Le grandstanding

[Serial_Apologist]

Sun 5 Jan

http://www.alynshipton.co.uk/blog

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0026ks9

Mon 6 - Fri 10 Jan

Michel Legrand is Composer of the Week (1932-2019) - jazz tracks are included in some episodes

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0026ktp

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0026kv0

[Ein Heldenleben]

I’m rather looking forward to this. Not just an ultra talented popular composer but a superb jazz pianist . I can’t think of any other song writer who relied so heavily on cycles of fifths. They feature in just about all his better known hits : Windmills of Your Mind , I will Wait for You, Chanson de Maxence (You Must Believe in Spring ) , How Do You Keep The Music Playing. Of course it’s his extended use of these seductive harmonies that really catches the ear. A trick Rachmaninov also uses endlessly.
Two outstanding versions of the latter two songs Bill Evans / Tony Bennett (Spring ) and George Benson / Carmen Bradford (music) with the Count Basie Band - two of the all time great vocal jazz / pop recordings those .

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

"What are you doing the rest of your life" (Legrand) Barney Wilen quartet. A favourite.

https://youtu.be/DiCjmzpqUA0?feature=shared