Miles Davis – Ascenseur Pour L’Echafaud

FORMAT – LP Album
LABEL – Jazz Wax Records
GENRE – Jazz

TRACKLIST

A1 – Générique
A2 – L’Assasinat De Carala
A3 – Sur L’Autoroute
A4 – Julien Dans L’Ascenseur
A5 – Florence Sur Les Champs-Elysées
A6 – Dîner Au Motel
A7 – Evasion De Julien
A8 – Visite Du Vigile
A9 – Au Bar Du Petit Bac
A10 – Chez Le Phothographe Du Motel
B1 – On Green Dolphin Street
B2 – Fran-Dance
B3 – Stella By Starlight

The original soundtrack to the 1957 film-noir directed by Louis Malle and a generous collection of unused music and multiple takes from the same Paris recording session. The arrangement gives listeners a chance to compare the work in progress to its final realization, and the difference is dramatic, accomplished with little more than a tasteful application of atmospheric studio reverb.The music itself, assembled over two days (with almost no preparation) by Davis and a quartet of local French jazzers, may be the quintessential film noir score.