Michel Legrand Orchestra - A Time for Love

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Johnny Mandel wrote memorable film scores - and took time out in early 1960s to arrange an album for Frank Sinatra on the singers new Reprise label ~ a bountiful time for Sinatra and Reprise as Sinatra's buddies lined up to pay tribute to the crooner. swinger..Spectacular vocal quartet HiLos did their hectic Clark Burroughs led take on Bloody Mary arranged by Warren Barker featured on their Reprise album of South Pacific. All great stuff and so memorable.. On Johnny Mandel front the movie for .Lee Marvin and Canadian John Vernon Point Blank,~ earlier Susan Hayworths I Want to Live~ a pioneering jazz inflected movie from late 1950s. with profile cameo for baritone saxist Gerry Mulligan The movie I Want to Live by turns hectic sleazy when jazz still seemed so vital. opening doors to burgeoning jazz avant garde of John Coltrane. And an early introduction to my kind of jazz . Not especially prolific but much of Johnny Mandel is music of subdued enduring quality. Pieces such as Shining Sea are typical of the composer at his best. It was from the mid 1960s satire Russians are Coming and the song benefited from excellent vocalising by Irene Kral and Peggy Lee. two 1950s singers of regal vocal quality not encountered today The music for "Russians are Coming" more memorable than the satirical movie. but such are the strange ways of films and their music. In the early 1970s Mandel the West Coast arranger composer had a sizeable hit with Mash theme Suicide is Painless Earlier there was Shadow of your Smile from Elizabeth Taylor 1960s movie Sandpiper . also his movie score for Moving Target starring Paul Newman in the mid 1960s. . Alto saxist Bud Shank who graced some key Legrand albums featured briefly on screen in I Want to Live. Mandel's songs may not be as numerous as Legrand's but A Time for Love is first division. given a very good account by Tony Bennett. Legrand gives it his oft used pizzicato treatment on a mid 1960s aptly sonorous strings and horns album -- among my favourites. Mandel is l alive at ninety.

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@MeetTheMuse Жыл бұрын

This is Michel Legrand at his best. Thanks so much!

@astrophytumvero1102 5 жыл бұрын

So so so beautiful music..

@stevens2772 5 жыл бұрын

Just for the people who may not know, or have just "stumbled" onto this record, your listening to the greatest Record of all-time....no its not a mirage, its really is.

@davidweston9115 3 жыл бұрын

thanks for mentioning that. Really. I was searching for young girls and umbrellas orchestral stuff and found this.

@stuartbritton7408 3 жыл бұрын

Some people have just got good taste. That's all it is. Just as some people like nice clothes or nice cars or nice girls. Some..just can't see it, though.

@cynthiahusband106 3 жыл бұрын

@Steven S you are so right Michel Legrand the ultimate composer of the 20 century ( as you may know he died Jan 2019) his compositions are masterpieces that will never be forgotten and will live on, legends live forever.

@stuartbritton7408 3 жыл бұрын

@@cynthiahusband106 I met him after one of his concerts outside Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre. He was a gentleman, and I sat in his limousine and talked for a while. I didn't butter him up but he realised that it was a magic moment in my life to have met him. I consider him one of the most brilliant, talented and original composers / arrangers for television, radio, film and cinema of all time. These kinds of men are rare.

@PhilWatson 10 жыл бұрын

Michel and Mandel, what a beautiful combination!

10 жыл бұрын

Merci cherie Phill avoir du plus belle une rêve, bonne nuit : ) XXx XxX XX xx

@PhilWatson 10 жыл бұрын

Vous êtes les bienvenus mine! Vous avez une très bonne journée! ;)) x

@lynnf.9440 7 жыл бұрын

So true, it amazing having two of the best composers together one this album is a treasure!

@hegzansiaani9213 4 жыл бұрын

Beautiful

@clipstone 11 жыл бұрын

Great to hear this. Percy Faith does a tremendous version of this and is worth tracking down, but I'd never heard this version which is also very nice indeed.

@lynnf.9440 7 жыл бұрын

His musical scores from the Other Side of Midnight and the Ode to Billy Joe soundtrack are also true gems!

@cynthiahusband106 4 жыл бұрын

There will never be another Michel legrand, his music , put such beauty in this turbulent world of ours , from a time for love to the other side of midnight , to the theme from withering heights , I will never see another Michel legrand , ever, thank my dearest Michel for giving me such beauty , cannot put into words how this music makes my heart soar and then at times, when feeling low , his music , understands my moods with all of its beauty enrich’s my life and will continue to do so Rest In Peace my beloved Michel legrand.

@jean-lucbersou758 2 жыл бұрын

lot comments about Michel LEGRAND seems to forget that " A TIME FOR LOVE " is a JOHNNY MANDEL's compo .

@hegzansiaani9213 4 жыл бұрын

Unique

@cynthiahusband106 3 жыл бұрын

What a legend, what gorgeous music , Michel Legrand , how lucky we were to have him for as long as we did, his music was not from this earth but from the heavens above RIP my dearest Mr Legrand. An icon who will never be forgotten but live on thru his absolutely gorgeous “out of this world” music. The Other side of Midnight , the music to this movie, magnificent. And so much more music he composed , that will live on forever.

@davidweston9115 3 жыл бұрын

this is the scene with the provocative chess playing I believe between McQueen and whats her name

@stuartbritton7408 3 жыл бұрын

Catherine Deneuve

@cynthiahusband106 2 жыл бұрын

In the Thomas Crown affair , great movie, the Michel Legrand music score playing as McQueen and Dunaway are playing chess is “Her eyes, His Eyes “ another beauty of a score by the great Legrand what a genius.

@gmonet46 11 жыл бұрын

I have never heard this version until I chanced upon it here, and frankly am listening to it for the 8th time while typing this. I went immediately to the internet download sites and no one had it, but miracle...I found a "new" sealed copy and ordered it immediately. I can never thank you enough, for a new addition to my extensive Legrand collection. It is beautiful, and has smatterings of his arrangements for the "Thomas Crown Affair" in the string plucking portion.