The great Michel Legrand the poster for a jazz concert in Geneva-manifolds. The legendary composer-arranger-pianist-singer Franco-American author of countless soundtracks for movies, classic songs, and known particularly as an arranger of music easy listening (in French is called, somewhat pejoratively, elevator music), were to sit in a room in Geneva as part of an intimate concert. The idea seemed appealing a few years ago and, in this case, I contacted by an advertising agency to make the poster. With some minor exceptions, the project was approved and I already saw the cartoon a little here and there in town, curious to know the reaction of people. But for reasons that escape me (the ways of the world of jazz-varieties are deep, they say) and to the dismay of all the great fans of Legrand, the concert did not happen. So, project and caricature were, ipso facto definitively abandoned.
However here is the original project, still in its sketches (within the agency, the preference was rather for an illustration line for a shot in color), before being dressed in the final layout of the poster.
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