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11/12/89: Miles Davis -- Jazz great Miles Davis told Harry Reasoner, 19 years ago this week, that unlike what many think, race did not play a role in developing his talent.
Listen Up: The Lives of Quincy Jones (1990) -- Open-ended Trailer from Warner Brothers Pictures

Overview

Date of Death:
28 September 1991, Los Angeles, California, USA more
Contact:
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Mini Biography:
Miles Davis, famous jazz trumpeter, composer and band-leader was born... more
Trivia:
Had 4 children: Cheryl (born 1944), Gregory, (born 1946), Miles IV (born... more
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Down 2% in popularity this week. See why on IMDbPro.
Awards:
1 win more
NewsDesk:
(42 articles)
Dog Ears Music: Volume Ninety-Nine
 (From Huffington Post. 20 November 2009, 10:31 AM, PST)

Standing Eight Count
 (From t5m.com. 2 November 2009, 4:38 AM, PST)


Filmography

Soundtrack:
  1. "Later with Jools Holland" (1 episode, 2009)
    ... aka A Little Later (USA: cut version)
        - Episode #35.1 (2009) TV episode (writer: "Freddie Freeloader", "All Blues")
  2. "Banda sonora" (2 episodes, 2007-2009)
        - Episode #5.20 (2009) TV episode (performer: "Kind of Blue")
        - Episode #1.12 (2007) TV episode (writer: "So What") (performer: "So What")
  3. "The Simpsons" (1 episode, 2008)
        - Mypods and Boomsticks (2008) TV episode (performer: "Moon Dreams" (uncredited))
  4. Grand Theft Auto IV (2008) (VG) ("Move")
    ... aka GTA IV (International: English title: short title)
  5. "Parashat Ha-Shavua" (9 episodes, 2006-2008)
        - Tetzaveh (2008) TV episode (writer: "It's About That Time") (performer: "In a Silent Way")
        - Yitro (2008) TV episode (writer: "Final Round")
        - BeShalach (2008) TV episode (writer: "Yaphet")
        - Bo (2008) TV episode (performer: "My Funny Valentine")
        - Toldot (2006) TV episode (writer: "Lonely Fire")
          (4 more)
  6. "Dexter" (1 episode, 2007)
        - That Night, a Forest Grew (2007) TV episode (writer: "So What") (performer: "So What")
  7. Zodiac (2007/I) (writer: "Solar") (performer: "Solar")
  8. Midnight Son (2007) (performer: "Nature Boy")
  9. "Druckfrisch" (1 episode, 2006)
        - Episode #4.8 (2006) TV episode (performer: "Harry and Dolly")
  10. Collateral (2004) (writer: "Spanish Key") (performer: "Spanish Key")
  11. Levity (2003) (writer: "Blue in Green" (1959)) (performer: "Blue in Green" (1959))
  12. "The West Wing" (1 episode, 2003)
        - The Long Goodbye (2003) TV episode (performer: "Kind of Blue")
  13. Comedian (2002) (performer: "If I Were a Bell")
  14. "The Wire" (1 episode, 2002)
        - Old Cases (2002) TV episode (writer: "All Blues") (performer: "All Blues")
  15. "Crossing Jordan" (1 episode, 2002)
        - For Harry, with Love & Squalor (2002) TV episode (performer: "Stella By Starlight" (uncredited))
  16. "Livshunger" (1 episode, 2002)
        - Episode #1.3 (2002) TV episode (music: "SO WHAT")
  17. The Score (2001) (performer: "Autumn Leaves")
    ... aka The Score (Germany)
  18. Scratch (2001) (writer: "Doo Bop Song") (performer: "Doo Bop Song")
  19. Extranjeros de sí mismos (2000) (performer: "Soleá")
    ... aka Aliens to Themselves (International: English title)
    ... aka Strangers to Themselves (International: English title)

