Michel Legrand discography explained

This is a list of albums by Michel Legrand.

Selected discography

Albums

• 1954 I Love Paris
• 1955 Holiday in Rome
• 1956 Castles in Spain
• 1957 Bonjour Paris
• 1957 C'est magnifique
• 1958 Legrand in Rio
• 1958 The Columbia Album of Cole Porter
• 1959 Paris Jazz Piano
• 1959 The New I Love Paris
• 1959 Legrand Jazz
• 1960 Legrand Piano
• 1962 Strings On Fire (Philips Records)
• 1963 Michel Legrand Big Band Plays Richard Rodgers (Philips Records)
• 1964 Archi-Cordes
• 1964 Plays for Dancers (US release of Archi-Cordes)
• 1967 Violent Violins (UK release of Archi-Cordes)
• 1967 Cinema Legrand (MGM Records)
• 1968 At Shelly's Manne-Hole
• 1968 Si C'est Ça La Musique À Papa
• 1968 Je M'appelle Barbra (Columbia)
• 1974 Twenty Songs of the Century
• 1980 Atlantic City
• 1983 After the Rain
• 1993 Michel Plays Legrand
• 1995 Michel Legrand Big Band
• 2002 Michel Legrand by Michel Legrand
• 2013 Entre elle et lui (with Natalie Dessay)

With Miles Davis, Bill Evans, Paul Chambers, John Coltrane

• Legrand Jazz (Philips - Europe / Columbia - the Americas, 1958)

With Stan Getz

• Communications '72 (Verve, 1972)

With Lena Horne

• Lena & Michel (RCA, 1975)

With Bud Shank

• Windmills of Your Mind (World Pacific, 1969)

With Sarah Vaughan

• Sarah Vaughan with Michel Legrand (Atlantic, 1972)

With Frankie Laine

• Foreign Affair (Philips -Europe / Columbia -US, 1958)
• Reunion in Rhythm (Columbia, 1959)

With Melissa Errico

• Legrand Affair, (Ghostlight Records, 2019)

With Stephane Grapelli

• legrand grappeli, (Verve Records, 1992)

