Miles Davis - Miles Ahead [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (2016)

The release of the movie MILES AHEAD, Don Cheadle's wildly entertaining and moving exploration of Miles Davis, will be accompanied by this new soundtrack featuring musical highlights from Miles' career and new recordings overseen by Grammy Award-winning jazz/hip-hop artist Robert Glasper.

This is a perfect primer on Davis' career for the new fan and a brilliant audio keepsake of the film for those who've studied his works inside and out. The album features 11 tracks from across Miles' catalogue from 1956 to 1981, select dialogue from the film featuring Cheadle in character, and five original compositions written, co-written, produced or performed exclusively for MILES AHEAD by Robert Glasper. These cues include "What's Wrong with That?" a jam that closes the movie imagining Cheadle as Miles playing in the present day with guest performers Glasper, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Gary Clark, Jr. and Esperanza Spalding; plus "Gone 2015," an end-credits song featuring guest verses from rapper Pharoahe Monch. Cheadle also pens new liner notes for the album discussing the selection and creation of the songs on the soundtrack.

Tracklist:

1. Miles Ahead
2. Dialogue: “It takes a long time…” (*)
3. So What
4. Taylor Made – Taylor Eigisti
5. Dialogue: “Listen, you talk too goddam much…” (*)
6. Solea (excerpt)
7. Seven Steps To Heaven (edit)
8. Dialogue: “If you gonna tell a story…”(*)
9. Nefertiti (edit)
10. Frelon Brun
11. Dialogue: “Sometimes you have these thoughts…”(*)
12. Duran (take 6) (edit)
13. Dialogue: “You own my music…”(*)
14. Go Ahead John (part two C)
15. Black Satin (edit)
16. Dialogue: “Be musical about this shit…”(*)
17. Prelude #II
18. Dialogue: “Y’all listening to them…?”(*)
19. Junior’s Jam – Robert Glasper, Keyon Harrold, Marcus Strickland
20. Francessence – Robert Glasper, Keyon Harrold, Elena Pinderhughes
21. Back Seat Betty (excerpt)
22. Dialogue: “I don’t like the word jazz…” (*)
23. What’s Wrong With That? – Don Cheadle, Robert Glasper, Gary Clark, Jr., Herbie Hancock, Keyon Harrold, Antonio Sanchez, Esperanza Spaulding, Wayne Shorter
24. Gone 2015 – Robert Glasper, Keyon Harrold, Pharoahe Monch

(*) from the soundtrack of the film, Don Cheadle as Miles Davis
All other tracks performed by Miles Davis, except where noted

Soundtrack album produced by
Don Cheadle, Steve Berkowitz, Ed Gerrard & Robert Glasper

Soundtrack Executive Producers:
Don Cheadle, Erin Davis, Darryl Porter &, Vince Wilburn