The release of the movie miles ahead, don cheadles wildly entertaining and moving exploration of miles davis, will be accompanied by this new soundtrack featuring musical highlights from miles career and new recordings overseen by grammy awardwinning jazzhiphop. He had done biopics before, starring as sammy davis jr. Rolling stone reporter dave brill ewan mcgregor wants is an exclusive interview with the jazz legend himself, miles davis don cheadle. Miles ahead, the longawaited movie about miles davis, will be released in theaters this week after making the rounds of film festivals in the u.
With carl lumbly, miles davis, reginald petty, quincy troupe. He moved to new york in 1944 and studied at juilliard. Parents need to know that miles ahead is a biographical drama about legendary jazz trumpeterbandleader miles davis. The camera often sits in unexpected placesdown an alley near the dumpster, languidly careening from one persons mouth to another during a conversation, holding onto the corner of a face. Not your miles davis biopic a film we also need you are drawn in to a world informed by his life, that never happened. Miles davis scored film elevator to the gallows in theaters. The only gripe i had which can happen on shoe string budgets, the sound was low on scenes. More accurately miles davis and the gil evans orchestra, miles forsakes his trumpet for flugelhorn in a breathtakingly beautiful album. Indeed, the straightforward birth of the cool may work best as a primer for don cheadles fictionalized 2016 biopic miles ahead. With jimmy cobb, shirley horn, frances davis, clark terry.
Thats how cowriter, star and director don cheadle explained the. Why i give a hoot for competing dead jazz musician movies. Don cheadle plays miles davis in the movie miles ahead. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20thcentury music. Miles dewey davis iii was born into uppermiddleclass comfort in alton, ill. Miles ahead 2016 stream and watch online in the 1970s, downandout jazz trumpeter miles davis don cheadle tries to recover his new session. Miles ahead is a 2015 american biographical drama film directed by don cheadle in his feature directorial debut, which cheadle cowrote with steven baigelman, stephen j. The new miles davis movie miles ahead takes an unconventional and impressionistic approach to a shapeshifting musical giant. Davis adopted a variety of musical directions in a fivedecade career that kept him at the forefront of many major stylistic developments in jazz. On this release it is supported by the short1955 album blue moods which fits well stylistically particularly on the simply wonderful nature boy. Don cheadle plays miles davis in miles ahead, a biopic on the jazz musicians life. In 1979, a journalist, dave ewan mcgregor, bangs on miless new york brownstone. Hes regarded as one of the most innovative, influential and respected figures in the history of music. Miles ahead captures the spirit and genius of the trumpeter miles davis in part by setting aside his legendary glamor.
December 20, 2019 american masters presents stanley nelsons grammynominated miles davis. Performed by a miles davisfronted european band for a movie by louis malle, this music helped define the sound of film noir. The film stars cheadle, emayatzy corinealdi, and ewan mcgregor, and closed the new york film festival on october 11, 2015. An exploration of the life and music of miles davis. Written, directed by, and starring don cheadle, the drama flashes back and forth between the final year of davis hiatus from the music industry and his career two decades earlier, when he was recording for columbia records with gil. The ensembles of miles davis epitomized cool the new. Miles davis, famous jazz trumpeter, composer and bandleader, was born 26 may 1926 in alton, illinois.
His father was an oral surgeon and his mother was a music teacher. In previous years, the miles davis bootleg series vol. This documentary feature explores archival photos and home movies shot by miles and his colleagues, his manuscripts and miles original paintings, to explore the man behind the music. Don cheadles film, miles ahead, is miles apart from other. An interview with stanley nelson, director of miles davis.
Miles davis had his hands in a lot of projects during his career, with one of the most interesting arguably being his contributions to french crime film elevator to the gallows. Miles davis is the one jazz figure of the postwar era who had, and still has, the largerthanlife quality of a pop star. With george clinton, marcus miller, jimmy heath, benny rietveld. Miles ahead and born to be blue immortalise miles davis and link him to chet baker.
If you can make a movie about a toothless trumpet player who. Miles dewey davis iii may 26, 1926 september 28, 1991 was an american jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. Images move in and out of focus, at times without reason. You dont do what i say, im going to kill you, a raspyvoiced cheadle tells ewan mcgregor, who plays a rolling. A kid from middle america, desperate to move to chicago, joins the volleyball team to get a scholarship the only catch is that his high school only has a girls team. Birth of the cool, premiering at chicagos gene siskel film center on friday, october 4th with the filmmaker in attendance. This is a movie the jazz icon would want to star in. Miles ahead movie clip classical music 2016 don cheadle, ewan mcgregor movie hd an exploration of the life and music of miles davis. Other jazz artists, of course, became legends charlie parker, john coltran. I use the term biopic loosely for this movie because its a biopic that is as unconventional as its. With tim boardman, molly shannon, stephen root, will erat. Watch miles ahead movie trailer entertainment weekly.
Miles dewey davis was born on may 26, 1926, to an affluent african american family in alton, illinois. From miles davis estate featured on prestige 70 podcast. He left school and entered the jazz society of new york, meeting such famous musicians as thelonious monk, charlie parker and charles mingus. Great movie don cheadle did a great job, think of this movie as a what if miles davis was still around to act. Cheadles portrayal is being hailed as capturing the badass swagger that made davis a hero to generations of black men. The fandango movieclips trailers channel is your destination for. It made viewers think the genres films had always sounded just so, with slowwalking bass beats and muted, slithering horn lines miming the characters on the screenand underlining their emotions. Heres a trip through five decades with the man and his horn, including one groundbreaking album for each tenyear period. Miles ahead cheadle takes on the jazz great in an uneven but inventive film that struggles at times to bring clarity to its idea of davis but experiments intriguingly with past. Miles ahead 2016 stream and watch online moviefone. With don cheadle, emayatzy corinealdi, ewan mcgregor, michael stuhlbarg.
There are so many textures and sounds and colors to the filmsheened afros, silk the. The film is a fictionalized account of an episode in the life of alltime jazz great miles davis. The fandango movieclips coming soon channel is the destination. Don cheadle on becoming miles davis the new york times. Miles ahead is a biopic starring don cheadle as famous social music trumpeter miles davis. Don cheadle and a community of artists made a film the way they imagined miles davis would have, with attitude and always looking forward. Miles ahead movie clip gone 2016 don cheadle, ewan. Rent miles ahead 2016 on dvd and bluray dvd netflix. Watch miles ahead movie trailer entertainment weekly february 2, 2016 entertainment weekly has the exclusive premiere of the movie trailer for miles ahead, starring and directed by don cheadle, who spoke with the magazine about the film, which opens in u. Miles davis at newport 19551975 was honored as the reissuesarchive album of the year by the 2015 jazzwise albums of the year critics poll. Davis famously claimed that he changed the course of music five or six times. Miles ahead is a wildly entertaining and moving exploration of one of 20th century musics creative geniuses, miles davis, featuring a career defining performance by oscar nominee don cheadle in.
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