Miles Davis Quintet Ascenseur Pour L'Echafaud Fontana
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This weeks auctions are all from a single collection of a French audiophile who took great care of his LPs. They have always been shelved and meticulously cared for. Mainly focused on obscure Jazz and Rock of the 60's early 70s. All in NEAR MINT - VG++ Quality. Original pressings! Some great rarities along with Near Mint landmarks of each genre.
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You are bidding on an original French pressing of Ascenseur Pour L'Echafaud Miles Davis Quintet / Des Femmes Disparaissent Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers
Fontana Records 680.242
Vinyl is NEAR MINT, Cover is NEAR MINT
Original French HQ pressing.... not a re issue. French Pressing of this session are among Miles most prized collectibles.
Side One is Miles and his quintet performing his original compositions from the 1958 French Film "Ascenseur Pour L'Echafaud"
" 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.
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 (Does One Ever Know), released a few months earlier in 1957.
Miles was booked to perform at the Club St-Germain in Paris for November 1957. Rappeneau introduced him to Malle, and Miles agreed to record the music after attending a private screening. On December 4, he brought his four sidemen to the recording studio without having had them prepare anything. Miles 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."
- Miles Davis - trumpet
- Barney Wilen - tenor saxophone
- René Urtreger - piano
- Pierre Michelot - bass
- Kenny Clarke - drums
Side Two is Art Blakey and the Messengers performing compositions from the Film Des Femmes Disparaissent which was released in 1959 also on Fontana
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