The reissue label (yet another entity legally domiciled in Andorra?) would have you believe that this music should be credited to ‘Michel Legrand & Miles Davis’ but, since Miles only appears on the first four out of the 22 tracks, that seems a bit much.

The 1958 project came about because the 25-year-old Legrand, barely into his songwriting and film-scoring career, had such Stateside success with his easy-listening albums that, when offered the reward of record dates in the US, he elected to do a jazz album. Three sessions – one with Ben Webster and a bunch of top trombones, one with a bunch of top trumpeters, and the famous one with Miles, Trane, Bill Evans and Phil Woods – have unusual arrangements of classics from Waller, Beiderbecke, Reinhardt and Monk. This still sounds good, with the opening ‘Wild Man Blues’ perhaps the standout item in a fascinating programme. Not so the 1962 bonus album of Michel doing Richard Rodgers songs, with bigger bands and very occasional slots for Clark Terry, Paul Gonsalves and returnee Woods, but also with more gimmicky writing and shorter tracks, produced by Quincy Jones.