Miles Davis

For more than a quarter-century Miles Davis has personified the modern jazz artist: hunched forward, muted trumpet jammed into microphone, eyes clamped shut, forehead glistening with perspiration - the man with the horn who gives every ounce he's got... while Davis has piled up one staggering achievement after another, his career has also been punctuated by the racism, illness, drug addiction, accidents and brushes with the law that plague the ''jazz life''.... Miles Davis offers the most complete portrait of Davis that we have had...