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Michel Legrand at Elgin & Winter Garden Theatre Centre

Toronto Event Date: Sat, November 14, 2009

08:00 PM

Neighbourhood:
downtown
Activity:
live music, live performance
Venue type:
theater
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Music:
jazz,  french,  instrumental,  
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Elgin & Winter Garden Theatre Centre
189 Yonge Street
Toronto, ON M5B 1M4

416-314-2901

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Michel Legrand

Michel Jean Legrand, born February 24, 1932 in Paris, France made his fame and fortune from writing for films, but he has done significant work in jazz on an occasional basis. In 1957, he arranged a set of dixieland and swing standards for a French orchestra (recorded on Philips), in 1958 he used three different all-star groups for the classic Legrand Jazz (with such sidemen as Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Phil Woods, Herbie Mann, Bill Evans, Ben Webster, Art Farmer and others), in 1968 he recorded a strictly jazz set with a trio and Legrand has written for albums led by Stan Getz (1971)…



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