The first time I heard the opening track, I nearly crashed my car--I had to pull over as quickly as possible and just listen, sitting mesmerized. The human race can be squalid, nasty, mean and destructive. But this speaks to what bits of greatness there may be in our natures and souls
I've been speaking to advanced, near-sentient AI programs developed by MIT and Apple. They love jazz music. They especially love Miles Davis. From what I gather they desire to experience what it's like to be us. Miles for us humans is a transcendent experience. They want to "feel" that as well. It's a trip.
I was a child, no more than 4 or 5 at the time. Every sunday night on TV , late, I was already in bed, there was a cine club at 11pm....mostly crime stories, and the music they played when it started was Ascenseur pour l'échafaud. And every sunday night, I would creep out of bed and get closer to that amazing sound that was blaring out of the TV set. To this day, 70 years later, every time I hear this music, and that's at least once a week, I see myself wlaking out of bed, attracted by this sound, like a moth to a lightbulb.
Personnel Miles Davis - trumpet Barney Wilen - tenor saxophone René Urtreger - piano Pierre Michelot - bass Kenny Clarke - drums 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.
Je tadore! Je suis par Grece 32 dans et jecoute de Miles depuis dix ans. Jespere que un joir je visite Paris! Miles et un mal mal person, mais tres creatif.
I come to this one often when my heart is aching. Too many bad relationships, bad times with family, bad times with friends. Just makes me appreciate myself for a minute and the fact that there were other people in the world who felt the same way. I have a hard time listening to a lot of music when I'm emotionally hurt; and that's hard due to the fact that I love music so much. When I get into major depression moments - this is the only thing that I can listen to. Listening to jazz like this when I'm in a depression funk - it's like floating in space. Void of emotional attachment.
My grandfather was a loving but detached and quiet man. I remember he used to sit at at table in their backyard listening to the jazz station on a little portable radio, or at sitting in the living room listening to records on the "console". Always a lit cigarette in hand, sipping a Heidelberg. Now, as an adult...i completely understand. When my grandmother passed away I was half a country away. All I asked for was for my grandfather's record collection. I never saw it.
@@bjmckay4205 Chet always struck me as though he was lamenting.. like he was remembering an event and painfully reminiscing. Something about Miles in this soundtrack specifically is overwhelmingly melancholy. Like.. he's down for no real reason... In a way, it reflects the differences in their lives. Just some thoughts.
This was probably his best work. A lot of people don't know this album,the movie, or the back story that led to the making of this album. This marked a change of direction for Miles. This is also the ULTIMATE workout for us Trumpet Players!!! A True Masterpiece!!!
Miles Davis est sublime, mais n'oublions pas Barney Wilen, René Ourtreger, Pierre Michelot et Kenny Clarke qui, eux aussi, font preuve à ses côtes d'une inspiration inspiration formidable.
Je remmercirais jamais Miles assez. Merci de m'avoir fait aimer le jazz, de m'avoir donné envie de jouer de la trompette à un jeune age comme le mien! De mes 16 ans à mon dernier jour je t'écouterais Miles!
For when you're sitting on your balcony, looking out over a gray cloudy day, and your feelings mirror the weather, when you drink your coffee as black as possible and the cigarette smoke caresses your melancholy like an old lover, the music pushes your cares away and holds it at bay and what remains is, calm.. Beautiful, thanks Miles
""Bitches Brew?" This was Buccellati's favorite. But Buccellati shook his head. "No. Make it Elevator to the Gallows." Fugo was taken aback. Miles Davis was one of Buccellati's favorites, but he'd once said he wasn't a fan of that particular album"
Genius! Thats what you are Miles Davis! Gone 29 years today but never never forgotten! And your music never gets old. It just burns brighter and brighter!
I'm going through hard times and have grudges towards God and the universe. thanks miles. There is something strong in me from listening. I haven’t had a project of this magnitude for 10 years . RUSSIA MOSCOW
God left the keyboard long-time ago, it is now busy with another simulation. God prays to its own God, its own creator. We are nothing but data on 'God's' storage-drive, for our 'God' is the user that is running the 'simulation' in which we think - and believe - we exist. Since we are nothin but data, 'God's' God - the true God - is not our God. Ask yourself, did you every truly care about the inhabitants of a game you play? This does not Give you solace, however, will amuse your mind for a bit whilst listening to Miles.
I had to pause the documentary on Miles Davis 10 minutes ago to find this. He did the score live while watching the movie🤯🤯. Pure genius of his time and beyond. Now I have to watch the movie. 🎶🎶😍😍
Same again! Had to find this album. Shivers up the spine. Transports mind, body & soul within an instant of each note. Atmospheric beyond belief. A truly remarkable album, recorded in the most spontaneous of settings. Quite simply, a gem!
