Miles Davis Ascenseur Pour L'echafaud ( Complete ) ( 180g vinyl 2LP )

Release date 22-09-2011( originally released in 1958)

2011 EU reissue 180g vinyl 2LP - complete Original '58 Soundtrack + 16 bonustracks-With a romantic sound reminiscent of his early '50s Blue Note recordings Ascenseur Pour L'Echafaud is a wonderfully reflective precursor to Davis' landmark release Kind Of Blue which was issued the following year. 

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.

For the first time since its original release in 1958, Music On Vinyl combined the original soundtrack and the additional recordings and created an essential 2LP set with the original artwork.

Tracks:
A1 Gnrique
A2 LAssassinat De Carala
A3 Sur LAutoroute
A4 Julien Dans LAscenseur
A5 Florence Sur Les Champslysees

B1 Dner Au Motel
B2 vasion De Julien
B3 Visite Du Vigile
B4 Au Bar Du Petit Bac
B5 Chez Le Photographe Du Mot

C1 Nuit Sur Les Champslyses TAKE 1
C2 Nuit Sur Les Champslyses TAKE 2
C3 Nuit Sur Les Champslyses TAKE 3
C4 Nuit Sur Les Champs Elysees TAKE 4
C5 Assassinat Visite Du Vigil
C6 Assassinat Julien Dans Lascenseur
C7 Assassinat LAssassinat De Carala
C8 Motel

D1 Final TAKE 1
D2 Final TAKE 2
D3 Final TAKE 3
D4 Ascenseur
D5 Le Petit Bal TAKE 1
D6 Le Petit Bal TAKE 2
D7 Squence Voiture TAKE 1
D8 Sequence Voiture Sur LAut TAKE 2