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Your Mind", "Watch What Happens", "What are You Doing the Rest of Your Life",

Somewhere in the dim recesses of my memory I remembered that I had an old soundtrack

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"You Must Believe in Spring", "Once Upon a Summertime" etc, etc.

you realize some of his compositions include "I Will Wait for You", "The Windmills of

composed by Michel from a French film on which Miles Davis was featured. It all sort of

Sandy Gross

Emmys and, in his own words, "I'm in charge of love." You quickly get the point when

Sandy Gross is the Founder and President Emeritus of Definitive Technology and is a

Listening!

Ron Carter and Lewis Nash. I knew Michel was a French composer and jazz pianist.

solo piano with many of his favorites. I also understand there is a great Sarah Vaughn CD

incredibly emotional and passionate. Of course Ron

And did I mention he is also a great pianist? It is

I stayed for both sets Tuesday and returned Sunday

night so my fiancé Anne could experience it. I just

never realized who was responsible for many of my

Carter is one of the great bass players and Lewis

Onward & Upward,

with her singing Legrand. He will return at the same time next year; so will we. Happy

in mind. In this case his piano playing was absolutely

one, "Michel Legrand by Michel Legrand" on Decca 289 468 512-2. It's Michel playing

clicked so I headed uptown on the F train. Little did I realize the treat I was in store for.

Nash's drumming was very tasty.

huge Jazz fan with an impressive collection on vinyl and CD. Sandy periodically reports

favorite songs. Now I know. I am not that familiar with his CDs but I did pick up a great

always amazing to hear a great composer perform their

On February 26 I had the urge to go hear some jazz (I was in NY that week). I browsed

on the Jazz concerts he attends.

compositions because they know exactly what they had

through the N.Y. Times picks and saw that Michel Legrand was playing at Birdland with

sublime and his vocals, while not exactly pure, were

Michel Legrand is one of the world's great composers. He has won 3 Oscars and 5