Miles DavisFilmography

John Coltrane: Impressions of Coltrane

Actors: John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Eric Dolphy, McCoy Tyner, Elvin Jones

Play Your Own Thing: A Story of Jazz in Europe

Actors: Jan Garbarek, Django Bates, Antonello Salis, Gianluigi Trovesi, Paul Kuhn

Synopsis: Take a voyage through the history of European jazz in this musical meditation on the origins, growth, and exciting shifts in direction that came to define the endless search for that ever-elusive "voice of one's own." As musicians from both sides of the Atlantic began working in unison, jazz Read More

Beef: The Series [TV Series]

Crew: Featured Music

Synopsis: A coproduction of the BET network and filmmaker-musical producer QDIII (aka Quincy Jones III, Beef: The Series offered insight and intimate detail vis-à-vis the many "celebrity conflicts" which permeated showbiz in general and the Hip Hop field in particular. Amoong those featured were the Read More

Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Patricia Ree Gilbert, Don Fellows

Synopsis: This odd film was shot in 1967 but wasn't released until 1991. The reality of the production is quite amazing. The director, who up until then had only filmed documentaries, decided that he wanted to provoke his actors and crew beyond their level of tolerance so that they would in some fashion Read More

Miles Electric: A Different Kind of Blue

Synopsis: Widely considered one of the landmark albums in history and the starting point for jazz-rock fusion, Miles Davis' {^Bitches Brew} ranked as one of the one hundred greatest albums of all time in a Rolling Stone magazine poll published in 1987. Miles Electric: A Different Kind of Blue captures Davis Read More

The Miles Davis Story

Synopsis: First aired on BBC Channel 4, The Miles Davis Story is a two-hour documentary investigating the life of the infamous jazz legend. British producer/director Mike Dibb provides classic performances, archival footage, and interviews with numerous musicians who worked with Davis, including Clark Read More

Message to Love: The Isle of Wight Festival

Synopsis: For about a year after the Woodstock Music and Art Fair in 1969, it seemed as though everyone wanted to stage a rock festival. However, The Rolling Stones' disastrous Altamont free concert (documented in the film Gimme Shelter) forever tarnished the image of the rock festival in the U.S., while in Read More

Dingo

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Miles Davis, Colin Friels, Bernadette Lafont, Helen Buday, Joe Petruzzi

Synopsis: Jazz great Miles Davis makes his acting debut and farewell playing an inspirational jazz trumpeter in this lively drama that centers on a young Australian country boy who dreams of becoming just like him. Unfortunately, some dreams are never realized, and the boy grows up to become a dingo trapper Read More

Miles & Quincy: Live at Montreux

Synopsis: Miles Davis was a restless musical innovator who had little use for revisiting the music he had made in the past, but in the summer of 1991, Miles made an exception. Teaming up with Quincy Jones, Miles Davis appeared at the Montreux Jazz Festival with Jones directing the Gil Evans Orchestra, the Read More

Jazz Masters Vintage Collection, Vol. 2

Synopsis: This performance video covers some great television jazz programs that include Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Ben Webster, Ahmad Jamal and others. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Listen Up!: The Lives of Quincy Jones

Actors: Quincy Jones, Frank Sinatra, Miles Davis

Synopsis: The extraordinary life of Quincy Jones -- one of the 20th century's most influential and talented composers, musicians and music producers -- provides the basis of this offbeat, free-form documentary tribute. With little regard for formal timelines and traditional documentary biography methods Read More

Mo' Better Blues

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Denzel Washington, Spike Lee, Wesley Snipes, Joie Lee, Cynda Williams

Synopsis: Spike Lee's 1990 directing effort is a jazz film, the story of a fictional trumpeter named Bleek Gilliam (Denzel Washington). He leads a quintet at the Beneath the Underground club with a flashy saxophonist named Shadow Henderson (Wesley Snipes). Though Shadow takes a few too many solos Read More

Miles Davis: Miles in Paris

Synopsis: Miles Davis was not only one of the most innovative and influential artists in the history of jazz, he was a forward-thinking musician who continued performing right up to the final days of his life. Davis was in fine form in November 1989 (less than two years before his death) when he performed Read More

Scrooged

Actors: Bill Murray, Karen Allen, John Forsythe, John Glover, Bobcat Goldthwait, Carol Kane

Synopsis: A darkly comic and surreal contemporization of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, this effects-heavy Bill Murray holiday vehicle from 1988 sees the former SNL funnyman assuming the role of television executive Frank Cross, the meanest and most depraved man on earth. Cross will stoop to unheard Read More

Miles Davis: Live in Munich

Actors: Miles Davis

Synopsis: One of the single most influential figures in the history of modern jazz, Miles Davis was an artist who staked out his own sonic territory from the first note he played to the last moment of his life, and this video finds Miles and his group in stellar form during a 1988 visit to Europe. Miles Read More

