Miles Davis Movie Vs Movie

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The Miles Ahead movie is very different from the previous jazz performances I attended, of course that was anticipated considering it's a movie about Miles Davis not an actual live concert. To start, I did not like this movie. To me, the movie portrayed Miles Davis as a bad-ass, ready to kill man, instead of a wonderful performer which he was and still is.
The Evolution of Jazz book depicted Miles Davis differently than the movie did, in the textbook they showed Miles as a musician ready to face any challenges, bring about the best music he could, and always bringing in new styles of jazz but, in the movie they showed him as a very grouchy man. The movie focused on his four years of not producing music with some flashbacks of his life and

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