Ascenseur Pour L'echafaud [Import]

Product Description
Japanese 24 bit remastered edition of Davis' score to the 1957 Louis Malle thriller Lift To The Scaffold featuring 16 previously unreleased alternate takes. Packaged in a paper sleeve for the initial pressing only.

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Average customer rating: Music 5 Stars. Disc Quality 2. Paris. 1957. Miles Davis. There's a recipe for greatness little known miles davis What a great soundtrack! Dope

Ascenseur Pour L'Echafaud (Lift To The Scaffold): Original Soundtrack Miles Davis Manufacturer: Polygram Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Hard Bop | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Similar Items: Elevator to the Gallows - Criterion Collection Milestones Porgy and Bess A Tribute to Jack Johnson Kind of Blue ASIN: B000004785 Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

1. Nuit Sur Les Champs-Elysees (Take 1)
2. Nuit Sur Les Champs-Elysees (Take 2)
3. Nuit Sur Les Champs-Elysees (Take 3) (Generique)
4. Nuit Sur Les Champs-Elysees (Take 4) (Florence sur les Champs-Elysees)
5. Assassinat (Take 1) (Visite Du Vigile)
6. Assassinat (Take 2) (Julien Dans L'Ascenseur)
7. Assassinat (Take 3) (L'Assassinat De Carala)
8. Motel(Diner Au Motel)
9. Final (Take 1)
10. Final (Take 2)
11. Final (Take 3) (Chez Le Photographe Du Motel)
12. Ascenseur (Evasion De Julien)
13. Le Petit Bal (Take 1)
14. Le Petit Bal (Take 2) (Au Bar Du Petit Bac)
15. Sequence Voiture (Take 1)
16. Sequence Voiture (Take 2) (Sur L'Autoroute)
17. Generique
18. L'Assassinat De Carala
19. Sur L'Autoroute
20. Jullien 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

Amazon.com essential recording

Performed by a Miles Davis-fronted European band for a movie by Louis Malle, this music helped define the sound of film noir. It made viewers think the genre's films had always sounded just so, with slow-walking bass beats and muted, slithering horn lines miming the characters on the screen--and underlining their emotions. The melodies here are brief fragments, sometimes rising up only to disappear and then briefly return. This is Miles playing in the moment, improvising musical impressions as he watched the screen. And what he played managed to capture the era of postwar everywhere, while it offered Davis the freedom to test his on-the-spot compositional skills within a minimalist context. How many other beboppers who worked within the shadow of Charlie Parker could have ever recorded these little gems? --John Szwed

Customer Reviews:

Music 5 Stars. Disc Quality 2........2007-07-15

I love the music but I can only tell because I have only one CD player in my gouse that will play some of the tracks without skips. The CD was damaged during shipping so I advise that you buy it from a store. The music is dark and gives you a clear definition of the word "cool". Buy it from a store.

Paris. 1957. Miles Davis. There's a recipe for greatness.......2007-03-21

In 1957, Louis Malle was 24 years. He was filthy rich. Incredibly handsome. And prodigiously talented --- he had already co-directed and shot Jacques Cousteau's Oscar-winning documentary, "The Silent World." Now he was ready to make his first feature.

He chose an overlooked noir novel about a man who kills his lover's husband, only to get trapped in the elevator while fleeing. His car gets stolen; complications multiply. Meanwhile, we --- and his lover --- wait to see if he'll get free before the police arrive.

Malle co-authored a clever, stylish script. He gave the film an ironic title: "Ascenseur Pour L'Echafaud," or "Elevator to the Gallows." As the lover, he hired Jeanne Moreau, a successful but not incendiary stage actress. And as his cinematographer, he chose the young innovator, Henri Decae.

And then this first-time director got Miles Davis to improvise and record the soundtrack.

Davis was then at the pinnacle. He had revolutionized jazz once already. Now he was turning away from hard-charging bursts of sound to a cooler, modal style that would change the dominant style of American jazz once again.

What could he have possibly seen in Louis Malle?

Fun.

"I was in Paris to play as a guest soloist for a few weeks," Davis later explained. "I met Louis through Juliette Greco. He told me he had always loved my music. I agreed to write the musical score for his film because it was a great learning experience --- I had never written a music score for a film before."

