Miles Davis
Ascenseur Pour L'echafaud [Lift To The Scaffold]

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(P) 1958 (2012) Phoenix Gems [249]

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Full recording of this essential soundtrack.


Ascenseur Pour L'echafaud is a 1958 French film directed by Louis Malle. It was released as Lift To The Scaffold in the UK. The film was nothing special, but it did accomplish one thing: it proposed a new ideal of cinematic realism, a new way to look at a woman.

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. [...more...]

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