'If you are going to tell a story, come with some attitude, man'

Miles Dewey Davis III (26 May 1926 – 28 September 1991)

After a ten-year gestation, actor Don Cheadle (Hotel Rwanda [2004], Crash [2004]) has realised his dream to produce a film on the legendary jazz musician Miles Davis. Cheadle who directs, co-writes, and plays the central role eschews the usual linear narrative in Miles Ahead and takes as his point of departure the five or so unproductive wilderness years of the late 1970s when Davis lives a hermit-like existence in his New York apartment, struggling with alcohol, drugs, an unexplained difficulty with his embouchure, and other health problems.