Michel Legrand, a French pianist who began his career writing arrangements for jazz and pop musicians in the early 1950s before becoming one of the most prolific sophisticated sentimentalists of French and American film in the 1960s and beyond as a composer, arranger and conductor, died on January 26. He was 86.
Legrand's jazz recordings began with Dizzy…
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