In the summer of 1958, the Donald Byrd Quintet arrived in Paris to play at the Le Chat Qui Peche, a Left Bank jazz club. Also that summer, French saxophonist Barney Wilen was approached by Italian artist Sandro Bocola with a film idea. Months earlier, in December 1957, Wilen and Miles Davis recorded the film soundtrack for Elevator to the Gallows. Bocol…
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