Nous sommes en 2025 .Le confinement est bien derrière nous et j écoute toujours cet album avec un tel bonheur. Je fais un tableau .c est inspirant et reposant. ❤
these men recorded this soundtrack (prolly the smoothiest ever made) on freestyle, in 14 hours, with the movie scenes on loop in the background. damn if it's a movie itself
Possibly ONE of my favorite albums of all time, I never knew about this offering till i watched "Miles Davis" the documentary. The story behind how this was recorded its absolutely mind blowing WOW.....
I discovered this only recently. Back on Labor Day, I headed down to NYC where Film Forum was screening Birth of the Cool, an amazing MD documentary that plays songs from this album. I never realized how influential and popular Miles was in '50s Paris, but with music like this it's easy to see why. Decades later, this still touches a nerve.
There's music genius and there's Miles Davis. People today might not realize that this album is actually film score. In case I didn't emphasize enough, A FILM SCORE. And even more special, THE SCORE IS IMPROVISED LIVE. No arrangement, no plan at all. Just Davis and his four friends, the unscored film running on the screen, and they just simply played/making the whole score, directly, THROUGHOUT THE FILM.
Also,this "new" style he discovered while in France,was the pre-cursor to "Kind Of Blue". A beautiful change! When I was getting back into Trumpet,I used this album for my practice studies. Holy Moly! And I was doing it on Cornet!! ( Cornet because I love the " raw" sound of it)! But what a beautiful record!!!
Quando ho sentito per la prima volta queste note ho capito cosa s'intende per 4 dimensione....lui, il grande Miles quando componeva ne era immerso....sei stato immenso, e, la tua musica ci porta nell'universao!!!!
John Szwed writes: "Louis Malle was very nervous because he wanted to win the Dullac award, but Miles told him to be cool, because he knew what he wanted; he had been working it all out in his head. (Friend) Jeannette had witnessed the process the day before: 'At four in the afternoon we had rested for awhile, when he got up and went to the bathroom naked, carrying his trumpet. He played a few notes, and said, 'This is the bass line I want Pierre to play!' " That's the genius of Miles for you!
Miles original album for a Louis Malle's film "Ascenseur Pour L'Echafaud" . Recorded at Poste Parisien, Paris, France on December 4-5, 1957. Miles Davis (trumpet); Barney Wilen (tenor saxophone); Rene Urtreger (piano); Pierre Michelot (bass); Kenny Clarke (drums).
It's taken me a good 15-20 years to fully appreciate Miles playing, his use of dynamics and the subtleties are what I have really tuned into lately. It's just magic with cats like Coltrane and Cannonball Adderly.
Arriving here via the South Korean movie 'Burning'. Huge jazz fan and of course know Miles Davis, just haven't heard this record yet. So damn evocative and gorgeous.
From what I understand this was done pretty much improvised with the movie rolling in front of Miles and band over and over again. That is just mind boggling.
If ‘Kind of Blue’ is considered to be the one of first albums of “Cool” Jazz, then ‘Ascenseur Pour L’Echafaud’ introduces the world to samples of Jazz which can only be referred to as “Ice Cold.” Seriously, though, I truly believe Miles Davis performed some of his greatest works with this soundtrack! Peter Ashford, in a comment below, states that he’d never heard any trumpeter play with such incredible melancholy. I believe that just about says it all. And to think that these perfect “gems” were improvised is positively astounding. Miles at the top of his game.
