Name: Tutu
Brand: Miles Davis

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

7599254909

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Rough Trade Exclusive

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2007-07-23

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Warner Music Group

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

0075992549097

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Miles Davis

Genre GB

Jazz

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Trumpeter, bandleader, composer, and one of the most important figures in jazz music history. Miles Davis adopted a variety of musical directions in his five-decade career that kept him at the forefront of many major stylistic developments in jazz. Born on May 26, 1926 in Alton, Illinois, USA and passed away on September 28, 1991 in Santa Monica, California at the age of 65. He is best known for his seminal modern jazz album "Kind of Blue" (1959), which remains the highest selling jazz album of all time with six million copies sold.Miles Davis studied at an academic school for musicians in NYC where he met Charlie Parker and they started playing together from 1945. In 1948, Miles Davis formed his own ensembles and collaborated with Gil Evans to create The Miles Davis Nonet. Their recordings from 1949 to 1950 resulted in the album "Birth of the Cool" (1957) and laid the foundation for their future collaborations.A pioneer of 'Hard Bop' in the mid-1950s, Miles Davis constantly pushed boundaries throughout his career. In the late 1960s, he ventured into experimenting with electronic instruments and incorporating rock and funk rhythms into his music. Despite health problems leading to a hiatus from playing in the mid-1970s, he made a comeback with an 'electronical' sound in 1980.

in 1985, miles davis' thirty year association with columbia records came to an end and the jazz legend, who managed to reinvent jazz a dozen times over managed to reinvent the price value of jazz recording contracts when he signed with warner brothers. what davis unfortunately didn't seem to do was read past the bottom line and his royalties for songwriting would lie with warner brothers, not with him. as a result, davis refused to compose anything on his own and instead brought his former bass player marcus miller to compose for him. miller wrote compositions for davis and set up a framework in which the trumpeter could solo. the first album resulting from this collaboration, 'tutu', proves to be one of the great records of davis' career, and like 'sketches of spain' before it, provides a powerful launching pad for davis and coaxes out of him one of his best performances.

Tutu

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