In Ascenseur Pour L'Echafaud, Miles Davis worked on a soundtrack that served the dark atmosphere of the film, the subtleties of the story, and internal thoughts of the characters. Amazingly, the entire jazz soundtrack was improvised.
Blue World is the collection of John Coltrane recordings used as the soundtrack for the French-language film titled Le Chat Dans Le Sac (The Cat in the Bag).
R.E.M.’s ninth album, Monster, was released at a time when the band were coming off the peak of their mainstream success, following Out of Time (1991) and Automatic For The People (1992).