The nephew of jazz legend Miles Davis is coming to South Africa with Davis’ youngest son, Erin, to launch the documentary Miles Davis: Birth of Cool at the Encounters film festival in Cape Town and Joburg next month, by Pen_Pusha_P
The nephew of jazz legend Miles Davis is coming to South Africa with Davis’ youngest son, Erin, to launch the documentary Miles Davis: Birth of Cool at the Encounters film festival in Cape Town and Johannesburg next month.
“He was my mother’s younger brother. I grew up in Chicago and spending time with him would always involve him giving us tickets to his shows. He introduced me to music,” Wilburn said. “I called him the Miles Davis University because I would learn so much from him about so many things. I was like a sponge around him. I produced for him and played with him.”
The documentary navigates the life and times of Miles Davis, starting with his abusive childhood. “My mom doesn’t ever talk about that. I think a lot of that came out in Uncle Miles’ trumpet,” said Wilburn.“He liked to paint, cook and tend to his horses. He would buy us paint and we’d just do that for the whole day together. He wasn’t really like, grab a ball and shoot hoops with you, but he always showed an interest in our music,” he said.
When his father showed an interest in music as a child, his parents disagreed about which instrument he should play, and his father insisted on the trumpet. Davis was notoriously assaulted by a police officer outside the famous Birdland jazz club in New York in 1959, at a time the city was believed to be a progressive one.
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