Des femmes disparaissent is a soundtrack album to the French film of the same name by drummer Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers recorded in Paris in 1958 and originally released on the French Fontana label.
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.
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".