An exploration of the life and music of Miles Davis.An exploration of the life and music of Miles Davis.An exploration of the life and music of Miles Davis.
- Awards
- 1 win & 14 nominations
LaKeith Stanfield
- Junior
- (as Lakeith Lee Stanfield)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaMiles Davis really called up Phil Schaap on the air and told him he talked too much.
- GoofsVarious scenes show Miles playing trumpets apparently made by Vincent Bach Corp., Adams, and others. But he never appears to play a Martin Committee trumpet. Miles played various customized Martin Committee trumpets almost exclusively throughout his career.
- Quotes
Doorman: Do you have a pass?
Miles Davis: [points to his face] You're Looking At It.
- SoundtracksGone 2015
Produced by Don Cheadle and Robert Glasper
Written by Robert Glasper, Pharoahe Monch and Keyon Harrold
Published by Troy Jamerson Trescadecaphobia Music (BMI), I Am A Jazzy Guy (SESAC)/EMI FORAY MUSIC and Keykat Publishing Co (ASCAP)/Royalty Network
Performed by
Pharoahe Monch - Vocals
Keyon Harrold - Trumpet
Robert Glasper - Keys
Burniss Earl Travis - Bass
Justin Tyson - Drums
Mike Marino - Guitar
Featured review
Miles Ahead tells the story... well, not quite. The story of Miles Davis in the 70's. Going back and forth to the 50's. With all my love to the man himself, I gotta say the movie isn't so good. Let me break it down a little:
When you want to see a biography about a person, you would normally want to see his journey, his creations and art being shown, a bit of his struggles and personal life. You don't want to see a fictional journey of the person that has nothing to do with the man himself.
I have stated in the past that there have been many biography movies in the past few years depicting the lives of celebrities, when so many origin movies are being made so it loses its specificity and becomes cheap and ordinary.
In Miles Davis's case, they made a complete fictional story surrounding Miles, something a bit bizarre and odd. Even though I was a bit interested with this sort of plot. I would have rather done another biography depicting Miles Davis's career, the start, the middle and end. Have the movie focus on the music only. The music is what's important.
Luckily we do get to hear all of Miles's music, from "Kind of Blue" and "Sketches of Spain" to the 80's music.
Overall I guess the whole fictional shenanigan journey was just not good enough for the movie and probably was better to have a more simple plot line.
I have stated in the past that there have been many biography movies in the past few years depicting the lives of celebrities, when so many origin movies are being made so it loses its specificity and becomes cheap and ordinary.
In Miles Davis's case, they made a complete fictional story surrounding Miles, something a bit bizarre and odd. Even though I was a bit interested with this sort of plot. I would have rather done another biography depicting Miles Davis's career, the start, the middle and end. Have the movie focus on the music only. The music is what's important.
Luckily we do get to hear all of Miles's music, from "Kind of Blue" and "Sketches of Spain" to the 80's music.
Overall I guess the whole fictional shenanigan journey was just not good enough for the movie and probably was better to have a more simple plot line.
- saadanathan
- Apr 1, 2022
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Details
- Release date
- Country of origin
- Official sites
- Language
- Also known as
- Miles Davis
- Filming locations
- Cincinnati, Ohio, USA(Entire Movie)
- Production companies
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $2,610,896
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $114,530
- Apr 3, 2016
- Gross worldwide
- $3,473,958
- Runtime1 hour 40 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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