O.s.t./miles Davis
alk about typecasting: asking Miles to star in a film about a fictional jazz trumpeter who drops down onto an airfield in the Australian outback and performs with his band right there on the tarmac. Twenty years later, a boy who caught that impromptu performance has become a trumpeter, playing in juke joints that prefer loud, honky-tonk music. Leaving his hardscrabble life behind, he journeys to Paris to find Cross. They meet and jam, the crowd roars, credits roll. Dingo was the film in which Miles chose to play himself. He had taken on small acting parts before_a pimp on the TV show Miami Vice and a street musician in the movie Scrooged_but this was his first major role. And he agreed to supply the music for the film as well. The Dingo soundtrack was completed before filming started. Miles called an old friend, the veteran French composer Michel Legrand to help out. They had last worked together in 1958, resulting in the album Legrand Jazz. In 1990, the big question was if Miles would be willing to be true to the storyline: playing jazz in both a traditional and more contemporary approach. As Legrand recalled, "I asked him that on the first day, out at his Malibu home. He said, `That's no problem, because the story begins a long time ago and I'll do what the script calls for_so he'd play a phrase and put it on paper_He was in great shape. Even if it was a very bright tempo, he played everything with such love."
- Price
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- Genre
- Soundtrack
- Format
- LP · 1 disc
- Release
- 21-08-2026
- Label
- Rhino
- Item-nr
- 1322901
- EAN
- 0603497804443
- Availability
- Not in stock
