Artist: Miles Davis
Album: Ascenseur Pour L’Echafaud
Genre: Jazz
Release Date: 1957/2013
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 96 kHz
Duration: 01:14:04
Total Tracks: 26
Total Size: 1,57 GB

Tracklist:

1. Miles Davis – Générique (Bof Ascenseur Pour L’Echafaud) (02:52)
2. Miles Davis – L’Assassinat De Carala (Bof Ascenseur Pour L’Echafaud) (02:11)
3. Miles Davis – Sur L’Autoroute (Bof Ascenseur Pour L’Echafaud) (02:20)
4. Miles Davis – Julien Dans L’Ascenseur (Bof Ascenseur Pour L’Echafaud) (02:13)
5. Miles Davis – Florence Sur Les Champs-Élysées (Bof Ascenseur Pour L’Echafaud) (02:53)
6. Miles Davis – Dîner Au Motel (Bof Ascenseur Pour L’Echafaud) (03:59)
7. Miles Davis – Évasion De Julien (Bof Ascenseur Pour L’Echafaud) (00:55)
8. Miles Davis – Visite Du Vigile (Bof Ascenseur Pour L’Echafaud) (02:05)
9. Miles Davis – Au Bar Du Petit Bac (Bof Ascenseur Pour L’Echafaud) (02:54)
10. Miles Davis – Chez Le Photographe Du Motel (Bof Ascenseur Pour L’Echafaud) (03:59)
11. Miles Davis – Nuit Sur Les Champs-Élysées (Take 1) (02:26)
12. Miles Davis – Nuit Sur Les Champs-Élysées (Take 2) (05:24)
13. Miles Davis – Nuit Sur Les Champs-Élysées (Take 3 – Generique) (02:54)
14. Miles Davis – Nuit Sur Les Champs Elysees Florence Sur Les Champs Elysees (Take 4) (03:01)
15. Miles Davis – Assassinat Visite Du Vigile (Take 1) (02:05)
16. Miles Davis – Assassinat Julien Dans L’Ascenceur (Take 2) (02:13)
17. Miles Davis – Assassinat L’Assassinat De Carala (Take 3) (02:12)
18. Miles Davis – Motel (Diner Au Motel) (03:59)
19. Miles Davis – Final (Take1) (03:07)
20. Miles Davis – Final (Take 2) (03:03)
21. Miles Davis – Final (Take 3) (04:07)
22. Miles Davis – Ascenseur (Evasion De Julien) (02:00)
23. Miles Davis – Le Petit Bal (Take 1) (02:43)
24. Miles Davis – Le Petit Bal (Take 2) (02:57)
25. Miles Davis – Séquence Voiture (Take 1) (03:00)
26. Miles Davis – Sequence Voiture Sur L’Autoroute (Take 2) (02:20)

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Ascenseur pour l’échafaud is an album by 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”.Jazz and film noir are perfect bedfellows, as evidenced by the soundtrack of Louis Malle’s Ascenseur Pour L’Echafaud (Lift to the Scaffold). This dark and seductive tale is wonderfully accentuated by the late-’50s cool or bop music of Miles Davis, played with French jazzmen – bassist Pierre Michelot, pianist René Urtreger, and tenor saxophonist Barney Wilen – and American expatriate drummer Kenny Clarke. This recording evokes the sensual nature of a mysterious chanteuse and the contrasting scurrying rat race lifestyle of the times, when the popularity of the automobile, cigarettes, and the late-night bar scene were central figures. Davis had seen a screening of the movie prior to his making of this music, and knew exactly how to portray the smoky hazed or frantic scenes though sonic imagery, dictated by the trumpeter mainly in D-minor and C-seventh chords. Michelot is as important a figure as the trumpeter because he sets the tone, as on the stalking “Visite du Vigile.” While the mood of the soundtrack is generally dour and somber, the group collectively picks up the pace exponentially on “Diner au Motel.” At times the distinctive Davis trumpet style is echoed into dire straits or death wish motifs, as on “Generique” or “L’Assassinat de Carala,” respectively. Clarke is his usual marvelous self, and listeners should pay close attention to the able Urtreger, by no means a virtuoso but a capable and flexible accompanist. 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.