UK collection. The Cinema of Miles Davis showcases superior examples of the use of the great jazz trumpeter's music in film. This edition includes his first complete score, sultry and improvised, for Elevator To the Gallows - Louis Malle's directorial debut starring the eternal Jeanne Moreau - which came in late 1957, a decisive time for Miles; marking the ending of his hard-bop period and anticipating the modal phase that would culminate in A Kind of Blue. With Parker and Dizzy Gillespie and Monk, Davis' music was central to the aesthetic of the Beat Generation so it is unsurprising to find it featured in documentaries on the life and work of both Jack Kerouac and Lenny Bruce. These iconic men of words considered their art to be a form of jazz with the latter referring to his voice as his "Horn". During the nineties, the Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar deployed powerful and ornate Gil Evans compositions, performed by Miles and inspired by flamenco, in High Heels and Flower of My Secret. Elsewhere, the incomparable Blue in Green appears in Sally Potter's passionate, Cold War meets the Sexual Revolution drama, Ginger & Rosa, while Miles' reading of the Eden Ahbez masterpiece Nature Boy, is heard under Mediterranean skies in Anthony Minghella's interpretation of Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley.
01 It Never Entered My Mind 02 Well You Needn't 03 Tempus Fugit 04 What Is 05 Blue Haze 06 The Beat Generation 07 Saeta 08 Solea 09 Blue In Green 10 Nature Boy 11 Generique 12 L'assassinat De Carala
13 Sur L'autoroute 14 Julien Dans L'ascenseur 15 Florence Sur Les Champs-elysees 16 Diner Au Motel 17 Evasion Du Vigile 18 Visite Du Vigile 19 A Bar Du Petit Bac 20 Chez Le Photographe Du Motel