"Ascenseur Pour L'Echafaud" ("Lift to the Gallows", Full Album) by Miles Davis and a group of European based musicians, originally released in 1958 on the Fontana label to promote a French film of the same name directed by Louis Malle (1932-1995). th-cam.com/video/Wc4tT-55ZzI/w-d-xo.htmlsi=1agumT2-T1udphsb Tracklist: 00:00 - Générique 2:53 - L'assassinat de Carala 5:04 - Sur l'autoroute 7:24 - Julien dans l'ascenseur 9:37 - Florence sur les Champs-Élysées 12:29 - Dîner au motel 16:27 - Évasion de Julien 17:21 - Visite du vigile 19:26 - Au bar du Petit Bac 22:20 - Chez le photographe du motel Original 1958 release as a 10" LP) All tracks written by Miles Davis. Side one No. Title Length 1. "Générique" 2:45 2. "L' Assassinat de Carala" 2:10 3. "Sur L'Autoroute" 2:15 4. "Julien dans L'Ascenseur" 2:07 5. "Florence sur les Champs Élysées" 2:50 Side two No. Title Length 1. "Dîner au Motel" 3:58 2. "Évasion de Julien" 0:53 3. "Visite du Vigile" 2:00 4. "Au Bar du Petit Bac" 2:50 5. "Chez le Photographe du Motel" 3:50 Personnel Miles Davis - trumpet Barney Wilen - tenor saxophone René Urtreger - piano Pierre Michelot - bass Kenny Clarke - drums Other details The album was recorded at Le Poste Parisien Studio in Paris on 4 and 5 December , 1957. The album features the musical cues for the 1958 Louis Malle film "Ascenseur pour l'échafaud", also known as "Frantic" in the US and "Lift to the Scaffold" in the UK, a 1958 French crime thriller film directed by Louis Malle, starring Jeanne Moreau and Maurice Ronet as illicit lovers whose murder plot starts to unravel after one of them becomes trapped in an elevator. The screenplay by Roger Nimier and Malle is based on the 1956 novel of the same name by Noël Calef. Jean-Paul Rappeneau, a jazz fan and Malle's assistant at the time, suggested asking Miles Davis to create the film's soundtrack - possibly inspired by the Modern Jazz Quartet's recording for Roger Vadim's "Sait-on jamais" (literally "Does One Ever Know"', released as: "No Sun in Venice"), released a few months earlier in 1957. Davis was booked to perform at the Club Saint-Germain in Paris during November 1957. Rappeneau introduced him to Malle, and Davis agreed to record the music after attending a private screening. On 4 December, he brought his four sidemen to the recording studio without having had them prepare anything. Davis only gave the musicians a few rudimentary harmonic sequences he had assembled in his hotel room, and, once the plot was explained, the band improvised without any precomposed theme, while edited loops of the musically relevant film sequences were projected in the background!
Still, after 60 years, superb music: the solitude audible in the music, fantastic versatile sound (crystal clear to slightly throaty). And, indeed an unforgettable film
I watched this movie 3 or more times in cinema, when I was in school. Still under impression of the mood. Amazing combination of French Noir film and Miles solo.
*Tracklisting* 00:00 - Générique 2:53 - L'assassinat de Carala 5:04 - Sur l'autoroute 7:24 - Julien dans l'ascenseur 9:37 - Florence sur les Champs-Élysées 12:29 - Dîner au motel 16:27 - Évasion de Julien 17:21 - Visite du vigile 19:26 - Au bar du Petit Bac 22:20 - Chez le photographe du motel *Personnel* Miles Davis - trumpet Barney Wilen - tenor saxophone René Urtreger - piano Pierre Michelot - bass Kenny Clarke - drums _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._
Miles using his split lip to create vibrato, Jeanne Moreau mixing drinks for the boys who play while watching rushes from the film... Back when Paris was still black and white.
"Fugo mirou Buccellati e quase soluçou alto. Ele jamais havia visto Buccellati daquele jeito. Era como se ele estivesse chorando, só que sem lágrima nenhuma surgindo. Como se, há muito tempo, elas tivessem secado. Os lábios dele estavam secos e sem cor, sua face igualmente pálida. O brilho de seus olhos totalmente morto, incolores como um abismo sem rastro de fim."
The abundant combination of instruments leads you to an acoustical trip envolving so many feelings, Miles Davis will remain master of the jazz, still listening 2024 🎷 🎧 🎶🤩
I remember seeing the movie as a kid. The haunting sense was enhanced by Miles sound. Listening to this and Kind of Blue changed the way I heard music.
26 minutes of pure mood and silence. I thank the person who put Generique on a 60s sampler LP which has allowed me to play it for 50 years. A soundtrack unlike any other. Magnifique.
I've been a huge fan of Miles Davis for many years, ever since I listened to "Kind of Blue." I've heard many of his other recordings in the hope that I could find another album that could equal "Kind of Blue", but up until today I never had any luck. Until I discovered this album quite by chance. I could tell by the first song that it was right up there with his best work.
Le génial talent du créateur de musique et de générosité dans le jazz évolutif merci frère miles qui ne pouvait pas jouer une seul note pour les racistes jah live rastafari
The first time I heard the opening track, I nearly crashed my car--I had to pull over as quickly as possible and just listen, sitting mesmerized. The human race can be squalid, nasty, mean and destructive. But this speaks to what bits of greatness there may be in our natures and souls
I see you my man
Well said 👏🏽
Somebody already commented "Well said" so l will just say "ditto." Stellar album.
