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Title: So, about that trumpet...
Review: Miles' first studio album after a six-year retirement (though he had previously released the live double We Want Miles) is essentially an attempt to jump on the trends - this is more of an '80s funk record than a jazz album, especially displayed on the title track, with grating if smoothly delivered vocals. Which means this is mainly ponderous and trivial - take the extended "Back Seat Betty", which makes use of '80s guitar. Hide me. And too much of it is that insulting style we call jazz-pop which brought Kenny G. success- take "Aida" or "Shout". Not a stain on Miles' career, thanks to deep, lengthy grooves "Fat Time" and "Ursula". But one of his least creative.
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