Michel Legrand: Noël! Noël!! Noël!!! – review

(Emarcy)This 80th birthday album, arranged and conducted for big band by the great French songwriter, movie-composer and jazz pianist Michel Legrand, is a set of Christmas evergreens for singers including Jamie Cullum, Rufus Wainwright, Madeleine Peyroux and Iggy Pop. For jazz listeners there's very little solo variation, and the principal appeal lies in Legrand's accomplished, though at times rather incongruous, arrangements. Cullum's hip timing almost saves Let it Snow, and weaving brass li...

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