MICHEL COLOMBIER

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Born on May 23 1939, Michel Colombier began his formal musical education at the age of six. His father taught him piano, harmony, counterpoint and conducting. By eleven he started to improvise and at fourteen he discovered jazz and performed with small combos and big bands for which he wrote daring jazz arrangements. In the meantime, his father continued his education by adding the study of church organ and Gregorian chant. During his stint in the French Army he continued composing, arranging and playing the widest range of music from chamber orchestra to jazz band.

At the age of 22, he spent one year with French avant-garde composer Michel Magne and was hired as Musical Director of 'Barclay Records.' His first assignment was to arrange Charles Aznavour's first album in English, produced by Quincy Jones, for release in the United States.

A few years later, he revolutionized the advertising world, introducing sounds
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MICHEL COLOMBIER Capot Pointu album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Capot Pointu
Exotica 1969
MICHEL COLOMBIER Michel Colombier, Pierre Jansen : Happening album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Michel Colombier, Pierre Jansen : Happening
Jazz Related Soundtracks 1969
MICHEL COLOMBIER Wings album cover 4.00 | 1 ratings
Wings
Third Stream 1971
MICHEL COLOMBIER L'Héritier album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
L'Héritier
Jazz Related Soundtracks 1973
MICHEL COLOMBIER Les Onze Mille Verges (aka Batuccada Erotica aka Les Onze Mille Verges) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Les Onze Mille Verges (aka Batuccada Erotica aka Les Onze Mille Verges)
Jazz Related Soundtracks 1975
MICHEL COLOMBIER Michel Colombier album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Michel Colombier
RnB 1979
MICHEL COLOMBIER Bande Originale Du Film 0.00 | 0 ratings
Bande Originale Du Film "Une Chambre En Ville", Version Intégrale
Jazz Related Soundtracks 1982
MICHEL COLOMBIER Old Fool Back On Earth album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Old Fool Back On Earth
Third Stream 1983
MICHEL COLOMBIER Surrender (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Surrender (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Jazz Related Soundtracks 1987
MICHEL COLOMBIER Pierre Henry - Michel Colombier : Messe Pour Le Temps Present album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Pierre Henry - Michel Colombier : Messe Pour Le Temps Present
Exotica 1997
MICHEL COLOMBIER Diavolo's Catapult - La Comedie Humaine album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Diavolo's Catapult - La Comedie Humaine
Jazz Related Soundtracks 2000
MICHEL COLOMBIER Largo Winch TV Séries : Soundtrack/Musique Originale album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Largo Winch TV Séries : Soundtrack/Musique Originale
Jazz Related Soundtracks 2001
MICHEL COLOMBIER Swept Away (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Swept Away (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Jazz Related Soundtracks 2002
MICHEL COLOMBIER Le Hasard et La Violence (Bande Originale Du Film) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Le Hasard et La Violence (Bande Originale Du Film)
Jazz Related Soundtracks 2017
MICHEL COLOMBIER Colossus: The Forbin Project (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Colossus: The Forbin Project (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Jazz Related Soundtracks 2018

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MICHEL COLOMBIER Dreams album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Dreams
Jazz Related Soundtracks 2002

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MICHEL COLOMBIER Wings

Album · 1971 · Third Stream
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While most listeners may associate or even confuse Michel Colombier's craggy, soulful voice and compositions with Blood, Sweat & Tears and their famous frontman David Clayton-Thomas (or by way of influence The Buckinghams), Colombier was an artist unto himself as well as a more rounded and realized progressive/jazz musician who not only sung-up a storm, but developed some of the best progressive brass-jazzrock ever recorded. And with some very good help from the brilliant songsmith Paul Williams, singer-lyricist Lani Hall, and a fully orchestrated ensemble that brought the power, his 1971 extravaganza 'Wings' is a shamefully ignored LP.

Brimming with theater and stage-set mellodramatics, the '71 release is a fully realized example of the deep possibilities of what progressive popular music had become, Colombier gingerly reaching out with 'Freedom and Fear's dizzied arrangements hitting on myriad forms, setting the bold tone of this LP, merging seamlessly into instrumentals 'Earth' and 'Thalassa'. Paul Williams' fabulous nasal toy-doll vocals lead the moody & slightly Beatlesesque 'Doesn't Anybody Know?', both a product of its era and yet setting itself apart with unexpected darkness and Herbie Hancock piano play circa '71.

'Pourquoi Pas?' and 'Morning is Come Again' sneaks up on us without warning, has surprising frenetic horn-play and deep chorales, one of the best passages here, and 'For Those Who Cannot Hear' is troubled reflection as is Lani Hall's 'We Could be Flying' putting us squarely in the audience of some experimental theater piece that surely closed the same week hosting tiny but appreciative onlookers. Morose 'Emmanuel' and Herb Alpert's 'All in All' say goodbye with some sweet sentiment and a touch of Hair as our nightcap.

One day almost every fan of symphonic jazz/pop will come around to this sort of rarefied time in merged music, and this effort will hit them suddenly, tragically, surprising them with its startling brilliance and with a moment missed but loved all over again.

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