Paris Jazz Piano
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Paris Jazz Piano is a studio album by jazz pianist Michel Legrand
Michel Legrand
Michel Jean Legrand is a French musical composer, arranger, conductor, and pianist...

, released in 1959 on Philips Records
Philips Records
Philips Records is a record label that was founded by Dutch electronics company Philips. It was started by "Philips Phonographische Industrie" in 1950. Recordings were made with popular artists of various nationalities and also with classical artists from Germany, France and Holland. Philips also...

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Track listing

  1. "Sous les ponts de Paris" (Jean Rodor, Scotto
    Vincent Scotto
    Vincent Scotto was a French composer.-Biography:Vincent Scotto started his career in Marseille in 1906 and later moved to Paris. Over the course of a lifetime, he wrote 4,000 songs as well as sixty operettas. He was friends with Marcel Pagnol and wrote music for his films...

    ) - 2:55
  2. "Paris in the Spring
    Paris in the Spring
    Paris in the Spring is a popular song composed in 1935, with lyrics by Mack Gordon and music by Harry Revel. It was first introduced by Mary Ellis in the film Paris in Spring. A version was also recorded by Ray Noble and His Orchestra...

    " (Revel, Gordon) - 3:32
  3. "April in Paris
    April in Paris (song)
    "April in Paris" is a song composed by Vernon Duke with lyrics by E. Y. Harburg in 1932 for the Broadway musical, Walk A Little Faster. The original 1933 hit was performed by Freddy Martin, and the 1952 remake was by the Sauter-Finegan Orchestra, whose version made the Cashbox Top 50.Composer Alec...

    " (Harburg, Duke) - 5:14
  4. "Sous le ciel de Paris" (Giraud
    Hubert Giraud
    Hubert Yves Adrian Giraud is a French composer and lyricist.Giraud began his career playing the harmonica with Django Reinhardt's Quintette du Hot Club de France. In 1941, he was recruited by Ray Ventura to play the guitar during Ventrua's big band tour of South America...

    , Jean Dréjac) - 1:52
  5. "Paris Canaille" (Ferré
    Léo Ferré
    Léo Ferré was a Franco-Monegasque poet, composer, singer and musician.Born in Monaco, Ferré mixed love and melancholy with moral anarchy, lyricism with slang, rhyming verse with prose monologues...

    ) - 2:04
  6. "Paris, je t'aime... d'amour" (Clifford Grey
    Clifford Grey
    Clifford Grey was an English songwriter, actor, librettist and Olympic medalist. His birth name was Percival Davis, and he was also known as Clifford Gray, Tippi Gray, Tippi Grey, Tippy Gray and Tippy Grey.As a writer, Grey contributed prolifically to West End and Broadway shows, as librettist and...

    , Henri Battaille, Victor Schertzinger
    Victor Schertzinger
    Victor L. Schertzinger was an American composer, film director, film producer, and screenwriter. His films include Paramount on Parade , Something to Sing About with James Cagney, and the first two "Road" pictures Road to Singapore and Road to Zanzibar...

    ) - 4:24
  7. "I Love Paris
    I Love Paris
    "I Love Paris" is a popular song written by Cole Porter and published in 1953. The song was introduced by Lilo in the musical Can-Can.Was the title of Michel Legrand's most popular album, which included an orchestral arrangement of the song...

    " (Porter
    Cole Porter
    Cole Albert Porter was an American composer and songwriter. Born to a wealthy family in Indiana, he defied the wishes of his domineering grandfather and took up music as a profession. Classically trained, he was drawn towards musical theatre...

    ) - 2:52
  8. "The Last Time I Saw Paris
    The Last Time I Saw Paris
    The Last Time I Saw Paris is a 1954 romantic drama made by MGM. It is loosely based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story "Babylon Revisited." It was directed by Richard Brooks, produced by Jack Cummings and filmed on locations in Paris and the MGM backlot. The screenplay was by Julius J. Epstein,...

    " (Kern, Hammerstein II) - 2:25
  9. "Moulin Rouge
    The Song from Moulin Rouge
    "The Song from Moulin Rouge" is a popular song that first appeared in the 1952 film Moulin Rouge....

    " (Auric, Engvick) - 2:41
  10. "La Vie en rose
    La vie en rose
    "La Vie en Rose" was the signature song of French singer Édith Piaf.-Signature song of Édith Piaf:Édith Piaf first popularized La Vie en Rose in 1946. The lyrics were written by Piaf and the melody of the song by "Louiguy" . Initially, Piaf's peers and her songwriting team did not think the song...

    " (Piaf, Louiguy) - 3:08

Recorded on October 20 (5, 7, 10), October 21 (1, 9), October 23 (8) and November 9 (2, 3, 6), 1959.
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