''Des femmes disparaissent'' is a

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to the French film of the same name by drummer

Art Blakey Arthur Blakey (October 11, 1919 – October 16, 1990) was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. He was also known as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina after he converted to Islam for a short time in the late 1940s. Blakey made a name for himself in the 1 ...

's Jazz Messengers recorded in Paris in 1958 and originally released on the French

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accessed June 27, 2013 Originally released as a 10 inch LP it has been subsequently released in LP and CD formats with additional French soundtrack material from the same period by other jazz artists. A few of the songs on the soundtrack are original songs by

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like " Whisper Not", "Just for Myself", "Cry a Blue Tear", “Blues on my Mind”, and "Fair Weather". The film ''Des femmes disparaissent'' (''Women Disappear''), starring Robert Hossein, Magali Noel and Estella Blain, was directed by Édouard Molinaro and distributed in the US as ''The Road to Shame''.

Reception

Scott Yanow of Allmusic stated: "Soundtrack albums are generally music-minus-one affairs, the 'one' being the film. The music for soundtracks is meant to accentuate the visual story but, taken by itself, it usually sounds very incomplete. This CD, only recommended to completists, mostly features Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers in December 1958, playing short themes and sketches that were used in the French film ''Des Femmes Disparaissent''".Yanow, S
Allmusic Review
accessed June 27, 2013

Track listing

''All compositions by Art Blakey and Benny Golson except track 5 and tracks 10–14 written by Blakey.'' # "Générique" (“Blues on my Mind”) - 2:44 # "Pierre et Béatrice" ("Cry a Blue Tear") - 1:03 # "Nasol" - 0:41 # "Tom" - 1:13 # "Poursuite dans la ruelle" - 0:19 # "Ne chuchote pas" ("Whisper Not") - 1:25 # "Mambo dans la voiture" ("Sakeena") - 1:17 # "Merlin" - 0:45 # "Juste pour eux seuls" ("Just for Myself") - 2:25 # "Blues pour Doudou" - 3:13 # "Blues pour Marcel" - 4:19 # "Blues pour Vava" - 3:29 # "Pasquier" - 1:00 # "Quaglio" - 0:45 # "La Divorcée de Léo Fall" - 2:10 # "Suspense, Tom et Nasol" - 0:39 # "Des femmes disparaissent" (“Blues on my Mind”) - 1:02 # "Final pour Pierre et Béatrice" ("Fair Weather") - 0:58

Personnel

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* Lee Morgan - trumpet *

- tenor saxophone * Bobby Timmons - piano * Jymie Merritt -

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Femmes Disparaissent (soundtrack) Art Blakey albums The Jazz Messengers albums 1959 soundtrack albums Fontana Records soundtracks