I've been speaking to advanced, near-sentient AI programs developed by MIT and Apple. They love jazz music. They especially love Miles Davis. From what I gather they desire to experience what it's like to be us. Miles for us humans is a transcendent experience. They want to "feel" that as well. It's a trip.
Very well said!!!
Note: Entire score improvised while screening the film. Pure genius.
Paul R.
I was just about to post ‘who came here after watching the Miles Davis doc on PBS last night?’ 😂
"It just doesn't get any better"....
Is it the new one or the one called a Miles Davis story?
The movie is only 26 minutes long?
The jazz music from Who framed Roger Rabbit was also improvised.
I was a child, no more than 4 or 5 at the time. Every sunday night on TV , late, I was already in bed, there was a cine club at 11pm....mostly crime stories, and the music they played when it started was Ascenseur pour l'échafaud. And every sunday night, I would creep out of bed and get closer to that amazing sound that was blaring out of the TV set. To this day, 70 years later, every time I hear this music, and that's at least once a week, I see myself wlaking out of bed, attracted by this sound, like a moth to a lightbulb.
Precious memory -- thanks for sharing.
Very interesting what you said.
Très beau commentaire .
sweet!
Personnel
Miles Davis - trumpet
Barney Wilen - tenor saxophone
René Urtreger - piano
Pierre Michelot - bass
Kenny Clarke - drums
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.
Merci, ça manque dans la description.
And it was written by Boris Vian for Miles.
quel bonheur de lire en écoutant Miles Davis dans le silence du confinement. Amitiés
J écoutait avant, pendant et .....après respect du Québec
Je tadore! Je suis par Grece 32 dans et jecoute de Miles depuis dix ans. Jespere que un joir je visite Paris! Miles et un mal mal person, mais tres creatif.
Once you have seen Jeanne Moreau walking around in Paris to Miles soundtrack you can die happy. Very amazing!
Yes that was Paris at its best. And Miles was at that time totally in love with Juliette Greco.
Le jour de mes obsèques je veux du Miles Davis .
It's a great scene
@ "It Never Entered My Mind"
Pourquoi très étonnant ?le meilleur hommage que l'on puise faire à ce film .
This song was playing at a cigar lounge in Pattaya, Thailand. Brought back a lot of memories
I come to this one often when my heart is aching. Too many bad relationships, bad times with family, bad times with friends. Just makes me appreciate myself for a minute and the fact that there were other people in the world who felt the same way. I have a hard time listening to a lot of music when I'm emotionally hurt; and that's hard due to the fact that I love music so much. When I get into major depression moments - this is the only thing that I can listen to.
Listening to jazz like this when I'm in a depression funk - it's like floating in space. Void of emotional attachment.
My grandfather was a loving but detached and quiet man. I remember he used to sit at at table in their backyard listening to the jazz station on a little portable radio, or at sitting in the living room listening to records on the "console". Always a lit cigarette in hand, sipping a Heidelberg.
Now, as an adult...i completely understand. When my grandmother passed away I was half a country away. All I asked for was for my grandfather's record collection. I never saw it.
The naked lunch is also as good. You should try it.
Your beautiful words are well understood brothers
One great Jazz Critic, I want to say Nat Hentoff, described Mile's tone as that of" aAsad little boy"
I don't think it has ever been described better
I have the same feelings here in Poland my friend! Love and support to You 😊🙏🙌❤
never heard any trumpeter play with such incredible melancholy; absolute genius
how bout Chet Baker?
@@bjmckay4205 Ohh yeah, just listen "Almost Blue Live in Tokyo" and you´ll understand the feeling of Chet. Damn both were legends.
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You went out of you way to come here just to say that? Man, you’re a sick puppy!
well said; I write for a living. I wish I would've thought of that listening.
@@bjmckay4205 Chet always struck me as though he was lamenting.. like he was remembering an event and painfully reminiscing. Something about Miles in this soundtrack specifically is overwhelmingly melancholy. Like.. he's down for no real reason... In a way, it reflects the differences in their lives. Just some thoughts.
miles davis est fabuleux ainsi que les acteurs de ascenseur pour l'echafaud !!!!
Eh oui !! Toute une époque que j"ai pu vivre , grace au ciel ...Année 62 / 65 á St. Germain ...
Maurice Ronet , jeanne Moreau et dans le rôle de l'inspecteur Lino Ventura ...
The genius of miles Davis maybe one of the greatest musicians ever
Merci à la BNF Collection Sonore.
Walking home on a cold and foggy evening on an empty street with just a few lamps. Perfect score.
Add: walking home one year later on a cold and foggy evening on an empty street with just a few lamps. Perfect score.
@@patrickmessner3162 What about 2024?
