Before Miles Davis arrived in Paris, the aspiring filmmaker Louis Malle was aware that Miles’s quintet would be performing at the Saint-Germain club for a week following the Olympia concert. Recognizing this as an opportunity, Malle approached Marcel Romano with a equest: he expressed his desire for the Miles Davis quintet to provide the music for his debut film, “Ascenseur pour l’échafaud (Elevator to the Gallows).”
