MILES DAVIS — Tutu (review)

MILES DAVIS — Tutu album cover Album · 1986 · Pop/Art Song/Folk Buy this album from MMA partners
4/5 ·
frankbernardi22
"Tutu" could have been Miles' last prison. A luxury prison, of course. Interior designer Marcus Miller, man - machine with a special taste for living instruments (bass clarinet and soprano among the others) thinks of a virtually immense house for the Master, the Magus and so on. That is the new playground, the brand new luxury kindergarten for the trumpeter with his load of sadness, solitude, cosmic melancholic moods (classic Miles' stuff, there is nothing new, under this point of view, in the record's grooves). But planned and placed in the middle of 80's, Miles' "Tutu" does nothing to hide the times. Or, better: does everything to lacerate the mask of optimism and forced smiles (Miles don't smile anymore). On the other side, Miller, so young, so gifted, is just a little worried because he's running the risk to suffocate the chief: no fear, says Miles, once I had Gil Evans on my side, and those were the times of deep communion. Today, in plastic times (and plastic has a resonance of its own - underlines Miles), Marcus Miller is the best for a jazz hero. The only rested alive. Mixed by different hands, nonetheless "Tutu" keeps trumpet level low enough to give Miles the ease of exploring the new interiors without agitation. All rooms comfortable but he's still looking for the windows or the fire ladder. Does he knows the name of the house is prison?
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