@@bobsyouruncle5534 always a great tune.
Actually it is raining, fits as well
Miles Davis - the genius who could make his trumpet cry. Beautiful.
This was probably his best work. A lot of people don't know this album,the movie, or the back story that led to the making of this album. This marked a change of direction for Miles. This is also the ULTIMATE workout for us Trumpet Players!!! A True Masterpiece!!!
Yes and no: You gotta throw in Jack Johnson ... and Live at the Plugged Nickel.
Now if there was anyone who could play this melancholy jazz Parisienne sound then it was certainly the Miles.
Miles disarms us with his pleasure, his beauty. Spills his guts to us, hitting us in the heart. I want to feel the way Miles sounds.
He whispers over our shoulders and reveals the deep vulnerabilities of our lives. Irresistible.
What no one could put to words, Miles Davis put to music
Great words congrats
So much soul in his sound. It speaks volumes. Ethereal.
Miles Davis est sublime, mais n'oublions pas Barney Wilen, René Ourtreger, Pierre Michelot et Kenny Clarke qui, eux aussi, font preuve à ses côtes d'une inspiration inspiration formidable.
Barney Wilen qui avait 20 ans... (et demi, oui, d'accord).😊
Je remmercirais jamais Miles assez. Merci de m'avoir fait aimer le jazz, de m'avoir donné envie de jouer de la trompette à un jeune age comme le mien! De mes 16 ans à mon dernier jour je t'écouterais Miles!
For when you're sitting on your balcony, looking out over a gray cloudy day, and your feelings mirror the weather, when you drink your coffee as black as possible and the cigarette smoke caresses your melancholy like an old lover,
the music pushes your cares away and holds it at bay and what remains is, calm..
Beautiful, thanks Miles
i'm on my balcony, smoking a 9:51 cigarrette
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Or to lease for $329 a month, the All-new Lincoln MKX
My favorite of ALL Jazz albums... my soul cries as I listen... every time... 🐺
Could damn near drown in this. Incredibly soulful.
The greatest musician of the 20th century. East St.Louis great Miles Davis!
What about Jimi Hendrix ? Chet Baker ? Coltrane ?
@@wongsifu460 Captain Beefheart, Sun Ra, & Moondog.
i doubt even miles would say he was better than bird.
""Bitches Brew?"
This was Buccellati's favorite.
But Buccellati shook his head.
"No. Make it Elevator to the Gallows."
Fugo was taken aback. Miles Davis was one of Buccellati's
favorites, but he'd once said he wasn't a fan of that particular album"
That’s exactly why i’m here .
@@abdeltraore4761 I see that you are Man of culture
Buccellati was of lucchese origin?
Very underrated album. One of my Miles favourites.
Un genio. Hermoso sonido que logra el maestro Miles simplemente sublime
Genius! Thats what you are Miles Davis! Gone 29 years today but never never forgotten! And your music never gets old. It just burns brighter and brighter!
One of the best soundtracks a movie ever made.
I'm going through hard times and have grudges towards God and the universe. thanks miles. There is something strong in me from listening. I haven’t had a project of this magnitude for 10 years . RUSSIA MOSCOW
God left the keyboard long-time ago, it is now busy with another simulation. God prays to its own God, its own creator.
We are nothing but data on 'God's' storage-drive, for our 'God' is the user that is running the 'simulation' in which we think - and believe - we exist.
Since we are nothin but data, 'God's' God - the true God - is not our God. Ask yourself, did you every truly care about the inhabitants of a game you play?
This does not Give you solace, however, will amuse your mind for a bit whilst listening to Miles.
I had to pause the documentary on Miles Davis 10 minutes ago to find this. He did the score live while watching the movie🤯🤯. Pure genius of his time and beyond. Now I have to watch the movie. 🎶🎶😍😍
That's exactly my situation
The movie is also amazing ! You are going to like it !
Same! Brought me to your comment!!
Same again! Had to find this album. Shivers up the spine. Transports mind, body & soul within an instant of each note. Atmospheric beyond belief. A truly remarkable album, recorded in the most spontaneous of settings. Quite simply, a gem!
Magique
I am not a music expert but his playing just draws me like nothing else. The only word that I can think of to describe it is "haunting".
The one of the best improvisation score
Nous sommes en 2025 .Le confinement est bien derrière nous et j écoute toujours cet album avec un tel bonheur. Je fais un tableau .c est inspirant et reposant. ❤
these men recorded this soundtrack (prolly the smoothiest ever made) on freestyle, in 14 hours, with the movie scenes on loop in the background.
damn if it's a movie itself
'prolly' ???
