Miles Davis - Ascenseur pour L'echafaud Vinyl 10" LP Fontana 660.213 MR 1958
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Very rare original pressing of Miles Davis soundtrack to the French film, Ascenseur pour L'echafaud. This record was discovered in the back of an art gallery in Taos, New Mexico and has not been touched or played for 35 years. It needs a good professional cleaning as we were only able to give it a cursory DiskWash for play testing. Has been play tested and plays through with no skips. There is plenty of noise with many marks - audible pops on Side 2 - Side 2 has a 1" scratch but it still does not skip - VG-. Original labels are clean with no writing and very little spindle wear VG+. Sleeve split bottom and left side, loss on left front and some corner creases VG-. Please see pictures as photos are considered part of the description.

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. 

Davis was booked to perform at the Club Saint-Germain in Paris for November 1957. Rappeneau introduced him to Malle, and Davis 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. 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. 

The soundtrack was not released on it's own in the USA but ten songs from this soundtrack was released as one side of the album Jazz Trackwhich received a 1960 Grammy nomination for Best Jazz Performance, Solo or Small Group.



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