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B+ [6] 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 .
- December 4 and 5, 1957
- Le Poste Parisien, Paris
- 1958
- Modal jazz: 63–82
Elevator To The Gallows. Buy DVD/Blu-Ray. Listen To Soundtrack. Release Date: Jan 29, 1958. Soundtrack: Ascenseur Pour L’echafaud. With his French quintet of the day—Barney Wilen, tenor saxophone; Rene Urtreger, piano; Pierre Michelot, bass; Kenny Clarke, drums—Miles composed and in the late hours of December 4 and into the next day in a ...
Aug 3, 2016 · Jeanne Moreau and Miles Davis during the recording of the music for Louis Malle’s film “Elevator to the Gallows,” in December, 1957. Photograph by AGIP / RDA / Everett
Elevator to the Gallows (1958) The second disintegration happened in Paris, before Davis even landed. Though Romano had promised “a three-week tour” and “had plans to produce a short film on jazz with Miles himself as the star,” neither eventuated. Romano’s idea is worth noting: film a session with musicians who had just met.
French. Elevator to the Gallows ( French: Ascenseur pour l'échafaud ), also known as Frantic in the US and Lift to the Scaffold in the UK, is a 1958 French crime thriller film directed by Louis Malle, starring Jeanne Moreau and Maurice Ronet as illicit lovers whose murder plot starts to unravel after one of them becomes trapped in an elevator.
- Ascenseur pour l'échafaud, 1956 novel, by Noël Calef
- 29 January 1958
- Jean Thuillier
- Miles Davis
Jan 29, 2018 · Released 60 years ago, Elevator to the Gallows (aka Lift to the Scaffold) had all the grit that the nocturnal streets of 1950s Paris could offer, but Louis Malle’s directorial debut also inverted the classic whodunit structure. The suspense in Edgar Allan Poe’s Murders on the Rue Morgue – published in 1841 and credited as the first ...
Feb 7, 2018 · Feb 7, 2018. Share. W ith his debut feature, the impeccably crafted crime thriller Elevator to the Gallows (1958), Louis Malle announced himself as one of France’s most dynamic young filmmakers and helped pave the way for the imminent French New Wave. One of the most remarkable elements of the film is its jazz score by Miles Davis, which ...
