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Richard Galliano, Paolo Fresu and Jan Lundgren: The Windmills of Your Mind

By Michael Ricci
March 12, 2023
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After reading the 200 Jazz Compositions Inspired By Don Quixote announcement and listening to the companion playlist I discovered the many jazz covers of Michel Legrand's "Windmills of Your Mind"—which won an Oscar for best song (The Thomas Crown Affair, 1968). A haunting beauty, this version by Richard Galliano, Paolo Fresu and Jan Lundgren's appears on Mare Nostrum III (ACT Music, 2019).

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