Sur l'autoroute

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. Miles Davis and his quartet improvise over 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)
• L'assassinat de Carala (1958)
• Julien dans l'ascenseur (1958)
• Florence sur les Champs-Élysées (1958)

Sources

• EN: Ascenseur pour l'échafaud (soundtrack)

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