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Ascenseur Pour L'echafaud (Deluxe Edition) [2CD]
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Ascenseur pour l'échafaud is Miles Davis's moody, improvised soundtrack to Louis Malle's 1958 thriller, here in a limited deluxe 2CD edition housed in a hardcover book.
Recorded in Paris in December 1957, the music was famously created as the musicians watched scenes from the film, responding to the images in real time. Davis was joined by tenor saxophonist Barney Wilen, pianist René Urtreger, bassist Pierre Michelot and drummer Kenny Clarke, and together they produced something hauntingly cool, a landmark in the meeting of jazz and cinema.
"Générique" opens with Davis's muted trumpet hanging in the air like cigarette smoke over the city at night. "Florence sur les Champs-Élysées" follows the film's heroine as she wanders Paris, the melody lonely and searching, while "Sur l'autoroute" picks up the pace with a restless, driving pulse. "Julien dans l'ascenseur" is pure suspense, sparse and unsettling.
This edition pairs the original soundtrack with the surviving session takes, offering a fascinating view of the music taking shape, alongside a hardcover book of liner notes.
For jazz and film lovers alike, it's an essential record, one that hinted at the modal direction Davis would explore next. Few soundtracks have ever captured a mood so completely, or aged so gracefully.
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