Miles Davis - Tutu

This arrived yesterday.

It’s the 2024 fancy-bollocks re-issue on 180-Gram vinyl, cut from the original masters by Kevin Gray at Cohearant Audio, an Optimal pressing, limited edition, numbered...good for what ails ya.

It would be tempting to suggest that none of that stuff actually makes that much difference, but it does. It really does. It sounds magnificent.

Also, the artwork on this album is stunning: monochrome portraits of Davis, by veteran Vogue photographer, Irving Penn. The actual cover material is really high quality as well, which makes the artwork really stand out.

This is a polarising album. You’ll either love or hate its Marcus Miller production, which at times sounds like an explosion in a vintage synth warehouse. I fucking love it. And he puts that muted trumpet right up front.

Davis covers Scritti Politti’s Perfect Way, which I’d swear I’d never heard before I played it on YouTube at work the other day.

And the title track reminds me of Gil Scott-Heron’s Angel Dust.

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