He was often vituperative about white people, but his closest collaborator was Evans, and he mentored white musicians from throughout his career, from Bill Evans to John Scofield.
Baker, a white trumpeter and singer, affected a similar vibrato-less tone to Davis and played some of the same ballads. Davis was harsh about it in his book. Both portray famous trumpeters. Both focus on periods of exile. In both cases, the leading men love and lose a beautiful woman because of their lack of self-control. Davis even appears in Born to Be Blue , mostly characteristically dismissive of Baker. And both films grapple with drugs. Davis also wrote that the press focused too much on the drug problems of black musicians like himself and Parker while ignoring white junkies like Baker and the saxophonist Stan Getz.
No one will lodge such an objection against Born to Be Blue. The movie shows Baker trying—and, for a time, with the help of his girlfriend—kicking heroin. But at the end of the film, on the cusp of a high-pressure comeback gig, Baker flinches and relapses. His career is back, but his woman leaves. Although he married two more times after their divorce, she was both his major muse and true love.
On that same page, however, he recounted the reasons he lost her in Like in "Miles Ahead," he did hallucinate that someone was in the house, grabbing Taylor and a butcher knife as he frantically searched.
And just like in the movie, she mimicked his madness, playing along to diffuse the scary situation. In the movie, she runs from the house. She actually got him to call the police and left after they arrived. Davis also did ask the on-the-rise dancer and actress to quit "West Side Story," her breakout Broadway role. Taylor talks about it in the documentary, 's "The Miles Davis Story.
Cheadle says almost the exact same thing to the actress portraying Taylor, Emayatzy Corineald. But in a bath tub. After he was arrested. Google "Miles Davis and arrest" and the images that answer that request look like they are stills from the movie. The wildly-published picture of Taylor in her head-to-toe white ensemble at the 54th Precinct no doubt inspired Corinealdi's wardrobe selection. The actress' look has a bit more glitter and glitz than the real-life Taylor. Davis described the Aug.
Like the film, he exits the Birdland in New York City to escort a "pretty white girl" to a cab between sets at the iconic jazz club. Instead, the musician replies that he's working downstairs. That's his name in bright lights on the marquee. The officer stumbles. A crowd gathers. And so does another white detective.
He doesn't use words like his brother in blue. Just his billy club. Davis went to jail that night with a head wound. And charges for resisting arrest and assault and battery of a police officer.
He left the next morning with his wife and his lawyer, a scene depicted in "Miles Ahead," as well. The Essential Celine Dion.
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Whether the farcical nature of these scenes is a redeeming feature or just a sign of desperation on the part of the creative team is hard to say. Mercifully, the crime story is primarily a framing device. Not untypically for jazz films, much of Miles Ahead is told in flashbacks, with Davis reminiscing about his past glories covering roughly the years The ostensible focus is on his relationship with his first wife, Frances Taylor Emayatzy Corinealdi , the tragic failure of which is implicitly blamed for his crisis.
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