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Article: Miles Ahead: A Jazz Road Trip

Part 1: Before the First Mile

by Billie Eidson
October 5, 2026

Chapters 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 A Note at the Beginning This winter, I'm taking the long way. Not the fastest route. Not the ...

Article: Live Review

The Tension Is Where the Music Lives: Miles Davis at 100, Part 3

by Kofi Adjepong-Boateng
August 26, 2026

Herbie Hancock Celebrates Miles Davis Hollywood Bowl Los Angeles, CA August 19, 2026 The Hollywood Bowl began as a picnic ground called Daisy Dell, a canyon chosen for its acoustics, willed into being largely by women, chief among them Artie Mason Carter, a music teacher who believed music was for everyone ...

News: Recording

Backgrounder: Miles Davis - Miles Ahead, 1957

July 26, 2024

Miles Davis's Miles Ahead: Miles +19 for Columbia is one of jazz's most exquisite orchestral albums. The LP was arranged by Gil Evans, who, with Davis, selected nine jazz songs plus an Evans-Davis original and dressed them up in a modernist, Thornhillian style. The result is spectacular. Davis on flugelhorn is gentle and at times even ...

Article: Interview

Miles Comes To The Big Screen; Nephew Vincent Wilburn Approves

by R.J. DeLuke
October 19, 2015

Sometimes a comment made without serious intent can start the wheels of fate. Many Miles Davis fans know there has been a Miles Davis movie in the works for some time. Different proposals emerged over the years, none of them coming to light for varying reasons. Now, however, all Miles fans know that it's ...

Article: Film Review

Don Cheadle's "Miles Ahead"

by Solomon J. LeFlore
October 13, 2015

Miles Ahead, in which the Academy Award winning actor portrays the legendary trumpeter, marks the directorial debut of Don Cheadle, who co-wrote the script.The independently financed production was shot in Cincinnati. Co-starring with Don Cheadle are Ewan McGregor, Michael Stuhlbarg and Emayatzy Corinealdi. The production capped a nine year journey to the big screen ...

News: TV / Film

Miles on Monday: First reviews of Miles Ahead

October 12, 2015

With the debut this past weekend of Don Cheadle's film Miles Ahead at the New York Film Festival, this week's Miles Davis news is full of items about the long-awaited movie. On the eve of the Festival, New York Times film critic A.O. Scott thought Miles Ahead could be an Oscar contender, writing, “Anyone who wants ...

Album

Miles Ahead

By The Scottish National Jazz Orchestra

Label: Spartacus Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Springville; The Maids of Cadiz; The Duke; My Ship; Miles Ahead; Blues for Pablo; New Rhumba; The Meaning of the Blues; Lament; I Don

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Article: Album Review

The Scottish National Jazz Orchestra: Miles Ahead

Read "Miles Ahead" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
July 25, 2003

If you’ve ever wondered how those classic Miles Davis / Gil Evans collaborations from the late ’50s might have sounded had Miles laid aside the mute and played open trumpet, here’s a proximate likeness from Canadian trumpeter Ingrid Jensen, accompanied by the excellent Scottish National Jazz Orchestra. These are Evans’ groundbreaking arrangements, performed in ...

Album

Miles Ahead

By Miles Davis

Label: Columbia Records
Released: 1958
Track listing: Springsville; The Maids of Cadiz; The Duke; My Ship; Miles Ahead; Blues for Pablo; New Rhumba; Medley Pt. 1: The Meaning of the Blues; Medley Pt. 2: Lament; I Don't Wanna Be Kissed.