Added: Jul 10, 2008
From: OvationTV
Duration: 4:1
A definitive portrait of the legendary trumpeter Miles Davis, the best known and most influential jazz musician of the last 50 years. "Great musicians are like great fighters" said Davis. In his public persona he often came across as scornful and aggressive and his life, vividly recounted in his 1989 autobiography, was fractured by racism, illness, drug addiction and brushes with the law. THE MILES DAVIS STORY explores the private man behind the public image, but the film's primary focus is the music, a subject on which contributor Ian Carr, British trumpeter and acclaimed Davis biographer, is an expert. The brilliant musicians who played with him share their insights and memories, as do members of his family and friends, some talking publicly for the very first time. Interwoven throughout are recordings and archive sequences of major performances, representing all the most significant phases in a career that spanned five decades of jazz history, from be-bop to hip-hop. With a mission to "Make Life Creative," Ovation TV is a multiplatform network focused on entertaining, inspiring and engaging the artist in all of us by offering original and acquired programming focused on art, culture and personal creativity. The network is distributed via cable, satellite and telco, and is complemented with its popular broadband website (www.OvationTV.com).
Channel: Entertainment
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Rating: 5.00 (4 ratings) Views: 1018' favoriteCount='7 Comments: 2
malidrot Says:
Sep 28, 2008 - he's got some brilliant tunes
mloaks Says:
Sep 18, 2008 - no other