Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool Review: Mesmerizing Film Trumpets the Jazz Great, Warts and All
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tvguide.comIn an age where celebrity funerals are de rigueur, the PBS documentary Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool (which premiered last year at Sundance) fits right in and feels like a home-going service three decades in the making.
Music industry titans such as Quincy Jones, Herbie Hancock, Carlos Santana, and Clive Davis share humorous and revelatory anecdotes about the jazz great while saxophonist Wayne Shorter, bass guitarist Marcus Miller, and bassist Ron Carter recall what it was like working with the brilliant but temperamental artist in this American Masters installment.
Filmmaker Stanley Nelson does a wonderful job tracking how Davis ascended from the awkward and diminutive middle-class son of a dentist in East St.
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