{"product_id":"miles-davis-michel-legrand-dingo-rhino-reserve-pressing","title":"Miles Davis \u0026 Michel Legrand - Dingo (Rhino Reserve Pressing)","description":"\u003cp\u003eTalk 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDingo\u003c\/em\u003e was the film in which Miles chose to play himself. He had taken on small acting parts before, a pimp on the TV show \u003cem\u003eMiami Vice\u003c\/em\u003e and a street musician in the movie \u003cem\u003eScrooged\u003c\/em\u003e, but this was his first major role. And he agreed to supply the music for the film as well.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cem\u003eDingo\u003c\/em\u003e soundtrack was completed before filming started. Miles called an old friend, the veteran French composer \u003cstrong\u003eMichel Legrand\u003c\/strong\u003e, to help out. They had last worked together in 1958, resulting in the album \u003cem\u003eLegrand Jazz\u003c\/em\u003e. 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.'\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe music backs up Legrand's words. \u003cem\u003eConcert on the Runway\u003c\/em\u003e swings with a hard-bop rhythmic stamp and a theme akin to \u003cem\u003eMilestones\u003c\/em\u003e from 1958. Many of the tracks sparkle with the combined lyricism of the two masters, whether uptempo or down: listen to \u003cem\u003eTrumpet Cleaning\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Dream\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cem\u003eThe Jam Session\u003c\/em\u003e is the funky payoff to the film, the live atmosphere and sudden reappearance of Cross' trumpet adding to its climactic feel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDingo\u003c\/em\u003e suffered from poor reviews and poorer box office. Looking back, one can surmise as to the reasons why Miles chose to involve himself with the film: perhaps the idea hit close to home of a youngster bitten by the music bug, searching for his hero, as Miles had done in 1944 when he arrived in New York City looking for \u003cstrong\u003eCharlie Parker\u003c\/strong\u003e. Or perhaps the notion of Cross laying aside his trumpet then being re-inspired to pick it up again, as Miles had in 1981. Whatever the motivation, Miles played Cross to type, sullen, reclusive, tight-lipped, and \u003cem\u003eDingo\u003c\/em\u003e featured the only big-screen role of his career.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rhino Reserve","offers":[{"title":"180g 1LP 33RPM","offer_id":58510916059481,"sku":"SDZ-48366","price":53.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0588\/3455\/0945\/files\/603497804443_2000x_f9ed8452-7547-43c0-a919-c313bf1dea2c.jpg?v=1783346034","url":"https:\/\/spindizzyrecords.com\/products\/miles-davis-michel-legrand-dingo-rhino-reserve-pressing","provider":"Spindizzy Dublin","version":"1.0","type":"link"}