Miles Davis

• 20-PAGE BOOKLET CD EDITION

• INCLUDES 5 BONUS TRACKS

INCLUDES NEW SPECIALLY PREPARED LINER NOTES BY PENGUIN GUIDE TO JAZZ'S WRITER BRIAN MORTON AND BY PARIS'S PRESTIGIOUS JAZZ MAGAZINE

“A kind of mythology sprang up around the performances, whichinvolved Miles Davis working without his regular group, and with just the exiled Kenny Clarke from home. Fans have pored over the recordings with more detailed attention than most soundtrack albums ever receive, treasuring such details as the little fleck of skin from the trumpeter’s lip that changes the timbre of his instrument on one cue. The recording and the circumstances of its making fitted the idea of the jazz improviser as an existential loner, always on the outside of society, making beautiful or heroic gestures out of nothing.” - PENGUIN GUIDE TO JAZZ

“Beyond the music’s fascinating minimalism is Miles’ unique sound, which is both distant and close, and absolutely bewitching even 60 Myears later. “Miles’ sound”, with or without the mute, would become instantly recognizable. The dark and luminous notes of the celebrated, fabulous “Générique” are today inseparable from Jeanne Moreau’s face, and from her nocturnal wandering through the streets of the French capital. This is cinematic jazz.” - JAZZ MAGAZINE

PERSONNEL:

• MILES DAVIS- trumpet on all tracks, plus:.

• ON TRACKS [1-10]: FILM SOUNDTRACKS: ASCENSEUR POUR L' ÉCHAFAUD.
• Barney Wilen - tenor sax
• René Urtreger - piano
• Pierre Michelot - bass
• Kenny Clark - drums
• Paris, December 4 & 5, 1957.

• ON TRACKS [11-13]: THE MILES DAVIS SEXTET
• John Coltrane- tenor sax
• Juian "Cannonball" Adderley - alto sax
• Bill Evans - piano
• Paul Chambers - bass
• Jymmy Cobb - drums
• New York, May 26, 1958

TRACKS:

• 01 GÉNÉRIQUE
• 02 L’ASSASSINAT DE CARALA
• 03 SUR L’AUTOROUTE
• 04 JULIEN DANS L’ASCENSEUR
• 05 FLORENCE SUR LES CHAMPS-ÉLYSÉES
• 06 DÎNER AU MOTEL
• 07 EVASION DE JULIEN
• 08 VISITE DU VIGILE
• 09 AU BAR DU PETIT BAC
• 10 CHEZ LE PHOTOGRAPHE DU MOTEL

• 11 ON GREEN DOLPHIN STREET
• 12 FRAN-DANCE
• 13 STELLA BY STARLIGHT
• 14 OLD FOLKS (*)
• 15 I THOUGHT ABOUT YOU (*)
• 16 ‘ROUND MIDNIGHT (*)
• 17 SOMETHING I DREAMED LAST NIGHT (*)
• 18 THERE IS NO GREATER LOVE (*)

• (*) BONUS TRACKS

• TOTAL TIME: 74:09 Min