Returning to film scores but remaining on the jazz genre, a sublime example of Miles Davis in his early modal style, from his 1958 soundtrack to Louis Malle’s adaptation of a crime novel, starring Jeanne Moreau. Translated as Lift To The Scaffold (or Frantic), Davis’s trumpet compositions are the perfect accompaniment to the moody, murderous plot, Moreau and Maurice Ronet as lovers who conspire to kill Moreau’s husband in a plot that of course doesn’t go to plan. The trumpet’s extraordinary voice, bringing profound passion and melancholy, as narrator instilled into the action on those Paris, is truly transcendent, and this music became the foundation for those later masterpiece albums over the next year, Kind of Blue and Milestones. Two clips below show Moreau in action, the former interspersed with images of Davis playing.
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