Pierre Michelot, 77; Arranger, Bass Player With Davis, Baker

Jazz bassist Pierre Michelot, 77, who recorded with Miles Davis and arranged music for Chet Baker, died Sunday in Paris, said pianist Rene Urtreger, a member of Michelot’s longtime jazz trio, HUM. Michelot had Alzheimer’s disease.

Michelot played with Davis on the soundtrack for Louis Malle’s classic thriller “Ascenseur Pour L’Echafaud” (“Elevator to the Gallows”). He recorded with Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Kenny Clarke and Django Reinhardt, and arranged music for Baker’s 1955-56 Barclay sessions in Paris.

Originally trained in classical piano, Michelot learned bass as a teenager and performed for American troops stationed in France after World War II. He was in great demand for concerts by American musicians in Paris in the postwar years.

Michelot had a role in French director Bertrand Tavernier’s 1986 film “Round Midnight.”