Audio CD review:
Miles Davis, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly, Yori Bertin, Jean Wall, Elga Andersen, Sylviane Aisenstein, Micheline Bona, Gisčle Grandpré, Jacqueline Staup - Ascenseur Pour L'Echafaud (Lift To The Scaffold): Original Soundtrack

Miles Davis, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly, Yori Bertin, Jean Wall, Elga Andersen, Sylviane Aisenstein, Micheline Bona, Gisčle Grandpré, Jacqueline Staup - Ascenseur Pour L'Echafaud (Lift To The Scaffold): Original Soundtrack

Band: Miles Davis, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly, Yori Bertin, Jean Wall, Elga Andersen, Sylviane Aisenstein, Micheline Bona, Gisčle Grandpré, Jacqueline Staup Title: Ascenseur Pour L'Echafaud (Lift To The Scaffold): Original Soundtrack Rating: Release Date: 25 October, 1990 Media: Audio CD 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

Editoral Review 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. Performed by a Miles Davis-fronted European band for a movie by Louis Malle, this music helped define the sound of film noir. 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 .. You can see a complete list of all Miles Davis, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly, Yori Bertin, Jean Wall, Elga Andersen, Sylviane Aisenstein, Micheline Bona, Gisčle Grandpré, Jacqueline Staup discography, or go back to the Miles Davis, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly, Yori Bertin, Jean Wall, Elga Andersen, Sylviane Aisenstein, Micheline Bona, Gisčle Grandpré, Jacqueline Staup tabs