Don Cheadle stars as avant garde musician Miles Davis, a trumpeter, bandleader and composer whose forays in and beyond jazz were influential, inspirational, and sometimes inscrutable. His Bitches Brew double album came out in 1970, when I was a teenager – and I was in my 30s before I began to absorb it with anything other than a mixture of awe and confusion. For this movie, Cheadle not only stars as Miles, but directs the film, and co-wrote the screenplay.