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.