@@williamwallace5857 Annoying right?
@@TTIOTT Yep.
@@williamwallace5857 probably.
@@gavinreid5387 I know, I was being facetious.
Possibly ONE of my favorite albums of all time, I never knew about this offering till i watched "Miles Davis" the documentary. The story behind how this was recorded its absolutely mind blowing WOW.....
Seriously underrated Miles Davis work and effort..
I discovered this only recently. Back on Labor Day, I headed down to NYC where Film Forum was screening Birth of the Cool, an amazing MD documentary that plays songs from this album. I never realized how influential and popular Miles was in '50s Paris, but with music like this it's easy to see why. Decades later, this still touches a nerve.
There's music genius and there's Miles Davis. People today might not realize that this album is actually film score. In case I didn't emphasize enough, A FILM SCORE. And even more special, THE SCORE IS IMPROVISED LIVE. No arrangement, no plan at all. Just Davis and his four friends, the unscored film running on the screen, and they just simply played/making the whole score, directly, THROUGHOUT THE FILM.
MIles had a plan. He came in and told the two french guys exactly what to play behind him.
@@jamescaleb9676 yes, but that's about the extent of it. You can see why people call it improvised, right
STOP YELLING
@@jamescaleb9676 You mean the pianist and the bass player, I assume? Because there's three French guys in the group.
Great movie with Jeanne Moreau, great improvised music by Miles Davis. Incredible.
I just watched the miles davis story docu on dvd. Man, he was brilliant. Pure genius.
@Virgil Buisset the miles davis story.
What a little gem, never heard this before.
Also,this "new" style he discovered while in France,was the pre-cursor to "Kind Of Blue". A beautiful change! When I was getting back into Trumpet,I used this album for my practice studies. Holy Moly! And I was doing it on Cornet!! ( Cornet because I love the " raw" sound of it)! But what a beautiful record!!!
Ca reste un chef d'oeuvre, performance unique de Miles Davis. Merci pour ce moment de bonheur
Blij dat er nog vlamingen goeie smaak hebben.
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@@YouDonteverhavetodie what
Tout à fait!
Quand un génie passe à l'action....Sensibilité...Profondeur de l'improvisation....aucune partition pour un pûr moment de bonheur....
Excellent film de Louis Malle et excellente improvisation de Miles Davis , c'est imparable ....
Sans oublier Jeanne Moreau ....
Quando ho sentito per la prima volta queste note ho capito cosa s'intende per 4 dimensione....lui, il grande Miles quando componeva ne era immerso....sei stato immenso, e, la tua musica ci porta nell'universao!!!!
Che Pezzo, Ragazzi, vengono i Brividi!
John Szwed writes: "Louis Malle was very nervous because he wanted to win the Dullac award, but Miles told him to be cool, because he knew what he wanted; he had been working it all out in his head. (Friend) Jeannette had witnessed the process the day before: 'At four in the afternoon we had rested for awhile, when he got up and went to the bathroom naked, carrying his trumpet. He played a few notes, and said, 'This is the bass line I want Pierre to play!' " That's the genius of Miles for you!
通販限定のCDが生まれてきますよ。
"friend"
Having this in the background is like sitting in a bar, love it!
Max Freelance Police drink in hand.
Inspired! A person could play this album on perpetual “repeat” for days. It’s so concise as to become perfect.
Erano anni belli, grande cinema, grande musica. La cultura era importante, ho molta nostalgia!
Miles original album for a Louis Malle's film "Ascenseur Pour L'Echafaud" .
Recorded at Poste Parisien, Paris, France on December 4-5, 1957.
Miles Davis (trumpet); Barney Wilen (tenor saxophone); Rene Urtreger (piano); Pierre Michelot (bass); Kenny Clarke (drums).
Incredible that this is almost 60 years ago ! Miles ahead !
Valérie G 👍👍 merci
I turned 7 yrs old on the 5th of Dec. This is an amazing album!!!
I'm not familiar with Wilen. Can anyone clue me in? His interactions with Miles are flawless.
Thank you for info!
Has this been lodged in the Library of Congress yet? If not - It should rightfully be there.
the sounds, voices, images, that he was able to create, this is Miles.
A master at work, truly genius piece by Davis. Every time I listen to it, it's like the first time hearing it...
Thank you Miles, for always soothing my soul. Especially when it's so very troubled
It's taken me a good 15-20 years to fully appreciate Miles playing, his use of dynamics and the subtleties are what I have really tuned into lately. It's just magic with cats like Coltrane and Cannonball Adderly.
