The documentary from Stanley Nelson is a gossipy and very musical primer—with more than a few bars of uptight commentary—on the jazz icon
By John Anderson Aug. 29, 2019 4:25 pm ET The opening of Stanley Nelson ’s “Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool” is full of electricity, and false promise. We first see the young, lean, sleek trumpeter/jazz immortal dancing around a boxing ring—wasn’t he always at war with the world? And we hear the words of Davis himself setting up the action.
But it isn’t long before the talking heads enter the picture, the writers and academics contributing banalities and dead weight; if the movie were a band, you’d think the drummer had anemia. It’s one thing for someone like pianist Herbie Hancock to say Davis’s tone was “like a stone skipping across a pond.” That’s poetry. What’s not is theoreticians making grand pronouncements about a musician they clearly see as “important” but remote and historic.
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