Miles Davis: Ascenseur Pour L'Echafaud (180g) auf 2 LPs

»Ascenseur Pour L'Échafaud«, in Deutschland berühmt als »Fahrstuhl zum Schafott«, ist ein legendärer Kriminalfilm, der auch nach 60 Jahren noch zu fesseln vermag. Louis Malles Meisterwerk von 1958, mit schauspielerischen Glanzleistungen von Jeanne Moreau und Maurice Ronet, gehört zu den absoluten Klassikern des Genres.

Ascenseur Pour L'échafaud 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. On December 4 1957, he brought four French Jazzmen (Barney Wilen / tenor saxophone, René Urtreger / piano, Pierre Michelot – bass and Kenny Clarke – drums) to the recording studio "Le Poste Parisien Studio" without having them prepare anything. Davis only gave the musicians a few rudimentary harmonic sequences he had assembled in his hotel room. Eventually "Ascenseur Pour L'échafaud" has become a great achievement of artistic excellence.