Michel Colombier
Michel Jean Pierre Colombier was born in 1939 in Lyon, France, and was trained
in classical music from a young age before turning to jazz in the late 1950s; he
entered the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique de Paris but was
dismissed two years later. He made his professional debut in the early 1960s as
a pianist and arranger, and in 1961 he took a position as pianist-répétiteur for
Michel Magne, who then made him his assistant on film score arrangements,
notably for Gigot. From 1963 he worked with Serge Gainsbourg, and from 1966 with
Barbara, and he later wrote the music...
