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Michel Legrand (born February 24, 1932 in Paris) is a France|French musical composer, arranger, conductor, and pianist of Armenians|Armenian descent.
Legrand has composed more than two hundred film and television scores, several musicals, and made well over a hundred albums. He has won three Academy Award|Oscars (out of 13 nominations), five Grammy Award|Grammys, and has been nominated for an Emmy Award|Emmy. He was twenty-two when his first album, ''I Love Paris'', became one of the best-selling instrumental albums ever released. He is a virtuoso jazz and classical pianist and an accomplished arranger and conductor who performs with orchestras all over the world. He studied music at the Paris Conservatoire from 1943-50 (ages 11-20), working with, among others, Nadia Boulanger, the teacher also of many other composers, including Aaron Copland and Philip Glass. Legrand graduated with top honors as both a composer and a pianist.
Jazz recordings
In the early 1950s, Legrand was one of the first Europeans to work with jazz innovators such as Dizzy Gillespie and Stan Getz. His jazz-oriented projects, though infrequent, have been almost uniformly outstanding. While on a visit to the U.S. in 1958, Legrand collaborated with such musicians as Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Phil Woods, Ben Webster, Hank Jones, and Art Farmer in an album of inventive orchestrations of jazz stand... read all
