Ascenseur pour l'échafaud
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Performed by a Miles Davis-fronted European band for a movie by Louis Malle, this music helped define the sound of film noir. It made viewers think the genre's films had always sounded just so, with slow-walking bass beats and muted, slithering horn lines miming the characters on the screen--and underlining their emotions. The melodies here are brief fragments, sometimes rising up only to disappear and then briefly return. This is Miles playing in the moment, improvising musical impressions as he watched the screen. And what he played managed to capture the era of postwar everywhere, while it offered Davis the freedom to test hi
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Manufacturer: Fontana
Release date: 25 October 1990
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0042283630529 UPC: 042283630529
Release date: 25 October 1990
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0042283630529 UPC: 042283630529
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