Help please: identify Miles Davis track

[Nick Armstrong]

Can jazzers please help by listening to the theme track of this 1966 thriller series currently airing on Radio 4extra:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000d8dv

Quite a long section of the track is played at the start and finish of each episode. It’s a great and atmospheric piece and I’d love to know what it is.

I found a BBC press release which says it’s the Miles Davis band and it certainly sounds like it.

Many thanks in advance!

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Incidentally, the series is well worth a listen - “Scottish noir” written with some style, and Gordon Jackson giving it the full disillusioned hard-man beans. I’m enjoying it a lot.

[kindofblue]

Can jazzers please help by listening to the theme track of this 1966 thriller series currently airing on Radio 4extra:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000d8dv

Quite a long section of the track is played at the start and finish of each episode. It’s a great and atmospheric piece and I’d love to know what it is.

I found a BBC press release which says it’s the Miles Davis band and it certainly sounds like it.

Many thanks in advance!

.

Incidentally, the series is well worth a listen - “Scottish noir” written with some style, and Gordon Jackson giving it the full disillusioned hard-man beans. I’m enjoying it a lot.

The opening section doesn't sound like Miles to me. The second piece of music with the expressive trumpet playing is Miles from the soundtrack of 'Ascenseur Pour L'Echafaud' by Louis Malle.

A short tutorial on the use of the term 'band' when talking about Miles is on offer for a small charge.

[Richard Tarleton]

A short tutorial on the use of the term 'band' when talking about Miles is on offer for a small charge.

If I'd had to pay for everything I've learnt from fellow forumites who know more than I do on all sorts of subjects, musical and otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to afford it

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

If I'd had to pay for everything I've learnt from fellow forumites who know more than I do on all sorts of subjects, musical and otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to afford it

Oh! - I thought kobbo was meaning something like "3 coulombs".

[LMcD]

The BBC Media Centre website says: featuring some wonderfully atmospheric music by Miles Davis', but I agree with kindofblue about the opening section.

[eighthobstruction]

....yes the first bit sounds like a GB player/band following a Miles/Gil Evans score/pastiche....more knowledgable folk than me about....tho'....

[Serial_Apologist]

....yes the first bit sounds like a GB player/band following a Miles/Gil Evans score/pastiche....more knowledgable folk than me about....tho'....

Laurie Johnson, Johnny Dankworth, somebody like that. Very "period" I'd say.

[antongould]

The opening section doesn't sound like Miles to me. The second piece of music with the expressive trumpet playing is Miles from the soundtrack of 'Ascenseur Pour L'Echafaud' by Louis Malle.

A short tutorial on the use of the term 'band' when talking about Miles is on offer for a small charge.

Can’t believe you didn’t spot the difference Rumpole ...... as you say it is well worth a listen .....

[Serial_Apologist]

Can’t believe you didn’t spot the difference Rumpole ...... as you say it is well worth a listen .....

Hadn't realised you knew so much about jazz, anton!

[Nick Armstrong]

The opening section doesn't sound like Miles to me. The second piece of music with the expressive trumpet playing is Miles from the soundtrack of 'Ascenseur Pour L'Echafaud' by Louis Malle.

Great shout, kindof Forgot that album!

I would also love to know the track right at the beginning (with the “The BBC presents....” voiceover)... It sounds too sophisticated to have been written & recorded specifically for the series.

A short tutorial on the use of the term 'band' when talking about Miles is on offer for a small charge.

Perhaps for the price of a pint (and over the latter) at some point soon?

[antongould]

Hadn't realised you knew so much about jazz, anton!

Not a thing, sadly, S_A .......

[Ein Heldenleben]

My wild guess for the pre anno music is the Tubby Hayes Big Band on the somewhat wide grounds that it’s a big band with a big fat juicy tenor sax solo....

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

The opening "snatch" is a long way from Gil Evans. As it's a British production, maybe Harry South, who did a lot of radio and TV theme & background music in the 60s and 70s...or just some generic large "ensemble" lifted from anywhere.

[burning dog]

The opening "snatch" is a long way from Gil Evans. As it's a British production, maybe Harry South, who did a lot of radio and TV theme & background music in the 60s and 70s...or just some generic large "ensemble" lifted from anywhere.

Off topic but...

Young Kenny Wheeler with Dankworth

[kindofblue]

Off topic but...

Young Kenny Wheeler with Dankworth

This is great, thanks burning dog! Would never have recognised Kenny Wheeler. It starts off in 'Birth of the Cool' territory, and then starts to swing. Fascinating.