Miles Ahead

USA 2015, Feature film, Director: Don Cheadle, English OF with German subtitles, 100 min.

This biopic is dedicated to two days in the life of jazz trumpeter Miles Davis, played by Don Cheadle, who makes his film directing debut here. Miles has lived in seclusion in New York since the mid-1970s, trying to suppress his chronic pain and memories of his muse and former wife Frances Taylor with drugs. He had not released an album for years. But then, in 1980, a rumor spread that he had recorded new songs. Music journalist Dave Braden senses a top story and wants to force an interview with Davis. The meeting between the two takes a dramatic turn ...

COOL - A Miles Davis jazz movie day

On May 26, Miles Davis (1926 - 1991) would have been 100 years old, one of the greatest artists of the 20th century, a man of change who prided himself on having fundamentally renewed jazz several times: From bebop to the tonal sophistication of cool jazz, from the earthy passion of hard bop to the iridescence of modal jazz, from the magnetism of the swinging beat to the groove, to the trance of electronic dance music.

The UNERHÖRT! Music Film Festival Hamburg presents three films at the Metropolis Cinema that focus on Miles Davis and his music.

The trio Rückert Hughes Popple and DJ Round Table will perform in the supporting program - with jazz from bebop to dancefloor.

Hamburg-based cultural journalist Stefan Hentz, who has been awarded the German Jazz Journalism Prize and whose biography Miles Davis. Sound of a Life has just been published by Reclam, provides an overview of key stages in the trumpeter's artistic career and musical aesthetics and introduces the films.