L'assassinat de Carala

Miles Davis · 1958 · Improvisation sur images, musique du film de Louis Malle

Context

Track from the album Ascenseur pour l'échafaud (Fontana, 1958), recorded in Paris on 4 and 5 December 1957. Miles Davis and his quartet improvise on a few chord sequences, with no written theme, in front of the images of Louis Malle's film.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Cool (Birth of the Cool), Jazz in film and on screen, French jazz. Among the origins and influences of Cool: Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's), Bossa nova, jazz samba.

By the same artist

• Générique (Ascenseur pour l'échafaud) (1958)
• Stella by Starlight (1958)
• Milestones (1958)
• Sur l'autoroute (1958)
• Julien dans l'ascenseur (1958)
• Florence sur les Champs-Élysées (1958)

Sources

• EN: Ascenseur pour l'échafaud (soundtrack)

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