I think some of the story was embellished, it was damn near an action/adventure film in parts. for all I know the main plot could have been fan fiction

but Don Cheadle did pretty good as Miles Davis, his love interest in the film Emayatzy Corinealdi is fine https://pmcvariety.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/miles-ahead-nyff-don-cheadle.jpg and it's dope to see people like Robert Glasper and Esperanza Spalding getting closer to "mainstream"