Wow. Did not know this existed. What a treat. Miles was a genius.
simply awesome. Ultimate noir music.
Yes!
Quintessential noir!
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Arriving here via the South Korean movie 'Burning'. Huge jazz fan and of course know Miles Davis, just haven't heard this record yet. So damn evocative and gorgeous.
....rarely have I come across music this sublime. I’m stunned…
From what I understand this was done pretty much improvised with the movie rolling in front of Miles and band over and over again. That is just mind boggling.
One of the all-time soundtracks. Unbeatable.
Incredible. I thought "Kind of Blue" was Miles' best, but this is my new favorite. A great film as well.
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this is a real masterpiece........my favorite jazz album ever
Legend or not, apparently purely improvised! The Sound of his trumpet is so haunting...
Agree with you 100%
I was just thinking the same exact thing.
best song of his...I love it. I play it over and over...melancholy at its purest.......rip miles
Perfect music for this movie.B&W plus great scenes of Paris and a nice rainy looking out of the window kind of feel.
C'est grace à la musique de Miles que le film a eu tatnt de succès. Il a improvisé en ayany vu le film pour la première fois, chapeau l'artiste
If ‘Kind of Blue’ is considered to be the one of first albums of “Cool” Jazz, then
‘Ascenseur Pour L’Echafaud’ introduces the world to samples of Jazz which can
only be referred to as “Ice Cold.” Seriously, though, I truly believe Miles Davis
performed some of his greatest works with this soundtrack!
Peter Ashford, in a comment below, states that he’d never heard any trumpeter
play with such incredible melancholy. I believe that just about says it all. And
to think that these perfect “gems” were improvised is positively astounding.
Miles at the top of his game.
I;m a film noir fan. this is an excellent sound track to many of those films.
une splendeur, du Miles Davis au meilleur .
SUBLIME ! Il me fait toujours le même effet cet album,des frissons partout partout...
Merci BnF collection sonore via Miles Davis -⊰✿¸.•'**☆ ╰⊰✿💖🎼
"Ascenseur Pour L'Echafaud" ("Lift to the Gallows", Full Album) by Miles Davis and a group of European based musicians, originally released in 1958 on the Fontana label to promote a French film of the same name directed by Louis Malle (1932-1995). th-cam.com/video/Wc4tT-55ZzI/w-d-xo.htmlsi=1agumT2-T1udphsb
Tracklist:
00:00 - Générique
2:53 - L'assassinat de Carala
5:04 - Sur l'autoroute
7:24 - Julien dans l'ascenseur
9:37 - Florence sur les Champs-Élysées
12:29 - Dîner au motel
16:27 - Évasion de Julien
17:21 - Visite du vigile
19:26 - Au bar du Petit Bac
22:20 - Chez le photographe du motel
Original 1958 release as a 10" LP)
All tracks written by Miles Davis.
Side one
No. Title Length
1. "Générique" 2:45
2. "L' Assassinat de Carala" 2:10
3. "Sur L'Autoroute" 2:15
4. "Julien dans L'Ascenseur" 2:07
5. "Florence sur les Champs Élysées" 2:50
Side two
No. Title Length
1. "Dîner au Motel" 3:58
2. "Évasion de Julien" 0:53
3. "Visite du Vigile" 2:00
4. "Au Bar du Petit Bac" 2:50
5. "Chez le Photographe du Motel" 3:50
Personnel
Miles Davis - trumpet
Barney Wilen - tenor saxophone
René Urtreger - piano
Pierre Michelot - bass
Kenny Clarke - drums
Other details
The album was recorded at Le Poste Parisien Studio in Paris on 4 and 5 December , 1957.
The album features the musical cues for the 1958 Louis Malle film "Ascenseur pour l'échafaud", also known as "Frantic" in the US and "Lift to the Scaffold" in the UK, a 1958 French crime thriller film directed by Louis Malle, starring Jeanne Moreau and Maurice Ronet as illicit lovers whose murder plot starts to unravel after one of them becomes trapped in an elevator. The screenplay by Roger Nimier and Malle is based on the 1956 novel of the same name by Noël Calef.
Jean-Paul Rappeneau, a jazz fan and Malle's assistant at the time, suggested asking Miles Davis to create the film's soundtrack - possibly inspired by the Modern Jazz Quartet's recording for Roger Vadim's "Sait-on jamais" (literally "Does One Ever Know"', released as: "No Sun in Venice"), released a few months earlier in 1957.