Siesta

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Ellen Barkin, Gabriel Byrne, Julian Sands, Isabella Rossellini, Martin Sheen

Synopsis: Sky diver Clare (Ellen Barkin) wakes up disheveled and almost naked in Spain. She has left her husband Del (Martin Sheen) in Death Valley in order to find her former lover Augustine (Gabriel Byrne). She may have committed a murder, or it may all be fantasy. This film, directed by Mary Lambert is Read More

Street Smart

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Christopher Reeve, Morgan Freeman, Kathy Baker, Mimi Rogers, Jay Patterson

Synopsis: Jonathan Fisher (Christopher Reeve) is a newspaper reporter who becomes a celebrity when he writes a fictitious exposé on prostitution. The story of the high-living pimp is too close a resemblance to real-life flesh pedlar Fast Black (Morgan Freeman), and Jonathan is jailed when he refuses to turn Read More

Miles Davis: That's What Happened - Live in Germany 1987

Actors: Miles Davis, Kenny Garrett, Joseph "Foley" McCreary, Adam Holzman, Bobby Irving

Synopsis: This concert program by legendary jazzman Miles Davis captures a live performance by the horn player, recorded in Munich in 1987, as well as interview footage with the artist. ~ Cammila Albertson, All Movie Guide Read More

Absolute Beginners

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Eddie O'Connell, Patsy Kensit, David Bowie, James Fox, Ray Davies

Synopsis: The rise of teen culture in 1950s Britain provides the backdrop for Julien Temple's unconventional rock musical Absolute Beginners. The film centers on Colin, an 18-year-old with a talent for photography and a fondness for the neon nightlife of British jazz clubs. He also is in love with Crepe Read More

Masters of American Music: Miles Ahead - The Music of Miles Davis

Synopsis: "Masters of American Music" brings you three decades of music from Miles Davis. Features film of his performances and his work with musicians including Gil Evans, John Coltrane, Tony Williams and Herbie Hancock. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Prime Cuts: Jazz and Beyond

Trumpet Kings

Miles Davis: Live in Montreal

Actors: Miles Davis

Synopsis: Jazz legend Miles Davis is captured performing in Montreal on this video. The man performs a half dozen songs including "One Phone Call", "Human Nature", "Something's on Your Mind", "Time After Time", "Code M.D.", and "Jean Pierre". The DVD release of the concert includes a biographical timeline Read More

Die Ruckseite des Mondes

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Saturday Night Live: George Kennedy

Actors: George Kennedy, Miles Davis

Synopsis: This 1981 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by George Kennedy and features musical guest Miles Davis. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

All You Need is Love: The Story of Popular Music: Jungle Music (Jazz)

Actors: Charles Mingus, Charlie "Bird" Parker, Chick Corea, Count Basie, Dave Brubeck

Synopsis: This documentary about the history of popular music in America focuses on the evolution of jazz music that took place throughout the South, taking a look at the broader musical principles that first set the style of music apart. ~ Cammila Albertson, All Movie Guide Read More

Jack Johnson

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Brock Peters

Synopsis: Brock Peters narrates and Miles Davis provides the musical score of the feature-length documentary Jack Johnson. Using stills, rare film clips and the occasional interview, director William Cayton fashions a commanding, poignant portrait of the black boxing champion who held the heavyweight title Read More

Miles Davis: Live at the Berkshire Music Center

Actors: Miles Davis

Miles Davis: Around Midnight

Actors: Miles Davis

Synopsis: This Miles Davis-headlined performance film combines footage from two separate concerts with Davis on trumpet, Herbie Hancock on piano, Wayne Shorter on tenor sax, Tony Williams on drums and Ron Carter on bass. One was mounted and filmed at Stathalle, Karlsruhe, Germany, in November of '67, and Read More

Miles Davis: The Cool Jazz Sound

Actors: Miles Davis

Synopsis: When it comes to jazz, there's no name as instantly recognizable as legendary trumpet man Miles Davis. Recorded in 1959 and newly re-mastered to take advantage of the high quality made possible by the DVD format, this performance captures the master of jazz in his prime -- bringing the performance Read More

Miles Davis Quintet: The Sound of Miles Davis

Synopsis: Miles and friends get together and play some tunes. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Ascenseur Pour L'Echafaud

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly, Lino Ventura, Jean Wall, Felix Marten, Yori Bertin

Synopsis: The feature-film debut of famed director Louis Malle is an interesting, modern film noir with the classic theme of lovers plotting to kill the husband and make it look like suicide (reminiscent of The Postman Always Rings Twice). Jeanne Moreau, as Florence Carala, gives an astonishing Read More