Michel Legrand – Twenty Songs Of The Century (1974) [Reissue 2016] {SACD ISO + FLAC 24bit/88,2kHz}

Michel Legrand is a French musical composer, arranger, conductor, and jazz pianist. He is best known for his often haunting, jazz-tinged film music. This is an unusual album for Michel Legrand – a suite of tracks based around 20th Century standards – starting with older evergreens, and moving into some very hip tunes from the 60s! The orchestrations are amazing – with tones, colors, and rhythmic approaches that surpass conventional expectations for many of the tunes – and which are handled in a mixture of lushness and loneliness that recalls Legrand’s strongest soundtrack work of the time.

Tracklist:
01. St. Louis Blues (Handy)
02. My Man (Yvain; Willemetz; Charles; Pollock)
03. Charleston (Mack; Johnson)
04. Mack the Knife (Weill; Brecht; Blitzstein)
05. Malagueña (Lecuona)
06. Stormy Weather (Arlen; Koehler)
07. Solitude (Ellington; De Lange; Mills)
08. Summertime (Gershwin; Heyward)
09. Begin the Beguine (Porter)
10. Cheek to Cheek (Berlin)
11. My Funny Valentine (Rodgers; Hart)
12. Over the Rainbow (Arlen; Harburg)
13. How High the Moon (Lewis; Hamilton)
14. Laura (Raksin; Mercer)
15. Autumn Leaves (Kosma; Prévert; Mercer)
16. One Note Samba (Jobim; Mendonça; Hendricks)
17. Moon River (Mancini; Mercer)
18. I Will Wait for You (Legrand; Demy; Gimbel)
19. Yesterday (Lennon; McCartney)
20. Bridge Over Troubled Water (Paul Simon)