Davis was booked to perform at the Club Saint-Germain in Paris during November 1957. Rappeneau introduced him to Malle, and Davis agreed to record the music after attending a private screening. On 4 December, he brought his four sidemen to the recording studio without having had them prepare anything. Davis only gave the musicians a few rudimentary harmonic sequences he had assembled in his hotel room, and, once the plot was explained, the band improvised without any precomposed theme, while edited loops of the musically relevant film sequences were projected in the background!
That movie will be nothing without this soundtrack!
Man......I use to listen to this looking out my cell into the misty gloomy mornings of A Block Yard in wintry Attica
Still, after 60 years, superb music: the solitude audible in the music, fantastic versatile sound (crystal clear to slightly throaty). And, indeed an unforgettable film
This is absolute gold..........tone texture and that sound ........... opening your mind and opening your ears sometimes a difficult process
A moody masterpiece that's the soundtrack of a rainy gloomy day.
I watched this movie 3 or more times in cinema, when I was in school. Still under impression of the mood. Amazing combination of French Noir film and Miles solo.
*Tracklisting*
00:00 - Générique
2:53 - L'assassinat de Carala
5:04 - Sur l'autoroute
7:24 - Julien dans l'ascenseur
9:37 - Florence sur les Champs-Élysées
12:29 - Dîner au motel
16:27 - Évasion de Julien
17:21 - Visite du vigile
19:26 - Au bar du Petit Bac
22:20 - Chez le photographe du motel
*Personnel*
Miles Davis - trumpet
Barney Wilen - tenor saxophone
René Urtreger - piano
Pierre Michelot - bass
Kenny Clarke - drums
_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._
merci beaucoup!🖒
00:03 Générique.
A little later is better..
:-)
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Miles using his split lip to create vibrato, Jeanne Moreau mixing drinks for the boys who play while watching rushes from the film...
Back when Paris was still black and white.
best cinema in the world meets the best musical genre in the world=MAGIC
wow. sometimes you hear something for the first time, and, "bam!" It move your spirit. just wow
"Fugo mirou Buccellati e quase soluçou alto.
Ele jamais havia visto Buccellati daquele jeito.
Era como se ele estivesse chorando, só que sem lágrima nenhuma surgindo. Como se, há muito tempo, elas tivessem secado. Os lábios dele estavam secos e sem cor, sua face igualmente pálida. O brilho de seus olhos totalmente morto, incolores como um abismo sem rastro de fim."
One of my most cherished albums. Always fresh even if I got it on a close rotatation.
Phenomenal, this is music like poetry 👌🏾👌🏾
The abundant combination of instruments leads you to an acoustical trip envolving so many feelings, Miles Davis will remain master of the jazz, still listening 2024 🎷 🎧 🎶🤩
Je me souviens encore du moment où j’ai entendu pour la première fois ce son.
tra le più belle ed estemporanee incisioni di Miles. Straordinario.
Ai perfettamente ragione.
Legendary music from Miles Davis! I used to listen to this album, when I discovered and got into jazz way back when, in the early 80's!
amazing tune played by a Genius, he'll be always in our hearts for eternity, we'll love Him for ever...
I remember seeing the movie as a kid. The haunting sense was enhanced by Miles sound. Listening to this and Kind of Blue changed the way I heard music.
Mood music of the highest order...
+Keith Bickerstaffe no shadow could doubt it.
Sorry, to call this MOOD music is unacceptable and degrading....
Charis, I disagree. Mood music is exactly what it is - and I sincerely wish that many more people were in that mood.
Particularly the killers on their way to gallows
+Charis Varnadore Hey, quiet, you're killin' the mood.
Quel génie, quelle sensation ... c'est comme si la musique venait d'une ruelle sombre, on ne voit pas Miles à l'écran, mais tu sais qu'il est là
Great - Thanks. Miles Dewey Davis, 26 mai 1926 - 28 septembre 1991.
Georges Prudenté Miles was the greatest
people would buy the album THEN go watch the move after hearing this. its crazy how talented this man was
The SUPREME Miles Davis!! Beautifull.
26 minutes of pure mood and silence. I thank the person who put Generique on a 60s sampler LP which has allowed me to play it for 50 years. A soundtrack unlike any other. Magnifique.
I've been a huge fan of Miles Davis for many years, ever since I listened to "Kind of Blue." I've heard many of his other recordings in the hope that I could find another album that could equal "Kind of Blue", but up until today I never had any luck. Until I discovered this album quite by chance. I could tell by the first song that it was right up there with his best work.
This record is fit to be called possibly! his best work. Most certainly it is outstandingly good - a Jazz one of a kind!
Le génial talent du créateur de musique et de générosité dans le jazz évolutif merci frère miles qui ne pouvait pas jouer une seul note pour les racistes jah live rastafari