Fabulously and aptly moody music from Miles and crew here, on the expanded OST recordings for Louis Malle’s movie.
The sessions were in Paris, in 1957 (I think?), and find Miles with a trio of French jazzers – Barney Wilen (tenor sax), René Urtreger (piano) , Pierre Michelin (bass) – and fellow American abroad, Kenny ‘Klook’ Clarke (drums).
This CD augments the official release with lots of outtakes. 26 tracks in all, nine of which are ‘duplicates’, albeit in alternate take form.
But tracks 1-10 don’t repeat at all. Making them a straightforward listen. This is my first listen to this in donkeys years. And I probably listened to an unexpanded version, back whenever…
But so far, it’s fab…