Miles Davis – Ascenseur Pour L'échafaud with Barney Wilen Label: Fontana – 660.213 MR Rare 10" LP , Album, Mono , Made in : France , Released: 1959 Jeanne Moreau - Photo on Cover , On back cover: - F. Richir - Maitre-Imprimeur - Paris - Le Perreux - 99 Cover in Excellent condition ( very few creases , Spine & seams have few wear little more on spine looks at my photo section, Very clean & integre copy for its old age , there is an old archivy mark inside foldout cover ) Record Excellent ( Very shiny , not many used Labels are perfect , Plays Great with minimal surface noise and few light tics ) Really Hard to Find A Better Copy !!!!!!! This soundtrack with the musical cues for Louis Malle's 1958 film Ascenseur Pour L'Échafaud was recorded at Le Poste Parisien Studio in Paris on December 4 and 5, 1957. Jean-Paul Rappeneau, a jazz fan and Malle's assistant at the time, suggested asking Miles Davis to create the film's soundtrack - possibly inspired by the Modern Jazz Quartet's recording for Roger Vadim's Sait-On Jamais (Does One Ever Know), released a few months earlier in 1957. Davis was booked to perform at the Club Saint-Germain in Paris for November 1957. Rappeneau introduced him to Malle, and Davis agreed to record the music after attending a private screening. On December 4, he brought his four sidemen to the recording studio without having had them prepare anything. Davis only gave the musicians a few rudimentary harmonic sequences he had assembled in his hotel room, and, once the plot was explained, the band improvised without any precomposed theme, while edited loops of the musically relevant film sequences were projected in the background. Personell ; Bass – Pierre Michelot Drums – Kenny Clarke Piano – René Urtreger Tenor Saxophone – Barney Wilen Trumpet – Miles Davis