As a musician I am a huge fan of Miles Davis and I can’t wait to see actor Don Cheadle breathe life into his biopic entitled “Miles Ahead”.

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Unlike the Nina Simone estate, Miles Davis‘ family advocated for Oscar nominee actor Don Cheadle to play the iconic musician in his biopic. It’s been several years with the idea being in the air but the movie is finally here and Don Cheadle is the STAR of the film ‘Miles Ahead’.

When asked about the Miles Davis role Don Cheadle had the following to say,

“I had not been reaching out for this role in any way, shape or form. There was a pronouncement made, I guess — a proclamation — that I was going to play his uncle in a movie.”

The film premiered at the 2015 New York Film Festival and will open in theaters on April 1. Rather than a conventional cradle-to-grave music biopic, Cheadle built the narrative around Davis in 1979, a period of artistic paralysis. Ewan McGregor plays a persistent journalist who intrudes on Davis’s privacy, but becomes his reluctant partner in crime when they have to retrieve a missing tape of valuable session music. Like Davis’s music, their adventure knows no boundaries, and the film flirts with the surreal. In flashbacks, Davis courts and obsesses over dancer Frances Taylor (Emayatzy Corinealdi), and their romance has a major impact on his music.

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It’s going to be DOPE! What do you think?