Imagine walking into a vault.
Not of gold. Not of jewels.
But of unreleased tapes from Miles Davis himself.
That's exactly what pianist Robert Glasper did.
And he says it changed how he thinks about music — forever.
What struck him wasn't the genius.
It was the fearlessness.
Even the discarded fragments. Even the messy experiments.
All of it screamed one thing:
👉 Never repeat yourself.
Glasper has just been tapped to compose the score for Miles & Juliette — a period romance produced by none other than Mick Jagger through Jagged Films.
The cast is stacked:
Production is set to kick off in LA later this year.
Paris. 1949.
A 22-year-old Miles steps off a plane and into a different universe.
No segregation. No suffocation.
Just a city that treated him like royalty.
He meets Juliette Gréco. They fall hard.
The romance was brief. The imprint, permanent.
Gréco later said she didn't even notice Miles was Black — because in that Paris milieu, it simply didn't stand out.
You can still hear those weeks in Miles' early recordings. A tenderness. A lyricism.
This isn't his first Miles rodeo. It's his third.
And Glasper doesn't sample jazz into hip-hop the lazy way.
He says hip-hop grew from jazz like a branch from a trunk.
His job is just to make that memory audible.
His 2024 album Code Derivation does something wild:
Every track appears twice — once played live by his jazz band, then immediately flipped into a hip-hop production.
Same song. Two bodies. One bloodline.
It earned him another Grammy nomination. Because of course it did.
Most tributes feel like museums.
Glasper's feel like conversations.
A living genius and a dead one — still finding new things to say to each other.
And when Miles & Juliette finally lands, you won't just hear a score.
You'll hear two restless spirits meeting in Paris, 77 years apart.
That's all for now!
