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Gidi Avrahami

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Mar 28, 1989, 2:45:35 PM3/28/89
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Miles Davis's soundtrack of L'Escalier Pour L'Echauffage -- a Louis
Mal movie from 1957 -- which contains early modal improvisations
and was out of print for many a year -- has been reissued on Fontana/
Polygram, with some extra 20 minutes of previously unreleased tracks
from the original session. I saw this at the local Tower, so it
shouldn't be hard to get.

(We had some discussion on the net about how good this music is,
compared to Kind Of Blue and Milestones and the Stella By Starlight
session, which it predates. I still maintain that it's right on par,
but the Bluenote Gurus -- the type of people that write angry letters
to Wynton Marsalis -- didn't agree. Oh well, just thought I'd keep
the net abreast of the news).
--
Gidi
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"Hell, if you understand everything I say, you'd be me!" (Miles Davis)
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Gidi Avrahami

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Mar 29, 1989, 1:13:19 PM3/29/89
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In article <80...@polya.Stanford.EDU> I write:
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>Miles Davis's soundtrack of L'Escalier Pour L'Echauffage --

I must have been asleep when I wrote that one. The movie's name
is ASCENSEUR POUR L'ECHAFAUD, and it was called Lift To The Scaffold
in Britain, Elevator To The Gallows in the USA.

Sandeep

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Mar 29, 1989, 8:44:31 AM3/29/89
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In article <80...@polya.Stanford.EDU>, gidi@polya (Gidi Avrahami) writes:
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>Miles Davis's soundtrack of L'Escalier Pour L'Echauffage -- a Louis
>Mal movie from 1957 -- which contains early modal improvisations
>and was out of print for many a year -- has been reissued on Fontana/
>Polygram, with some extra 20 minutes of previously unreleased tracks
>from the original session. I saw this at the local Tower, so it
>shouldn't be hard to get.
>

This isn't the same as:
Miles Davis - Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers
"Nouvelle Vague on CD" (soundtracks of:ascenseur pour l'echafaud, les
liasons dangereuses, des femmes disparaissent)
Philips (Phonogram S.A., Paris)
Recorded 1958-59

I have had the original LP version for quite a few years, and the CD
version (under the modified title) has been out on Philips for over a
year (as a general release). It's among my favorite Miles discs.

If it isn't does anyone have the catalog # to the Louis Malle film soundtrack?

Merci.

sandeep
--
Sandeep Mehta ...to be or not to bop ?
uunet!philabs!bebop!sxm s...@philabs.philips.com

Gidi Avrahami

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Mar 30, 1989, 1:01:15 PM3/30/89
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In article <48...@philabs.Philips.Com> Sandeep Mehta@bebop (Sandeep Mehta) writes:
>In article <80...@polya.Stanford.EDU >, gidi@polya (Gidi Avrahami) writes:
> >
>This isn't the same as:
> Miles Davis - Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers
> "Nouvelle Vague on CD" (soundtracks of:ascenseur pour l'echafaud, les
> liasons dangereuses, des femmes disparaissent)
> Philips (Phonogram S.A., Paris)
> Recorded 1958-59

Yeah, sure it's the same. Except it seems like they added some
previously unreleased miles stuff.

Sorry about my messing up the names.

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