Miles Davis – Tutu: Deluxe Edition – review

(Warner Jazz)Marcus Miller's Tutu Revisited (reviewed last week) is an unmistakably funky, live-band tribute to 1986's Tutu album. This package contains the original, studio-concocted Miles Davis set that Miller mostly composed. There's also a previously unreleased gig from that year's Nice Jazz festival, delivered by a powerful octet including the late Bob Berg on tenor sax. As liner-note writer Ashley Kahn points out, I made an about-turn over this music in the 80s, from first doubting it as b...

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