  20. The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) (performer: "NATURE BOY") ("FOUR")
    ... aka The Mysterious Yearning Secretive Sad Lonely Troubled Confused Loving Musical Gifted Intelligent Beautiful Tender Sensitive Haunted Passionate Talented Mr. Ripley (USA: complete title)
  21. In Too Deep (1999) (performer: "I Thought About You")
  22. Runaway Bride (1999) (performer: "It Never Entered My Mind")
  23. Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth (1998) (performer: "It Never Entered My Mind")
  24. Where's Marlowe? (1998) (writer: "All Blues")
  25. Pleasantville (1998) (writer: "So What") (performer: "So What")
  26. Day 532 (1998) (writer: "Ife") (performer: "Ife")
  27. One Eight Seven (1997) (writer: "Blue in Green") (performer: "Blue in Green")
  28. The Last Time I Committed Suicide (1997) (performer: "Move")
  29. Message to Love: The Isle of Wight Festival (1997) (writer: "Call It Anything") (performer: "Call It Anything")
    ... aka Message of Love: The Isle of Wight Festival: The Movie (USA: video title)
    ... aka Message to Love (UK)
  30. Trzy dni z zycia malzenskiego (1997) (performer: "The Pan Piper")
    ... aka Three Days from a Marriage
  31. Terra Estrangeira (1996) (performer: "Fran Dance") ("Fran Dance")
    ... aka Foreign Land
  32. Basquiat (1996) (writer: "Flamenco Sketches") (performer: "Flamenco Sketches")
    ... aka Build a Fort, Set It on Fire
  33. La flor de mi secreto (1995) (performer: "Soleá")
    ... aka La fleur de mon secret (France)
    ... aka The Flower of My Secret (USA)
  34. A Bronx Tale (1993) (performer: "Flamenco Sketches")
  35. In the Line of Fire (1993) (writer: "All Blues") (performer: "All Blues")
  36. Sneakers (1992) (writer: "Flamenco Sketches") (performer: "Flamenco Sketches")
  37. Tacones lejanos (1991) (performer: "Soleá", "Saeta")
    ... aka High Heels (USA)
    ... aka Talons aiguilles (France)
  38. A Kiss Before Dying (1991) (writer: "So What") (performer: "So What")

  39. Scrooged (1988) (performer: "We Three Kings of Orient Are")
  40. 36 fillette (1988) (performer: "Moon Dreams")
    ... aka Junior Size 36 (Canada: English title: festival title)
    ... aka Virgin (UK)
  41. Absolute Beginners (1986) (writer: "So What (Lyric Version)")
    ... aka Absolute Beginners - The Musical (International: English title: poster title)

  42. Lenny (1974) ("It Never Entered My Mind", "Tempus Fugit", "Well You Needn't")

  43. The Sound of Miles Davis (1959) (TV) (writer: "So What")
Composer:
  1. Les lunettes (2007)
  2. "Beef: The Series" (2006) TV series (unknown episodes)
  3. Miles Electric: A Different Kind of Blue (2004)

  4. Dingo (1991)
    ... aka Dingo - Dog of the Desert

  5. Siesta (1987)
  6. "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" (1 episode, 1985)
        - Prisoners (1985) TV episode

  7. Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (1968)

  8. Ascenseur pour l'échafaud (1958)
    ... aka Elevator to the Gallows
    ... aka Elevator to the Scaffold
    ... aka Frantic (USA)
    ... aka Lift to the Scaffold (UK)
Music Department:
  1. Dresden (1999) (composer: song "Big Foot")
  2. Tacones lejanos (1991) (musician: trumpet, "Solea" and "Saeta")
    ... aka High Heels (USA)
    ... aka Talons aiguilles (France)

  3. Street Smart (1987) (musician)
  4. Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling (1986) (musician: trumpet, "Just Squeeze Me")

  5. Lenny (1974) (musician: "Tempus Fugit", "Well You Needn't" and "It Never Entered My Mind")

  6. Ascenseur pour l'échafaud (1958) (musician: trumpet)
    ... aka Elevator to the Gallows
    ... aka Elevator to the Scaffold
    ... aka Frantic (USA)
    ... aka Lift to the Scaffold (UK)
Actor:
  1. Miles Davis: Live from the Montreal Jazz Festival (2000) (V) .... Trumpeter

  2. Dingo (1991) .... Billy Cross
    ... aka Dingo - Dog of the Desert

  3. Scrooged (1988) .... Street Musicians
  4. "VH1 New Visions" (1986) TV series .... Guest Host VJ (1987)
  5. "Miami Vice" .... Ivory Jones (1 episode, 1985)
        - Junk Love (1985) TV episode .... Ivory Jones
Self:
  1. Lennon Legend: The Very Best of John Lennon (2003) (V) .... Himself (segment "Nobody Told Me")

