Miles Davis
Ascenseur pour l'echafaud (1957)
(Lift for the scaffold)
Personnel
Miles Davis – trumpet
Barney Wilen – tenor saxophone
René Urtreger – piano
Pierre Michelot – bass
Kenny Clarke – drums
Tracks Listing
1."Nuit Sur Les Champs-Élysées (take 1)" 2:25
2."Nuit Sur Les Champs-Élysées (take 2)"5:20
3."Nuit Sur Les Champs-Élysées (take 3)"2:47
4."Nuit Sur Les Champs-Élysées (take 4)"2:59
5."Assassinat (take 1)" 2:02
6."Assassinat (take 2)" 2:10
7."Assassinat (take 3)" 2:10
8."Motel"3:56
9."Final (take 1)"3:05
10."Final (take 2)"3:00
11."Final (take 3)"4:04
12."Ascenseur" 1:57
13."Le Petit Bal (take 1)"2:40
14."Le Petit Bal (take 2)"2:53
15."Séquence Voiture (take 1)"2:56
16."Séquence Voiture (take 2)"2:16
17."Générique"2:45
18."L' Assassinat de Carala"2:10
19."Sur L'Autoroute"2:15
20."Julien Dans L'Ascenseur"2:07
21."Florence Sur Les Champs Élysées"2:50
22."Dîner au Motel"3:58
23."Évasion De Julien"0:53
24."Visite Du Vigile"2:00
25."Au Bar du Petit Bac"2:50
26."Chez Le Photographe Du Motel"3:50
recorded at Le Poste Parisien Studio in Paris on December 4 and 5, 1957
Jazz and film noir are perfect bedfellows, as evidenced on the great French film directed by Louis Malle in 1958, Ascenseur Pour L'échafaud. 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 on tenor saxophone, René Urtreger on piano, Pierre Michelot on bass and Kenny Clarke on 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 this recording can stand proudly alongside Duke Ellington's music from Anatomy of a Murder and the soundtrack of Play Misty for Me as great achievements of artistic excellence in fusing dramatic scenes with equally compelling modern jazz music.
3 comments:
https://nitro.download/view/59D6A7F51CB8D75/MD-Ascplechafaud.rar
thank you very much. this can replace a much inferior copy. after dark, tonight... -cheers, a.v.
Thank you very much!!!
One of my favorite noir films. Legend has it that Miles would have parts of the movie screened and he would watch, and start playing along. Improvising to the mood of the scene. This too will replace my old vinyl copy -- It has seen better days.
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