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Jazz’s most famous son is given godly status for his work in the 50s â€" as in Kind of Blue â€" and the 70s â€" as in Bitches Brew. The 80s remains a dubious period of his discography. Tutu casts doubt on that received wisdom. Although it is still dismissed by many as ‘lightweight’ or, worse still, ‘pop-fusion’, the album, whose striking monochrome sleeve stylized the trumpeter’s austere, sculptural, late-years beauty, had something that captured the imagination of many outside of the world of jazz.
And it wasn’t just the romance of Davis coming back to the fray, like some...
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