Un Témoin dans la ville
Doxy Cinematic (0889397381264)
Movie | Release date: 01/22/2016 | Film release: 1959 | Format: Vinyl
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| # | Track | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Témoin Dans La Ville | ||
| 2. | La Pendaison | ||
| 3. | Mélodie Pour Les Radio-Taxis | ||
| 4. | Poursuite Et Metro | ||
| 5. | Ambiance Pourpre | ||
| 6. | Préméditation Dans L'appartement | ||
| 7. | La Vie N'est Qu'une Lutte | ||
| 8. | Complainte Du Chauffeur | ||
| 9. | Sur L'antenne | ||
| 10. | Blues De L'antenne | ||
| 11. | Sos Radio-Taxis | ||
| 12. | Final Au Jardin D'acclimatization | ||
| 13. | Swing 39 | ||
| 14. | Vamp | ||
| 15. | John's Groove | ||
| 16. | Que Reste-T'il De Nos Amours |
Having already played on a film soundtrack with Miles Davis for Louis Malle's 1958 crime film Ascenseur pour l'échafaud (Elevator to the Gallows), saxophonist Barney Wilen -- still barely in his 20s -- got the opportunity to compose the score for another French film that used jazz as a background, Un témoin dans la ville (1959). Judging by the present album, the result is most convincing; one couldn't hope for a better marriage, so perfect is the way the music suits the image and vice versa. The soundtrack is coupled on the B-side with the more freely jazzy 1958 studio album Jazz sur Seine, which teams Wilen with three-fourths of the original Modern Jazz Quartet (with Milt Jackson on piano only, of all things, Percy Heath on bass, and drummer Kenny Clarke), plus the Latin percussion of Gana M'Bow. Wilen gets more of a chance to stretch out and reveal his swinging, warm tenor tone; Jackson is quite competent as an accompanist and in fairly fluent, right-handed bop flurries.
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