Miles Davis: Ascenseur Pour L’Echafaud / Lift to the scaffold

“Ascenseur Pour L’echafaud,” famous in Germany as “Elevator to the Scaffold,” is a legendary crime film that still manages to captivate after 60 years. Louis Malle’s 1958 masterpiece, with stellar acting by Jeanne Moreau and Maurice Ronet, is one of the absolute classics of the genre.

Includes new, specially prepared liner notes by PENGUIN GUIDE TO JAZZ’s author BRIAN MORTON and by the renowned Paris JAZZ MAGAZINE.

MILES DAVIS, trumpet on all tracks, plus:

Side A: Film Soundtrack: Ascenseur pour l’échafaud
(Frantic/Lift to the Scaffold): BARNEY WILEN, tenor sax, RENÉ URTREGER, piano, PIERRE MICHELOT, bass, KENNY CLARKE, drums, Paris, December 4 & 5, 1957.

Side B: The Miles Davis Sextet

JOHN COLTRANE, tenor sax, JULIAN “CANNONBALL” ADDERLEY, alto sax, BILL EVANS, piano, PAUL CHAMBERS, bass, JIMMY COBB, drums Original session produced by Teo Macero. New York, May 26, 1958. *Bonus track: MILES DAVIS, trumpet; HORACE SILVER, piano; PERCY HEATH, bass; ART BLAKEY, drums. Hackensack, New Jersey, March 6, 1954