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 Blakey’s Jazz Messengers and the Modern Jazz Quartet. Indiana University professor James Naremore, author of More Than Night: Film Noir In Its Contexts, is a special guest on this edition of Night Lights, which airs Saturday, May 21 at 11:05 p.m on WFIU.
Music Heard On This Episode
Miss D.D.
Mary Lou Williams — Black Christ of the Andes (Smithsonian Folkways, 1964)
