Amour & After: Melissa Errico Sings Michel Legrand – Crazy Coqs
Amour & After: Melissa Errico sings Michel Legrand at the Crazy Coqs, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ With Melissa Errico you get the full package – a voice to die for like no other, a fabulous, sparkly blue dress she bought specially for the Crazy Coqs, an infectious giggle with all her storytelling and […]
Melissa Returns to 54 Below with “Legrand Difference” (RESCHEDULED)
RESCHEDULED due to COVID-19 guidelines. May 2020 ticketholders – stay tuned to Feinstein’s/54 Below for reticketing information. Melissa will make a return to New York’s Feinstein’s/54 Below with a brand-new show, Legrand Difference. She’ll sing Michel Legrand’s greatest hits like “Windmills of Your Mind” and “The Summer Knows” with her inimitable silver sound, but she’s […]
Column: The Purist
Standing behind a large movie screen this summer, I watched The Thomas Crown Affair in reverse. I was the curator of The Summer of Michel Legrand, a film festival at the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF) in New York City devoted to the great French film composer. I made welcome speeches and then slipped backstage to regroup […]
Melissa to Release Legrand Affair (Deluxe Edition)
Melissa’s next studio album is an exciting one! On November 8, Legrand Affair (Deluxe Edition) will be released.
The Extravagance and Genius of Michel Legrand (An Expanded Memoir)
English Edition, expanded from her New York Times memoir published in January 2019 As first published in La Regle Du Jeu I can still hear Michel Legrand’s voice in my head: “Melissa! Hurry! Come!” This was morning at the Music Box Theatre, an early rehearsal during the first previews of the Broadway musical Amour which […]
Melissa to Curate Legrand Film Festival
The French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF) honors the great French composer Michel Legrand, who died in January this year, with a special CinéSalon series devoted to his life and work. Curated by one of his longtime collaborators and greatest interpreters, singer and actress Melissa Errico, Summer of Michel Legrand brings together seven of his films […]
New Legrand Single!
Ghostlight Records will release Melissa’s new jazz-inflected recording of Oscar-winning composer Michel Legrand’s song “Hurry Home,” as a single on December 8.
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Paris for the Holidays
On October 18, 2011, Ghostlight Records released the long-awaited Legrand Affair — an exciting collaboration between Melissa and multi-Oscar winning film/jazz/pop composer Michel Legrand, one of Melissa’s musical idols, who conducted, arranged and wrote new material for Melissa with Alan and Marilyn Bergman, produced by the legendary Phil Ramone. It was recorded with a 100-piece pop symphony […]
Legrand Box Set Inclusion
Melissa appears on the release of an expansive 15-disc box set celebrating the music of Michel Legrand on Universal Records Jazz and Classics France. Melissa’s recording of “Maybe Someone Dreamed Us” – recorded with the Brussels Philharmonic conducted by Legrand and produced by Phil Ramone – will be included in the set. This exciting box […]