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JAZZ ON FILM…Michel Legrand – The best of the New Wave era…

(gatefold LP ltd 500)

Celebrating the life of the legend that is Michel Legrand and music for the New Era, this stunning stand-alone collection, compiled by label owner Jason Lee Lazell features the jazz cuts from some of the most iconic films of the French New Wave era….

Michel has collaborated with jazz greats such as, Stan Getz, Sarah Vaughan, Bud Shank, Lena Horne and in later times, contemporary artists such as  Iggy Pop, Carla Bruni, Rufus Wainwright, Jamie Cullum, Madeline Peyroux…

Legrand’s songwriting skills flowered in the early 1950s through intimate acquaintance with the modern chanson movement in Paris, at first as a gifted piano accompanist. After the second world war, the US was nostalgic for French culture, and when Columbia Records commissioned an English-language album of chanson classics, the young Legrand was hired to steer it – and found himself with an 8m-selling hit.

By his mid-20s, Legrand was able to call the shots as a composer and arranger on both sides of the Atlantic. In 1958, he even had more than sufficient clout to hire Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Bill Evans – three of the hippest and most acclaimed young jazz musicians of the decade – to play sidemen’s roles on his Legrand Jazz session.

Michel was born in the Paris suburb of Bécon-les-Bruyères into a family with strong musical connections. His father, Raymond Legrand, was a composer, conductor and former pupil of Gabriel Fauré, and in his later years would go on to collaborate with Edith Piaf and Maurice Chevalier. His maternal uncle on his mother Marcelle’s side was the dance-band saxophonist and bandleader Jacques Hélian.

But Raymond left home when Michel was three, and his mother Marcelle (nee Ter-Mikaëlian), struggled to provide for the boy and his older sister, Christiane. He found a consoling friend in the flat’s battered piano and it quickly emerged that he had a gift. Christiane also played the instrument, and she was similarly destined for a successful career in music, as a jazz singer.

This gatefold LP features tracks from the new wave era which includes.…

Cleo de 5 a 7

Eva

La Baie de Anges

Les Sept PechesCapitaux

L’AmeriqueInsolite

Une Femme est Une femme

Les Plus Belles Escroqueries du Monde

Vivre sa vie

Plus a download code for the complete scores…

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This stunning  LP collection features a tailored made, stand-alone jazz compilation by Moochin’ About label owner Jason Lee lazell , with a download code for all the complete scores featured…

Marcello Mastroianni was born in Fontana Liri, Italy in 1924, but soon his family moved to Turin and then Rome. During WW2 he was sent to a German prison camp, but he managed to escape and hide in Venice. He debuted in films as an extra in Marionette(1939), then started working for the Italian department of “Eagle Lion Films” in Rome and joined a drama club, where he was discovered by directorLuchino Visconti. In 1957 Visconti gave him the starring part in his Fyodor Dostoevsky adaptation Le Notti Bianche(1957) and in 1958 he was fine as a little thief in Mario Monicelli‘s comedyPersons Unknown (1958). But his real breakthrough came in 1960, when Federico Fellinicast him as an attractive, weary-eyed journalist of the Rome jet-set in La Dolce Vita (1960); that film was the genesis of his “Latin lover” persona, which Mastroianni himself often denied by accepting parts of passive and sensitive men. He would again work with Fellini in several major films, like the exquisite Federico Fellini’s 8½ (1963) (as a movie director who finds himself at a point of crisis) and the touchingGinger and Fred (1986) (as an old entertainer who appears in a TV show). He also appeared as a tired novelist with marital problems in Michelangelo Antonioni‘s The Night (1961), as an impotent young man in Mauro Bolognini‘s Bell’ Antonio (1960) , as an exiled prince inJohn Boorman‘s Leo the Last (1970), as a traitor in Paolo and Vittorio Taviani‘s Allonsanfan(1974) and as a sensitive homosexual in love with a housewife in Ettore Scola‘s A Special Day (1977). He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor three times, for Divorce Italian Style (1961), A Special Day (1977), and Dark Eyes (1987). During the last decade of his life he worked with directors, like Theodoros Angelopoulos, Bertrand Blier and Raoul Ruiz, who gave him three excellent parts in Three Lives and Only One Death (1996). He died of pancreatic cancer in 1996…

 

Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau in La Notte

 

Marcello Mastroianni’s guide to being cool | BFI

 

Scores featured on this gatefold LP, are jazzier cuts from some of his most iconic films and include…

Adua e le compagne – Piero Piccioni

I SolitiIgnotti – Piero Umiliani

Casanova ’70 – Armando Trovajoli

Ieri, oggi, domani – Armando Trovajoli

I Compagni (The Organizer) – Carlo Rustichelli

Il cinema di – LelioLuttazzi

Otto e Mezzo – Nini Rota

Decima vittima – Piero Piccioni

Il postino e idrammipsicologici – Piero Piccioni

La loi – Gina LollobrigidaLaNotte – Giorgio Gaslini

La Dolce Vita – Giovnni Fusco, Nino Rota