Davis didn't really "write" this one, either. Oh, he said he "looked at the rushes of the film and got musical ideas to write down." But his real genius was in hiring the great American jazz drummer Kenny Clarke and three French musicians and putting them in an environment that mirrored the mood of the movie. As Davis recalled: "Since it was about a murder and was supposed to be a suspense movie, I used this old, gloomy, dark building where I had the musicians play. I thought it would give the music atmosphere, and it did."

The soundtrack was recorded in a single, champagne-fueled session as Moreau and Malle looked on. At one point, a bit of Davis's lip blew into his mouthpiece; he pressed on. There were repeated takes of certain ideas; a number of tracks on the soundtrack are variations of earlier cuts.

No matter. This is one of the greatest jazz soundtracks in film --- some say the greatest. The trumpet couldn't be more evocative: mostly slow and breathy, thoughtful and tender, lonely and okay about it. In a word: cool. The quintessence of cool.

There was much to praise about the film, It used Paris like nothing before it; Malle presaged the New Wave. The final shot was made with a cameraman in a wheelchair; it proved that filmmakers could shoot at night without massive equipment. The film made Jeanne Moreau a movie star. And it launched Louis Malle's brilliant career.

The irony of the Malle-Davis collaboration is that Malle never explored noir again --- indeed, he made it a point to direct only one movie per genre. But the ideas of composition that Davis was working out in this movie soundtrack would come to full bloom a few years later, in his classic Kind of Blue (with John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderly and Bill Evans).

The soundtrack, mesmerizing and evocative at the time, has become more important as the years go by. It's a thrilling artifact and a deep experience for the serious jazz fan. And if you're shallow like me --- if you like music without lyrics at dinner --- you get two CDs for the price of one. The first is about the airy beauty of the music. The second is about guests asking what they're listening to.

In this case, your friends will know who's on that trumpet. But they'll have no idea this soundtrack even exists. Which makes you fractionally as cool as Miles.

little known miles davis.......2007-01-20

This CD is fantastic and hard to find at retail stores. I highly advise any Miles Davis fan buys it.

What a great soundtrack!.......2007-01-19

My son watched this movie a few times. After about the fourth time he said to me, you know why I watch this movie, it's because of the music. It's so incredible that I can't get enough of it. So I purchased the soundtrack for a Christmas present and I have to say it's one of the best CD's I have ever heard. I had no idea who was on this CD because I never watched the movie. When it arrived and I saw it was Miles Davis I said well that's why it's so great. We suggest to whomever is a fan of Miles to purchase this CD and find out for yourself. Peace to all.

Dope.......2007-01-07

This album makes you feel like a private eye. Film noir all the way.

Average customer rating:

Ascenseur Pour l'Échafaud Miles Davis Manufacturer: Fontana ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Hard Bop | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Jazz | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B00004XT1V Release Date: 1958-01-01

Tracks:

1. Nuit sur les Champs-ys [Take 1][#]
2. Nuit sur les Champs-ys [Take 2][#]
3. Nuit sur les Champs-ys [Take 3]
4. Nuit sur les Champs-ys [Take 4]
5. Assassinat [Take 1]
6. Assassinat [Take 2]
7. Assassinat [Take 3]
8. Motel
9. Final [Take 1][#]
10. Final [Take 2][#]
11. Final [Take 3]
12. Ascenseur
13. Petit Bal [Take 1][#]
14. Petit Bal [Take 2]
15. Sence Voiture [Take 1][#]
16. Sence Voiture [Take 2]
17. Grique
18. Assassinat de Carala
19. Sur l'Autoroute
20. Julien Dans l'Ascenseur
21. Florence Sur Les Champs-ys
22. Diner au Motel
23. asion de Julien
24. Visite du Vigile
25. Bar du Petit Bac
26. Chez le Photographe du Motel

Album Description

French edition of Davis' score to the 1957 Louis Malle thriller Lift To The Scaffold. 10 tracks. Elegantly packaged. 2000 release.

