Welcome to the New York Times Popcast, your 30th Street studios of musical analysis and film grammar. I'm your host Ben Rallif. Oh, uh, it's a lot.

Ah, uh, a, uh, You're listening to Miles Davis's Go Ahead John from the record Big Fun with the insane John McLaughlin solo and the panning back and forth between

the channels the stereo channels I mean come on it's a great. Used in a scene in the new Miles Davis biopic called Miles

Ahead, which we are here to talk about today with Nate Chinan. Hey, Nate. I'll play it and tell you what it is later.

Oh, what, it's going to be one of those. Can we just, we can use Miles Davis quotes for the entire thing.

You know what, let's not. I feel like we need to rise above.

In this movie which was directed by Don Cheetle and stars Don Cheetle as Miles Davis and was

made using crowd funding and stuff like that, right?

I mean, he really put himself forward.

He had to make this movie and he did it by any means possible.

And he gave interviews about how, in fact, the reality of the situation in Hollywood is that

you can't just make a movie about a black genius trumpet player.

You have to make it a buddy film with a handsome white co-star.

As he did.

As he did, which I actually actually I loved the forthrightness of that interview those

interviews I felt that they were sort of milesian and at the same time I was disappointed that it was a buddy movie with a handsome white

co-star.

But so it was more than a buddy movie, was it not?

OK, well, let's say why tell me

Well, I mean how would you characterize this this film? It's sort of a buddy pick. It's kind of a heist movie Anyways sort of a blaxploitation film it's kind of a bio pick

it's maybe some sort of fever dream of artistic impersonation.

It really kind of doesn't sit easily

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