Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool (2019)

★ 7.2 1h 55m IMDb
Documentary History Music

An immersive look at the eventful life and brilliant artistic career of visionary American jazz trumpeter Miles Davis (1926-1991).

Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool

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Cast

Carl Lumbly
Carl Lumbly as Miles Davis (voice) Age 74 · Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA Carl Winston Lumbly (born August 14, 1951) is an American actor. He is known for his roles as television's first black superhero in M.A.N.T.I.S., Dick Hallorann in Doctor Sleep, NYPD detective Marcus...
Jimmy Heath
Jimmy Heath as Self - Musician Died 2020
Gerald Early
Gerald Early as Self - Writer Age 73 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. Gerald Lyn Early is an American essayist and American culture critic, appearing and serving as a consultant on Ken Burns' documentary films Baseball, Jazz, Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of...
Quincy Jones
Quincy Jones as Self - Musician Died 2024 · Chicago, Illinois, USA Quincy Delight Jones Jr. (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was an American record producer, musician, songwriter, composer, arranger, and film and television producer. His career spans 70 years in t...
Wayne Shorter
Wayne Shorter as Self - Musician Died 2023 · Newark, New Jersey, U.S. Wayne Shorter (August 25, 1933 – March 2, 2023) was an American jazz saxophonist, composer and bandleader. Shorter came to mainstream prominence in 1959 upon joining Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, for...
Juliette Gréco
Juliette Gréco as Self - Singer Died 2020 · Montpellier, Hérault, France Juliette Gréco (7 February 1927 – 23 September 2020) was a French singer and actress. Her best known songs are "Paris Canaille" (1962, originally sung by Léo Ferré), "La Javanaise" (1963, written by S...
Director Stanley Nelson
Cast Carl Lumbly, Reginald Petty, Quincy Troupe, Farah Griffin, Lee Annie Bonner, Ashley Kahn, Benjamin Cawthra, Jimmy Heath, Jimmy Cobb, Dan Morgenstern

Audience Reviews

SWITCH. 8/10 Jun 04, 2019
Stanley Nelson combines the man and his music to give us an intimate portrait of how one mind shaped popular culture, armed only with a well-manipulated trumpet and some smooth musical notes. ‘Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool’ humanises a musical genius and ends up giving us an engrossing, hilarious, informative and heartbreaking look at the Miles Davis that music fans thought they knew.
- Jake Watt

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https://www.maketheswitch.com.au/article/review-miles-davis-birth-of-the-cool-the-man-behind-the-jazz-legend

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