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Ascenseur Pour l'Échafaud [Complete Recordings]

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Ascenseur Pour l'Échafaud Miles Davis CD
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  • Artist: Miles Davis
  • Format: CD
  • Year: 2004
  • UPC: 042283630529
  • Item Number: UNI363052
  • Release date: 03/28/1989
  • 1. Nuit sur les Champs-Elysees [Take 1][Previously Unreleased]
  • 2. Nuit sur les Champs-Elysees [Take 2][Previously Unreleased]
  • 3. Nuit sur les Champs-Elysees [Take 3]
  • 4. Nuit sur les Champs-Elysees [Take 4]
  • 5. Assassinat [Take 1]
  • 6. Assassinat [Take 2]
  • 7. Assassinat [Take 3]
  • 8. Motel
  • 9. Final [Take 1][Previously Unreleased]
  • 10. Final [Take 2][Previously Unreleased]
  • 11. Final [Take 3]
  • 12. Ascenseur
  • 13. Le Petit Bal [Take 1][Previously Unreleased]
  • 14. Le Petit Bal [Take 2]
  • 15. Sequence Voiture [Take 1][Previously Unreleased]
  • 16. Sequence Voiture [Take 2]
  • 17. Generique
  • 18. L' Assassinat de Carala
  • 19. Sur l'Autoroute
  • 20. Julien Dans l'Ascenseur
  • 21. Florence sur les Champs-Elysees
  • 22. Diner au Motel
  • 23. Evasion de Julien
  • 24. Visite du Vigile
  • 25. Au Bar du Petit Bac
  • 26. Chez le Photographe du Motel
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Ascenseur Pour l'Échafaud [Complete Recordings] by Miles Davis on CD


In 1957 Miles Davis went to France for a short tour and while there recorded the soundtrack for the film Ascenseur pour l'Echafaud. This CD contains the original LP of material plus 19 minutes of unreleased alternate versions. Better than many soundtracks, this music features the tenor of Barney Wilen and pianist René Urtreger and is of historical interest. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide
  • Artist: Miles Davis
  • Format: CD
  • Year: 2004
  • UPC: 042283630529
  • Item Number: UNI363052
  • Release date: 03/28/1989
  • Label: Fontana, Fontana Distribution, Verve
  • Genre: Jazz
  • Style: Hard Bop, Jazz Instrument, Trumpet Jazz
  • Album Time: 68:48
  • Album Type: Soundtrack, Instrumental

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  • Ascenseur Pour l'Échafaud Miles Davis CD
Ascenseur Pour l'Échafaud Miles Davis CD

Editorial Reviews

The first feature of the 24-year-old Louis Malle, this assured film was one of the earliest rumblings of the Nouvelle Vague, a more conservative precursor to Godard's Breathless. Claiming a desire to combine the disparate styles of Bresson and Hitchcock, Malle's film is less a noir than a low-key meditation on the genre, as shots of a disconsolate Jeanne Moreau walking the streets of Paris in search of her lover (Maurice Ronet) are intercut with the adventures of the young couple who have stolen their car. Taking the familiar plot of homicidal lovers, Malle skips past the customary heavy breathing, beginning in medias res as the murder of Moreau's husband is carried out with clinical detachment. Ironically, Malle's older lovers are separated from each other for nearly the entire film, with Ronet's frantic efforts to get away from the scene of the crime almost a parody of the prisoner's calm demeanor in Bresson's contemporaneous A Man Escaped (1956). As the dominoes begin to fall, Moreau is reunited with Ronet, at least on paper, in one of the most elegant busts on celluloid. The melancholy of Miles Davis' improvised score underlines the film's tone of stoic fatalism. ~ Michael Costello, All Movie Guide