{"product_id":"the-thomas-crown-affair-original-mgm-motion-picture-soundtrack-enhanced-cd","title":"The Thomas Crown Affair: Original MGM Motion Picture Soundtrack [Enhanced CD]","description":"Amazon.com\n\nOne of the tricks in utilizing a contemporary form like jazz in scoring a film is to avoid the idiom's passing fads and clichés, which have severely dated many lesser projects. Paris-born composer Michel Legrand was classically trained in Europe and worked as an arranger and film scorer there, but also had the good fortune to work with jazz greats such as John Coltrane and Miles Davis in America.\nThis background helped elevate his \"symphonic jazz\" score to director Norman Jewison's romantic caper The Thomas Crown Affair beyond the excesses of much late '60s \"contemporary\" film music--with the exception of Noel Harrison's Rod McKuenesque rendering \"The Windmills of Your Mind.\" Harrison may have gotten the Oscar for it, but Dusty Springfield made the song a classic.\nOne minor fault: Ryko's generous interspersing of film dialogue between the cuts of its reissues occasionally distracts from Legrand's symphonic intent, but these cuts can easily be programmed out. --Jerry McCulley\n\nFrom the Label\n\nMichel Legrand's jazz-influenced \"symphony\" for this classic 1968 caper movie features the Academy Award winning, #1 single \"Windmills of Your Mind\" performed by Noel Harrison. The film stars Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway, and Michel Legrand's music received an Academy Award Nomination for Best Score. Legrand and Harrison were both interviewed for our liner notes. First Time on CD!\u003cbr\u003eASIN: B000005Z63\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.B000005Z63.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Michel Legrand|Legrand, Michel\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Audio cd\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Individually inspected: Guaranteed to play perfectly or your money back. Case may show wear and may be in library packaging. Ships Fast!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41623866376250,"sku":"DBV.B000005Z63.G","price":23.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/B000005Z63-0.jpg?v=1788056999","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/the-thomas-crown-affair-original-mgm-motion-picture-soundtrack-enhanced-cd","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}