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| 5.0 classic | "Be Like Water" or broke like an oak | February 26th 22 |
4.8/5
Tour de maitre of improvisation. This, of course, cannot be perfect, nothing is.
Recorded at Le Poste Parisien Studio in Paris on December 4 and 5, 1957.
The album features the musical cues for the 1958 Louis Malle film Ascenseur pour l'echafaud.
On December 4, Miles 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. And that is, what we called, "music genius".
Miles Davis - trumpet
Barney Wilen - sax
Rene Urtreger - piano
Pierre Michelot - bass
Kenny Clarke - drums
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| 4.0 excellent | Erwann S. STAFF | May 13th 20 |
The most Parisian album made by a non-Parisian. Three of the sidemen are French, but this is still Davis' work. This album, while not the dude's best, is a monument on its own, being the quintessential film noir record. In Davis' discography, this is the work that lays the foundations for Milestones (1958) and Kind of Blue (1959).
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| 4.5 superb | scheim | June 22nd 15 |
Some of the most hauntingly depressing music ever.
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| 4.0 excellent | habster3 | April 19th 14 |
Neat soundtrack. Glad to see this was included on one of the Kind of Blue re-releases.
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| 2.5 average | GamamJ | January 8th 21 |
Decent piece of diverse jazz stylistically. The music, while diverse, is still quite generic though.
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| 5.0 classic | Dewinged STAFF | February 14th 24 |
| 4.5 superb | bSmith | February 8th 24 |
| 4.5 superb | Hawks | July 23rd 23 |
| 2.5 average | Araz | February 20th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | arf | September 16th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | manosg EMERITUS | May 20th 22 |
| 3.5 great | Oatus | May 18th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | ZIG | February 19th 22 |
| 3.5 great | sevhar | January 28th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Khattak | January 12th 21 |
| 5.0 classic | Paulus | October 8th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Onater | April 26th 19 |
| 3.5 great | crab | February 20th 19 |
| 5.0 classic | Jadiel | June 20th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | solrage | October 20th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Levan | May 12th 17 |
| 3.5 great | adr | January 14th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Wolfe | October 22nd 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | Henry | May 14th 16 |
| 2.5 average | loulou | March 11th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | Rodrigo | April 16th 15 |
| 5.0 classic | plato66 | October 3rd 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | hermmess | September 8th 12 |
| 5.0 classic | Steedo | March 1st 12 |
| 3.5 great | doqtor | November 19th 09 |
| 3.5 great | Steeed | January 18th 08 |
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