Miles Ahead

Miles Ahead is a 2015 American biographical drama film about jazz musician Miles Davis.

Directed by Don Cheadle. Written by Steven Baigelman.
If you gonna tell a story, come with some attitudetaglines

Miles Davis

  • I don't like that word, "jazz". Don't... Don't call it "jazz", man. That's some made-up word. Trying to box somebody in. Don't call my music "jazz". It's social music.

Dialogue

Miles Davis: I don't like that word, "jazz". Don't... Don't call it "jazz", man. That's some made-up word. Trying to box somebody in. Don't call my music "jazz". It's social music.

Taglines

  • If you gonna tell a story, come with some attitude
  • Beyond cool, beyond jazz, beyond passion, lives the music.
  • A film as daring as the man.

Cast

  • Don CheadleMiles Davis
  • Emayatzy Corinealdi — Frances Taylor
  • Ewan McGregor — Dave Braden
  • Michael Stuhlbarg — Harper Hamilton
  • LaKeith Stanfield — Junior
  • Austin Lyon — Justin
  • Jeffrey Grover — Gil Evans
  • Joshua Jessen — Bill Evans
  • Theron Brown — Herbie Hancock
  • JT Thigpen — Paul Chambers
  • David Kettlehake — Cab Driver
  • Mark Angel II — Driver and Background Pedestrian
  • Derek Snow — Harold Lovett, Miles' lawyer
  • Jon "Swing" McHale — himself
  • Morgan Wolk — Erica
  • Mark Turkeltaub — Cop #1
  • John Griffin — Cop #2
  • Mike Dennis — Beat Cop


Don Cheadle
  Films     Film actor    Ocean's Eleven  (2001) · Hotel Rwanda  (2004) · Ocean's Twelve  (2004) · Crash  (2004) · Ocean's Thirteen  (2007) · Darfur Now  (2007) · Traitor  (2008) · Iron Man 2  (2010) · Iron Man 3  (2013) ·  (2015) · Space Jam: A New Legacy  (2021) 
  Film Director     (2015)
  Film Producer    Crash  (2004) · Traitor  (2008) · Miles Ahead  (2015)
  Television series     House of Lies  (2012–2016)