Average customer rating:

Ascenseur Pour L'Echafaud Miles Davis ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music General | R&B | Styles | Music General | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music ASIN: B0000562Y0

Average customer rating:

Ascenseur Pour l'Échafaud Miles Davis Manufacturer: Fontana ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Hard Bop | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Jazz | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B000065E96 Release Date: 1958-01-01

Tracks:

1. Nuit sur les Champs-ys [Take 1][#]
2. Nuit sur les Champs-ys [Take 2][#]
3. Nuit sur les Champs-ys [Take 3]
4. Nuit sur les Champs-ys [Take 4]
5. Assassinat [Take 1]
6. Assassinat [Take 2]
7. Assassinat [Take 3]
8. Motel
9. Final [Take 1][#]
10. Final [Take 2][#]
11. Final [Take 3]
12. Ascenseur
13. Petit Bal [Take 1][#]
14. Petit Bal [Take 2]
15. Sence Voiture [Take 1][#]
16. Sence Voiture [Take 2]
17. Grique
18. Assassinat de Carala
19. Sur l'Autoroute
20. Julien Dans l'Ascenseur
21. Florence Sur Les Champs-ys
22. Diner au Motel
23. asion de Julien
24. Visite du Vigile
25. Bar du Petit Bac
26. Chez le Photographe du Motel

Album Description

Japanese 24 bit remastered edition of Davis' score to the 1957 Louis Malle thriller Lift To The Scaffold featuring 16 previously unreleased alternate takes. Packaged in a paper sleeve for the initial pressing only.

Album Details

Japanese Limited Edition in an LP-STYLE Slipcase.

Average customer rating:

Ascenseur Pour l'Échafaud Miles Davis Manufacturer: Japanese Import ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Hard Bop | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Jazz | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B000197JKE Release Date: 2004-03-09

Tracks:

1. Grique
2. Assassinat de Carala
3. Sur l'Autoroute
4. Julien Dans l'Ascenseur
5. Florence Sur Les Champs-ys
6. Diner au Motel
7. asion de Julien
8. Visite du Vigile
9. Bar du Petit Bac
10. Chez le Photographe du Motel
11. Nuit sur les Champs-ys [Take 1][#]
12. Nuit sur les Champs-ys [Take 2][#]
13. Final [Take 1][#]
14. Final [Take 2][#]
15. Petit Bal [Take 1][#]
16. Sence Voiture [Take 1][#]
17. Assassinat [Take 3][#]
18. Diner au Motel [#]
19. Final [Take 1][#]
20. Final [Take 2][#]
21. Final [Take 3][#]
22. asion de Julien [#]
23. Petit Bal [Take 1][#]
24. Petit Bal [Take 2][#]
25. Sequence Voiture [Take 1][#]
26. Sequence Voiture (Sur l'Autoroute) [Take 2][#]

Album Description

Japanese reissue of 1957 soundtrack packaged in a miniature LP sleeve. Remastered 24-bit. Fontana. 2004.

Album Details

Japanese Reissue of the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack from the 1957 Film that was Scored by Miles Davis.

Average customer rating:

Ascenseur Pour l'Échafaud Miles Davis Manufacturer: Japanese Import ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music Hard Bop | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music ASIN: B000BRI3HE Release Date: 2004-03-09

Tracks:

1. Grique
2. Assassinat de Carala
3. Sur l'Autoroute
4. Julien Dans l'Ascenseur
5. Florence Sur Les Champs-ys
6. Diner au Motel
7. asion de Julien
8. Visite du Vigile
9. Bar du Petit Bac
10. Chez le Photographe du Motel
11. Nuit sur les Champs-ys [Take 1][#]
12. Nuit sur les Champs-ys [Take 2][#]
13. Final [Take 1][#]
14. Final [Take 2][#]
15. Petit Bal [Take 1][#]
16. Sence Voiture [Take 1][#]
17. Assassinat [Take 3][#]
18. Diner au Motel [#]
19. Final [Take 1][#]
20. Final [Take 2][#]
21. Final [Take 3][#]
22. asion de Julien [#]
23. Petit Bal [Take 1][#]
24. Petit Bal [Take 2][#]
25. Sequence Voiture [Take 1][#]
26. Sequence Voiture (Sur l'Autoroute) [Take 2][#]

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