Anecdotes

Miles Davis really called up Phil Schaap on the air and told him he talked too much.

Dave Braden, The Rolling Stone reporter, is entirely fictional. In an interview with Rolling Stone, published March 14, 2016, Ewan McGregor said "It's less a Miles biopic than an attempt to cast Miles in a caper flick that he *might* like to have been part of."

In an interview, Don Cheadle said he chose to shoot the film entirely in Cincinnati, Ohio, because "the architecture and the look here can approximate the era that is being shot in Manhattan." Cheadle filmed at over 30 locations in downtown Cincinnati, Over-the-Rhine, the West End, and Northside.

Don Cheadle's feature film directorial debut.

Originally titled "Kill The Trumpet Player."