Impex -  IMP8315 - Hybrid Sacd Stereo  - Limited Edition

Mastered at Bernie Grundman by Chris Bellman

Remastered by Chris Bellman & Bob Donnelly at Bernie Grundman Mastering from the Original Analog Stereo Masters for the First Time! 
Hear this album as it was meant to be heard! Absolutely Stunning! 

Features Performances by John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Herbie Mann, Bill Evans & More 

Legrand Jazz features Michel Legrand with 31 of America's greatest jazzmen featuring Miles Davis.

In 1962, the best jazz musicians in America were brought together by a 27-year old French compositional prodigy. The record they made is a legendary mix of Gaelic lyricism and a simmering jazz soul.

Legrand Jazz was greeted by an enthusiastic review in the magazine Down Beat. Dom Cerulli awarded it five stars out of a possible five.

Audiophile Quality Hybrid SACD!
Features Performances by John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Bill Evans, Ben Webster & 27 More Jazz Greats! The greatest assembly of musical talent ever on one album!

In 1958, a young, successful French composer-arranger with a major infatuation on American jazz, worked his way to New York and convinced the very best players of the time to record an album of largely jazz standards. Michel Legrand would go on to win numerous prizes and accolades (3 Oscars, 5 Grammies, 2 Palmes D’or, etc.), but little of what followed matched the sheer brilliance of Legrand Jazz. 

Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Ben Webster, Phil Woods and practically every other session man in town signed up for sessions with Legrand to record his idiosyncratic arrangements of standards (“Django”, “Don’t Get Around Much Anymore”, “Night in Tunisia”, etc.). Instead of regurgitating then current bop styles, he reinvented the very nature of orchestral jazz band repertoire to make a unique and forward-looking statement on the genre. 

The sound of Impex’s SACD  preserves the wide soundstage of late 50’s Columbia recordings while creating intimate spaces between players on the stage for maximum definition. This rare, highly-praised recording has never sounded as good as it does now. Go big with Legrand Jazz. 

Legrand Jazz was greeted by an enthusiastic review in the magazine Down Beat. Dom Cerulli awarded it five stars out of a possible five.

The sound of Impex’s Super Audio CD preserves the wide soundstage of late 50’s Columbia recordings while creating intimate spaces between players on the stage for maximum definition. This rare, highly-praised recording has never sounded as good as it does now. Go big with Legrand Jazz. 

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• Super Audio CD
• SACD Stereo SACD Layer
• This Hybrid SACD contains an HDCD encoded Stereo CD layer which is playable on most conventional CD Players!
• Analog mix-down transfer of the original 1958 work tapes by Mark Wilder at Battery Studios, New York, NY
• Mastered By Chris Bellman & Bob Donnelly at Bernie Grundman Mastering!
• DSD authoring by Gus Skinas at Super Audio Center
• Deluxe 24-page full-color textured/matte-finish booklet

Musicians:

Miles Davis
John Coltrane
Bill Evans
Phil Woods
Ben Webster
Herbie Mann
Donald Byrd
Art Farmer
Hank Jones
Teo Macero

Selections:
1. The Jitterbug Waltz (Fats Waller)
2. Nuages (Django Reinhardt)
3. Night In Tunisia (Dizzy Gillespie)
4. Blue and Sentimental (Count Basie)
5. Stompin' At the Savoy (Benny Goodman)
6. Django (John Lewis)
7. Wild Man Blues (Jelly Roll Morton)
8. Rosetta (Earl Hines)
9. 'Round Midnight (Thelonious Monk)
10. Don't Get Around Much Anymore (Duke Ellington)
11. In A Mist (Bix Beiderbecke)