Subscribe to theJazz in the Postwar French Cinema
Original Airdate: May 21st, 2005
In the 1950s, French film directors turned to American musicians such as Miles Davis and Art Blakey, and French musicians such as Barney Wilen and Martial Solal, to score the moody, cutting-edge movies that they were making. We’ll hear music from Davis’ soundtrack for the Louis Malle film Elevator to the Gallows and Solal’s for Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless, in addition to music from…
