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Ascenseur Pour L’échafaud

Miles Davis

SKU: VNL12204LPPMI

Barcode: 8032979642044

10.00 £10.00
  • Genre: Jazz
  • Label: Ermitage
  • Released Date: 10th March 2016
  • Buying Format:
    180g 1LP

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Ascenseur Pour L’échafaud is a 1958 French film directed by Louis Malle. It was released as Lift To The Scaffold in the UK. The film was nothing special, but it did accomplish one thing: it proposed a new ideal of cinematic realism, a new way to look at a woman.

Jean-Paul Rappeneau, a Jazz fan and Malle’s assistant at the time, suggested asking Miles Davis to create the film’s soundtrack. He showed Davis a screening of the movie, and afterwards Miles knew exactly how to portray the smoky hazed or frantic scenes through sonic imagery.

On December 4 1957, he brought four French Jazzmen (Barney Wilen / tenor saxophone, René Urtreger / piano, Pierre Michelot – bass and Kenny Clarke – drums) to the recording studio “Le Poste Parisien Studio” without having them prepare anything. Davis only gave the musicians a few rudimentary harmonic sequences he had assembled in his hotel room. Eventually Ascenseur Pour L’échafaud has become a great achievement of artistic excellence.

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Track Listings

Side A
1. Générique
2. L'assassinat De Carala
3. Sur L'autoroute
4. Julien Dans L'ascenseur
5. Florence Sur Les Champs-Élysees

Side B
1. Dîner Au Motel
2. Évasion De Julien
3. Visite Du Vigile
4. Au Bar Du Petit Bac
5. Chez Le Photographe Du Mot

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