Filmography

• Lovers Net (Les amants du Tage) (1954)
• Continente perduto (orchestrated) (1955)
• Charmants garçons (1958)
• Le Triporteur (1958)
• L'Amérique insolite (1958)
• L'Americain se détend (1958)
• Terrain vague (co-composer) (1960)
• A Woman Is a Woman (Une femme est une femme) (1960)
• The French Game (Le cœur battant) (1960)
• Les Portes claquent (1960)
• Lola (1961)
• Cléo from 5 to 7 (Cléo de 5 à 7) (1961)
• The Seven Deadly Sins (Les Sept péchés capitaux) (co-composer) (1961)
• The Winner (Un cœur gros comme ça) (1961)
• Retour a New York (1962)
• Comme un poisson dans l'eau (1962)
• Eva (1962)
• Une grosse tete (1962)
• My Life to Live (Vivre sa Vie: Film en Douze Tableaux) (1962)
• Bay of Angels (La baie des anges) (1962)
• L'Amerique lunaire (1962)
• Histoire d'un petit garcon devenu grand (1962)
• Le Joli Mai (1962)
• Illuminations (1963)
• Le grand escroc (1963)
• L'Empire de la nuit (1963)
• Love Is a Ball (1963)
• The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Les Parapluies de Cherbourg) (1964)
• A Ravishing Idiot (Une ravissante idiote) (1964)
• Band of Outsiders (Bande à part) (1964)
• Fascinante amazonie (1964)
• Les amoureux du France (1964)
• La Douceur du village (1964)
• A Matter of Resistance (La vie de château) (1965)
• Quand passent les faisans (1965)
• (Tendre voyou) (1965)
• Monnaie de singe (1965)
• Who Are You, Polly Maggoo? (Qui êtes-vous, Polly Maggoo?) (1966)
• The Plastic Dome of Norma Jean (1966)
• L'an 2000 (1966)
• Gold and Lead (L'or et le plomb) (1966)
• The Young Girls of Rochefort (Les Demoiselles de Rochefort) (1967)
• A Matter of Innocence (also known as Pretty Polly) (1967)
• L'homme à la Buick (1967)
• How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life (1967)
• Sweet November (1968)
• The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
• Play Dirty (1968)
• The Appointment (rejected) (1968)
• Ice Station Zebra (1968)
• Michel's Mixed Up Musical Bird (1968)
• The Swimming Pool (La Piscine) (1968)
• Castle Keep (1969)
• The Happy Ending (1969)
• The Picasso Summer (1969)
• Pieces of Dreams (1969)
• The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart (1970)
• Wuthering Heights (1970)
• Donkey Skin (Peau d'Âne) (1970)
• The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun (La Dame dans l'auto avec des lunettes et un fusil) (1970)
• The Go-Between (1971)
• The Married Couple of the Year Two (Les mariés de l'an II) (1971)
• Summer of '42 (1971)
• Le Mans (1971)
• (La Poudre d'escampette) (1971)
• A Few Hours of Sunlight (Un peu de soleil dans l'eau froide) (1971)
• A Time for Loving (Also: Paris Was Made for Lovers) (1972)
• La vieille Fille (The Old Maid) (1972)
• Lady Sings the Blues (1972)
• Portnoy's Complaint (1972)
• Hearth Fires (Les feux de la Chandeleur) (1972)
• One Is a Lonely Number (1972)
• The Outside Man (Un homme est mort) (1972)
• A Doll's House (1973)
• The Nelson Affair (Also: Bequest to the Nation) (1973)
• Story of a Love Story (1973)
• The Hostages (Le gang des otages) (1973)
• 40 Carats (1973)
• Cops and Robbers (1973)
• Breezy (1973)
• The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing (rejected) (1973)
• The Three Musketeers (1973)
• A Slightly Pregnant Man (L'Evenement le plus important depuis que l'homme marche sur la lune) (1973)
• Our Time (1974)
• F for Fake (1974)
• Section spéciale (Special Section) (1975)
• The Savage (Le Sauvage) (1975)
• Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York (1975)
• Gable and Lombard (1976)
• Ode to Billy Joe (1976)
• Le voyage de noces (1976)
• The Smurfs and the Magic Flute (La flute à six schtroumpfs) (1976)
• Gulliver's Travels (1977)
• The Other Side of Midnight (1977)
• Routes to the South (Les routes du sud) (1978)
• Mon premier amour (1978)
• The Phoenix (1978)
• Lady Oscar (1979)
• Je Vous Ferai Aimer La Vie (1979)
• The Fabulous Adventures of The Legendare Baron Munchhausen (Les fabuleuses aventures du légendaire Baron de Munchausen) (1979)
• Atlantic City (1980)
• The Hunter (1980)
• The Mountain Men (1980)
• Les Uns et les Autres (also known as Bolero) (1980)
• Hinotori (co-composer) (1980)
• Falling in Love Again (1980)
• What Makes David Run? (Qu'est-ce qui fait courir David?) (1981)
• Le Cadeau (1981)
• Chu Chu and the Philly Flash (1981)
• Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid (1982)
• Slapstick of Another Kind (1982) (1982 cut)
• La revanche des humanoides (1982)
• Best Friends (1982)
• The Gift (1982)
• Yentl (1983)
• Never Say Never Again (1983)
• A Love in Germany (Un amour en Allemagne) (1983)
• Secret Places (1984)
• Love Songs (Paroles et musique) (1984)
• Palace (1985)
• Partir, revenir (1985)
• Train to Hell (Train d'enfer) (1985)
• Parking (1985)
• Crossings (1986)
• Sins (1986)
• Casanova (1987)
• Social Club (Club de rencontres) (1987)
• Spirale (1987)
• Switching Channels (1988)
• Three Seats for the 26th (Trois places pour le 26) (1988)
• Five Days in June (Cinq jours en juin) (1989)
• Escape from Paradise (Fuga dal Paradiso) (1990)
• Dingo with Miles Davis (1991)
• Gaspard et Robinson (1991)
• The Burning Shore (1991)
• The Pickle (1993)
• Ready to Wear (Prêt-à-Porter) (1994)
• Angels in the Outfield (1994)
• Les Misérables (1995)
• Les Enfants de Lumière (1995)
• Aaron's Magic Village (1997)
• Madeline (1998)
• Doggy Bag (1999)
• Season's Beatings (La Bûche) (1999)
• The Blue Bicycle (La Bicyclette Bleue) (2000)
• And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen (2002)
• Cavalcade (2005)
• Disco (2008)
• Oscar and the Lady In Pink (Oscar Et Le Dame En Rose) (2009)
• La rançon de la gloire (2014)
• The Guardians (2017)
• The Other Side of the Wind (2018)
• J'ai perdu Albert (2018)
• May December (2023) (posthumous, reorchestrated by Marcelo Zarvos)

Computer games

• Torin's Passage (1994)^[1]

Television

• with Coloratura Soprano Dame Julie Andrews Music Around the World (1969)
• Brian's Song (1971)
• Oum le Dauphin Blanc (1971)
• The Adventures of Don Quixote (1973)
• It's Good to Be Alive (1974)
• Cage Without a Key (1975)
• Michel's Mixed-Up Musical Bird (1978; an ABC Afterschool Special)
• Once Upon a Time... Space (1981)
• A Woman Named Golda (1982)
• The Jesse Owens Story (1984)
• Promises to Keep (1985)
• As Summers Die (1986)
• Once Upon a Time... Life (1986)
• Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less (1990)
• La Montagna dei Diamanti (1991)
• Once Upon a Time... The Americas (1991)
• Once Upon a Time... The Discoverers (1994)
• The Ring (1995)
• Once Upon a Time... The Explorers (1997)
• Songbird Sings Legrand (A Concert with Regine Velasquez) (2002)
• Once Upon a Time... The Planet Earth (2008)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Music from Torin's Passage: original recordings by Michel LeGrand. Al Lowe's Humor Site. 4 May 2014.