MILES DAVIS: BIRTH OF THE COOL
synopsis
Using words from Miles Davis’s autobiography, Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool offers an incisive insight into our understanding of the legendary musician. Newly released archival material, alongside interviews with pre-eminent historians and personal friends like Quincy Jones, illustrate a man of intensity and devotion to his craft. Despite the indignities of America during the time of segregation, nothing was going to stop Davis from realizing his dream: to create a new form of musical expression. Davis worked like a physicist with his collaborators to push musical experimentation and widen the tones and lyricism of jazz—the effects of which are felt to this day.
international title: | Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool |
original title: | Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool |
country: | United States, United Kingdom |
sales agent: | Firelight Films, Inc. (US) |
year: | 2019 |
genre: | documentary |
directed by: | Stanley Nelson |
film run: | 115' |
film editing: | Lewis Erskine |
producer: | Stanley Nelson, Nicole London |
executive producer: | Terry Shand, Geoff Kempin, Michael Kantor |
associate producer: | Lauren Wimbush |