  2. Message to Love: The Isle of Wight Festival (1997) .... Himself
    ... aka Message of Love: The Isle of Wight Festival: The Movie (USA: video title)
    ... aka Message to Love (UK)
  3. Listen Up: The Lives of Quincy Jones (1990) .... Himself
    ... aka Listen Up

  4. 20th NAACP Image Awards (1988) (TV) .... Himself - Presenter
  5. "Late Night with David Letterman" .... Himself (1 episode, 1987)
        - Episode dated 11 December 1987 (1987) TV episode .... Himself
  6. Miles Ahead: The Music of Miles Davis (1986) (TV) .... Himself
  7. "Crime Story" .... Himself (1 episode, 1986)
        - The War (1986) TV episode .... Himself
  8. Sun City: Artists United Against Apartheid (1986) (V) .... Himself
  9. Miles Davis live in Europe (1983) .... Himself
  10. "Saturday Night Live" .... Himself - Musical Guest (1 episode, 1981)
    ... aka NBC's Saturday Night (USA: complete title)
    ... aka SNL (USA: informal title)
    ... aka SNL 25 (USA: alternative title)
    ... aka Saturday Night (USA: first season title)
    ... aka Saturday Night Live '80 (USA: sixth season title)
    ... aka Saturday Night Live 15 (USA: fifteenth season title)
    ... aka Saturday Night Live 20 (USA: twentieth season title)
    ... aka Saturday Night Live 25 (USA: twentiefifth season title)
        - George Kennedy/Miles Davis (1981) TV episode .... Himself - Musical Guest

  11. "In Concert" .... Himself (1 episode, 1973)
        - Episode #1.11 (1973) TV episode .... Himself
  12. Imagine (1972) (uncredited) .... Himself
  13. Fight of the Century (1971) (TV) .... Himself - Audience Member
    ... aka Ali-Frazier I (USA: informal title)

  14. Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (1968) (uncredited) .... Himself

  15. The Sound of Miles Davis (1959) (TV) .... Himself
  16. "Tonight!" .... Himself - Trumpet / ... (1 episode, 1955)
    ... aka Knickerbocker Beer Show (USA: summer title)
    ... aka The Knickerbocker Beer Presents The Steve Allen Show (USA: second season title)
    ... aka The Steve Allen Show (USA: second season title)
    ... aka Tonight (USA: syndication title)
    ... aka Tonight Starring Steve Allen (USA: alternative title)
        - Down Beat Magazine Jazz Award (1955) TV episode .... Himself - Trumpet/Recipient Down Beat Award
Archive Footage:
  1. "Banda sonora"
        - Episode #5.20 (2009) TV episode .... Himself
        - Episode #1.12 (2007) TV episode .... Himself
  2. "Tracks"
        - Dennis Hopper (2008) TV episode .... Himself
  3. "ETV tokushû"
        - Miles Davis: The Man and His Music (2007) TV episode .... Himself
  4. "Video on Trial"
        - Episode #2.8 (2006) TV episode .... Himself
  5. Marilyn Mazur: Queen of Percussion (2006) .... Himself
  6. "The Greatest Canadian" (2004)
  7. Miles Electric: A Different Kind of Blue (2004) .... Himself
  8. A Huey P. Newton Story (2001) (TV) (uncredited) .... Himself
  9. The Miles Davis Story (2001) (TV) .... Himself
  10. Ali-Frazier I: One Nation... Divisible (2000) (TV) (uncredited) .... Himself - Audience Member
  11. Gimme Some Truth: The Making of John Lennon's Imagine Album (2000) (V) .... Himself
  12. "CNN World Beat"
        - Miles Davis Retrospective (2000) TV episode .... As Himself
  13. Prince Interactive (1994) (VG) .... Himself
  14. "Great Performances"
        - Miles Davis: A Tribute (1991) TV episode .... Himself


Additional Details

Other Works:
A member of the "Artists United Against Apartheid" charity project in 1985. more
Publicity Listings:
8 Biographical Movies | 1 Print Biography | 1 Interview | 10 Articles | 3 Magazine Cover Photos more
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