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Don Cheadle stars and directs this fluid biopic of jazz legend Miles Davis, in which the actor has distanced himself from the term «biopic» much like Davis moved away from the label of «jazz» — and the resulting film plays with the genre while delivering an entertaining insight into the mind of a troubled genius.

Recent highlights include a black and white photo of jazz legend Miles Davis going head - to - head with a small punching bag at Gleason's Gym in 1970.

Don Cheadle gives one of the best performances of his career as jazz legend Miles Davis in Miles Ahead, even if his debut as a director ends up being an unfocused disappointment.

About Blog Marc Myers writes daily on jazz legends and legendary jazz recordings.

When jazz legend John Coltrane first heard Charlie Parker play the saxophone, the music hit him «right between the eyes,» he once said.

Far from your typical musical biopic, Born to Be Blue tells the tragic tale of jazz legend Chet Baker.

Their repertoire ranges from original compositions to covers of jazz legends like Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock.

This year's festival offered performances by jazz legends including Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, and Chick Corea.

This year's festival offered performances by jazz legends including Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, and Chick...

This exhibition from the collection of the National Portrait Gallery features Leonard's iconic images of jazz legends such as Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, Billie Holiday, Thelonious Monk and Sarah Vaughan.

Jazz legend Jimmy Heath will bring his quintet to the Maxwell Theatre on Tuesday, Nov. 14 to kick off the Harris - Horizon Jazz Great Series.

Peter Suschitzky provided the trippy cinematography, and jazz legend Ornette Coleman joined composer Howard Shore on the musical score.

Comedy star Amy Schumer kicks off an arena tour in Milwaukee, while jazz legend Tony Bennett serenades the Riverside Theater.

During one coffee break we discuss the beautiful «old school» timbre of the beloved Bösendorfer grand that jazz legend Oscar Peterson kept in his basement music room.

Jazz legend Stanley Jordan was performing.

Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx is famous for the great jazz legends buried there.

An honors graduate of the Berklee College of Music, Dmitri Matheny vaulted onto the jazz scene in the 1990s as the protégé of jazz legend Art Farmer.

He treasures biscuits in the courtyard of the Soniat House hotel, strolling along Chartres Street, and listening to jazz legends Charmaine Neville and Ellis Marsalis at Preservation Hall.

Jazz Legend Performs Special New Year's Concert in Cannon Beach World renown jazz guitarist John Stowell will make his first live appearance in Cannon Beach at the Cannon Beach History Center & Museum on January 7th.

Watching everyone from jazz legends and West African superstars to local, underground klezmer bands perform outdoors during the annual Jazz Fest, held every summer.

Among his schoolmates were future jazz legends Quincy Jones and Buddy Catlett.

«I was influenced by Miles,» says Whitten of cool jazz legend Miles Davis.

Part 4 — Cecil Taylor — from April 15 to 24 Jazz legend Cecil Taylor (b. 1929) will be celebrated in a series of collective live music performances, he will make together with friends and fellows, which will be the centerpiece of an exhibition dedicated to the history and art career of one of the most skilled, innovative and rule - breaking American musicians.

The exhibit includes photographs capturing various Philadelphia jazz legends, works on paper, fiber, wood and found object sculpture, abstract paintings inspired by the jazz genre and more.

There he formed friendships with New York School artists, Robert Motherwell and Franz Kline, among them, and on the Lower East Side hung out where jazz legends John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, and Charlie Parker performed.

Charles Gaines on drums with noted musicians and jazz legends Wadada Leo Smith on trumpet, Terry Adkins on sax, Louis Lopez with electronics, Nedra Wheeler on bass and AJ Fanning on cello.

Good Morning America's Sam Champion provided welcoming remarks andNew Orleans jazz legend Dr. John performed.

JazzWax About Blog Marc Myers writes daily on jazz legends and legendary jazz recordings.

Jazz legend Chet Baker (Ethan Hawke) searches for love and redemption when he is approached to star in a movie about his own troubled life in order to mount a comeback in the late 1960s.

Their repertoire ranges from original compositions to covers of jazz legends like Miles Davis.

This exhibition features Herman Leonard's iconic images of jazz legends such as Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, Billie Holiday, Thelonious Monk and Sarah Vaughan.

-- MILES AHEAD: Closing the festival will be Don Cheadle's directorial debut in which he also stars as jazz legend Miles Davis.

So it's somewhat refreshing to see Don Cheadle make his directorial debut with what might be called an anti-bio — one that gives the much - deserved big - screen treatment to jazz legend Miles Davis.

Behind him is a who's who of Jazz Legends: Adrian Dantley, «Pistol» Pete, Karl Malone, and John Stockton.

Jazz legend and Grammy - winning musician Herbie Hancock is teaming up with the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School band this month in a performance from which all proceeds will to support the high school and Coral Springs Middle School bands, including the Alex Schachter Scholarship Foundation.

Ethan Hawke stars in another adventurous film about a jazz legend, the Chet Baker fantasia «Born to Be Blue.»

Winner of the 1989 Critics Prize at the Venice Film Festival and nominated for an Academy Award, Let's Get Lost has become an important document in the career of the filmmaker on the life of a jazz legend.

And this year's programming once again presents a hodge - podge of movies that run the gamut from marquee - name Hollywood movies (Paramount's spring thriller A Quiet Place starring Emily Blunt is the opening - night selection) to mash notes from the digital underground, music docs on Southern rockers and free - jazz legends and a Mississippi native named Elvis, the usual midnight - movie psychotronica and a whole lot of beautifully unclassifiable missives from the margins.

A tough, uncompromising take on a jazz legend, lifted by a never - been - better Ethan Hawke — an early contender for Best Actor consideration come awards season.

The jazz legend will perform alongside Paquito D'Rivera, Wycliffe Gordon and the Marjory Stoneman Douglas Jazz Band during a benefit concert for the Alex Schachter Scholarship Foundation at the Coral Springs Center for the Arts.

The daughter of a jazz legend helped students at Hill Central School close out Black History Month with drumming singing, and an admonition to «keep love and energy in your hearts.»

Being named after a jazz legend in a city that has been dubbed the birthplace of the genre may be daunting to some, but Miles wears it well.

In mid-January, the Barbados Jazz Festival is a weeklong event jammed with performances by international artists, jazz legends, and local talent.

Art and the soundtrack are geared around the Seattle music scene, including both contemporary artists and jazz legends.

Award - winning singer - songwriter Jamie Cullum brings his innovative spirit and visionary talent to the Jazz Legends at St. Regis series, which introduces the next generation of jazz greats to guests through live performances at our hotels around the world.

Be sure to swing by first - time exhibitor Jenkins Johnson Gallery, which will be showing Roy DeCarava's photographs of jazz legends and everyday New York scenes from the 1940s through the 1970s.

«It's a watery show,» he said of his concept for «Prospect.4,» which spreads the work of 73 artists across 17 venues and includes Rashid Johnson, Hank Willis Thomas, Njideka Akunyili Crosby and even the jazz legend Louis Armstrong (represented by his collages).