Whats on your turntable tonight?

That's a great box set! Although I had to by mine myself... my wife thinks I'm nuts/overly OCD when it comes to music!

To wit, my before-bed listen (and new acquisition):

Miles Davis - Ascenseur pour l'echafaud

Bill Evans Trio - "With Symphony Orchestra" [Verve/Polydor (France) LP reissue '66/'7?]

Count Basie & His Orchestra - "One O'Clock Jump" [Columbia LP '56, rec. '42-'51]

Xavier Cugat & His Orchestra - "Viva Cugat!" [Mercury stereo LP '61]

Small Faces - "The Autumn Stone" [Immediate (England) 2LP comp. '69]

The Turtles - "Wooden Head" [Rhino LP reissue '70/'84]

The Dramatics - "Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get" [Volt LP '72]

Ascenseur pour l'echafaud
Elevator to the Gallows

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia....

Ascenseur pour l'échafaud is a 1958 French film directed by Louis Malle. It was released as Elevator to the Gallows in the USA (aka Frantic) and as Lift to the Scaffold in the UK. It stars Jeanne Moreau and Maurice Ronet as criminal lovers whose perfect crime begins to unravel when Ronet is trapped in an elevator. The film is often associated by critics with the film noir style.

The score by Miles Davis has been described by jazz critic Phil Johnson as "the loneliest trumpet sound you will ever hear, and the model for sad-core music ever since. Hear it and weep."

"Sad-core"???

I haven't heard (or seen) this, but I oughta...Thanks to the prompt I looked it up on IMDB, and noticed that the bass player was Pierre Michelot (Jacques Loussier Trio) and the drummer Kenny Clarke (MJQ).

Then pursuing that further, additionally noticed that ex-pat Clarke also had a music credit for "An Occurence At Owl Creek Bridge" (an Oscar-winning French short of the Ambrose Bierce story, picked up here as a last-season Twilight Zone episode), which I haven't seen since we were shown it in grade school but well remember, so great an impression did it make on me at the time...Things you never knew!

The Blue Nile - 'Peace At Last'. 1996 LP On Warner Brothers. Super hard to find on vinyl, but well worth it. Well recorded, if a bit bass-heavy. Great music as always from Paul Buchanan. More acoustic than their previous two Linn releases, but just as excellent, if not more emotive and personal.