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Ascenseur pour l'échafaud is an album by the jazz musician Miles Davis. It was recorded at Le Poste Parisien Studio in Paris on December 4 and 5, 1957. The album features the musical cues for the 1958 Louis Malle film Ascenseur pour l'échafaud.
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Available on iTunes : http://bit.ly/18SArJQ Subscribe here : http://bit.ly/1etmIX9 Tracklisting:00:00 - Générique2:53 - L'assassinat de Carala5:04 - Sur l'au...
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- 1.8M
- BnF collection sonore – Jazz & Blues
- Miles Davis in Europe
- Planning The Soundtrack
- Recording The Soundtrack
- The Legacy of The Soundtrack
While Miles pondered how to rejig his working group and bring some stability back to the line-up, he got an invitation to go to Europe as a guest soloist. He didn’t need any persuading to leave America, where black musicians had to fight racism on a daily basis, and were constantly being hassled by the police. He’d been to Paris before, in 1949, wi...
This idea was uppermost in Romano’s mind when he went to pick up Miles. “I told Miles about the project when he arrived at the airport,” he revealed in a 1988 interview. “He seemed at once very interested and we made an appointment for a private screening. Miles had us explain details of the plot to him, the relationship between the various charact...
On Wednesday, December 4, 1957, at 10 pm, Miles and the other four musicians went into Le Post Parisian studios to record the Ascenseur Pour L’Échafaud score. “Jeanne Moreau was there,” remembered Pierre Michelot, “and we all had a drink together. Miles was very relaxed, as if the music he was playing wasn’t important. It was only later that I lear...
Stylistically, the revered Ascenseur Pour L’Échafaud soundtrack album was also significant because it eschewed the language of bebop, with Miles preferring to adopt a modal vocabulary, in which scales, rather than chords, take precedence. Modal jazz would become highly influential during the late 50s and early 60s, as an alternative to the chordall...
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Ascenseur pour l'Échafaud [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] by Miles Davis released in 1958. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards a...
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It’s no slight to French filmmaker Louis Malle that his first feature movie, the film-noir caper L’Ascenseur pour echafaud (titled Elevator To The Gallows in the U.S.) is today as famous for its soundtrack as it is the film itself.
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Sep 8, 2009 · Find release reviews and credits for Ascenseur pour l'Échafaud [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] - Miles Davis on AllMusic - 2009 - Jazz and film noir are perfect bedfellows, as ...
Jun 22, 2021 · Find release reviews and credits for Ascenseur pour l'Échafaud [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] - Miles Davis on AllMusic - 2021
