Michel Legrand
composer (You Must Believe in Spring)
Michel Legrand was a French composer and pianist known for film songs such as You Must Believe in Spring; his name comes up on Piano Jazz in 2002 in talk about ballads that singers love, and the workbook to Barry’s first workshop video uses that song in its chapter for singers.
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What Barry says
On Piano Jazz the talk turns to songs Barry has picked up in later years, such as How Do You Keep the Music Playing?, and then You Must Believe in Spring is named as a Michel Legrand song worth learning. The captions do not show which of the two pianists names Legrand.
Piano Jazz with Marian McPartland43:57
Every mention
1 moments in the recordings, 0 of them Barry speaking. Each says who is talking.
Piano Jazz with Marian McPartland
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Speaker unclear
You Must Believe in Spring named as a Michel Legrand song to learn; singers love it.
In the interviews and notes
The vocal chapter of the workbook to Barry’s first workshop video is built mainly on Michel Legrand’s You Must Believe in Spring: the E diminished chord applied to the song, warm-ups applied to it, and the related diminished chord in its first four bars. Billie’s Bounce closes the chapter.
Barry Harris (on video); Howard Rees (producer, The Barry Harris Workshop Video ¶23
The product page says the video’s vocal section gives singers the essentials, among them warming up, breathing, phrasing, improvising and how to present a song, and shows them on a ballad it does not name; the workbook’s vocal chapter suggests it is this song.
Barry Harris (on video); Howard Rees (producer, The Barry Harris Workshop Video ¶9Barry Harris (on video); Howard Rees (producer, The Barry Harris Workshop Video ¶23
Method ideas nearby
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