show was ticking all the right boxes. He was bringing an untypical jazz audience to a jazz-influenced programme; he was delivering plenty of lively improvisation to familiar melodies and settings. His wonderfully...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
New York, New York-September 29, 2009-Charito continues to find her way into the hearts of her peers and fans by continually releasing recordings with impressive collaborations. This time out she meets with renowned French composer Michel Legrand on Watch What Happens on CT Music. The CD is set for release October 6th...
The One-Line Review (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
France/West Germany Feature Film Original Title: Les parapluies de Cherbourg Writer/Director: Jacques Demy Cinematographer: Jean Rabier Composer: Michel Legrand Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Nino Castelnuovo, Anne Vernon, Marc Michel, Ellen Farner, Mireille Perrey Demy’s majestically gaudily coloured musical, in which all of the dialogue is sung by its beautiful young cast - producing a portrait of...
It's Eclectic! It's Eccentric! It's RadioNowhere's... (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Filmic 2 11th September 2009 Ley Bricknell Track - Composer - Artist - Film: Main Title The Wind and the Lion Jerry Goldsmith Down To the River To Pray Traditional-Alison Krauss-Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? Leaving Wallbrook, On the Road Hans Zimmer-Rain Man If I Were King of the Forest Harburg/Arlen-Bert Lahr-The Wizard of Oz Lost In Space John Williams-Apollo Four Forty Harmonica Ennio Morricone-Once...
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 08/14/2009
Fernando Perdomo owns a collection of 5,000 vinyl records, rarities of yesteryear that gain value as music turns into a string of sounds lost in cyberspace. When he was 8, the now 28-year-old Miami musician began to dig for treasures at the flea markets of Flagler Dog Track and Tropical Park. That's how he found The Beatles, The Who, Stevie Wonder, Yes, Chicago, Alan Parsons and Todd Rundgren, who...
991 Sleevenotes (Free subscription) | 06/20/2009
In our quest to 'diversify' and get more 'with it', a number of soundtrack gems from the 991 vaults will be added over the next couple of weeks. Lush orchestrations, bad-ass grooves, modernism, a chance to experiment, soundtracks of yore have proven in recent years to be not only a collectors' paradise but perfect material for DJs and producers alike. These will be exclusively original pressings, predominantly...
BrontëBlog (Free subscription) | 06/09/2009
More music inspired in some way or other by the Brontës: 1. The latest project of the Berlin-based jazz singer Kara Johnstad is devoted to Michel Legrand's music: LE GRAND LOVE is a fantastic new project in which I sing the works of the great French composer Michel Legrand. It is a vision I have carried with me for years and 2009 it has premiered to full houses. The band in AMAZING! Rolf Zielke...
Tiny Mix Tapes (Free subscription) | 06/01/2009
Once again, Beach House are heading overseas for a brief European tour, and once again they are keeping any new information which might give this story depth or, say, interest, under wraps. If you're a fan of the Baltimore-based dream-pop band, you already know the basics: the duo consists of guitarist/keyboardist Alex Scally and vocalist/organist Victoria LeGrand, who is the niece of French film composer...
Liberal England (Free subscription) | 05/31/2009
Which singer from the 1960s competed for Britain in two Winter Olympics? The answer is Noel Harrison , who was part of the skiing team at Oslo in 1952 and Cortina d'Ampezzo (Italy) in 1956. He is best known for this song, which was used on the soundtrack of the original version of The Thomas Crown Affair in 1968. Written by Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman and Michel Legrand, it won the Oscar for the...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 03/07/2009
Take Many Textures, Then Mix Together A 77-year-old child prodigy with bushy eyebrows and the heart of an adolescent swooning at his first exposure to Rachmaninoff: that describes the sensibility of {{Michel Legrand = 8674}}, the French jazz pianist and composer and multiple Oscar winner who is playing a rare New York engagement at Birdland, accompanied by a string quartet, harp, bass and drums...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 03/05/2009
Music Reviews: Opening with a series of flourishing piano arpeggios, the string section added richly cinematic textures to "Watch What Happens," the durable theme from "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg," one of the more than 200 film and TV scores penned by the prolific three-time Oscar winner.
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