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Studio album by Miles Davis
Released September 29, 1986[1]
Recorded February 6 – March 25, 1986
Studio
Capitol Studios and Ocean Way Recording (Hollywood, CA)Le Gonks (West Hollywood, CA)Clinton Recording Studios and Atlantic Studios (New York, NY)
Genre
Pop jazz[2]funkR&B[3]electronic pop[4]
Length 42:05
Label Warner Bros.
Producer
Marcus MillerTommy LiPuma
Miles Davis chronology
You`re Under Arrest
(1985) Tutu
(1986) Music from Siesta
(1987)

Tutu is an album by jazz trumpeter Miles Davis, released in 1986 by Warner Bros. Records. The album is Miles Davis` tribute to Archbishop Desmond Tutu who was a human rights and anti-apartheid activist.[5] It was recorded primarily at Capitol Studios in Los Angeles and Clinton Recording in New York, except the song `Backyard Ritual`, which was recorded at Le Gonks in West Hollywood.[6] Davis received the 1986 Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Soloist Grammy Award for his performance on the album.[7]

Background
Originally some tracks were planned as a collaboration with Prince. Prince later pulled out for undisclosed reasons, although the two remained firm friends and later collaborated on `Can I Play With U` as well. (Davis later covered `Movie Star` and `Penetration` by Prince.) Davis ultimately worked with bassist/multi-instrumentalist Marcus Miller. Miller wrote and arranged all the songs, except `Tomaas` (co-written by Davis), `Backyard Ritual` (by keyboardist George Duke), and `Perfect Way` (by pop group Scritti Politti). The music is strongly inspired by mid-1980s R&B and funk, with heavy use of synthesizers, sequencers and drum machines. Miller performed the bulk of instrumentation on the album, including bass guitar, synthesizers and drum machines, bass clarinet and soprano saxophone.

As indicated in the notes accompanying the album, Tutu was produced by Tommy LiPuma and Marcus Miller, with the exception of `Backyard Ritual`, which was co-produced by Duke and LiPuma.

The cover was designed by Eiko Ishioka and photographed by Irving Penn. Eiko Ishioka received the 1987 Grammy Award for Best Album Package for her work as the art director.[8] The original vinyl album featured a colored inner sleeve printed with the album credits on one side and a photograph of Davis`s left hand (with middle finger depressed) on the reverse.

All tracks composed by Marcus Miller except where indicated:

`Tutu` – 5:15
`Tomaas` – 5:38 (Davis, Marcus Miller)
`Portia` – 6:18
`Splatch` – 4:46
`Backyard Ritual` – 4:49 (George Duke)
`Perfect Way` – 4:35 (David Gamson, Green Gartside)
`Don`t Lose Your Mind` – 5:49
`Full Nelson` – 5:06

Musicians
Miles Davis – trumpet
Marcus Miller – all other instruments (1–4, 6, 7, 8), additional synthesizer programming, bass guitar (5)
Jason Miles – synthesizer programming
Adam Holzman – additional synthesizer programming, synthesizer solo (4)
Bernard Wright – additional synthesizers (2, 7)
George Duke – all other instruments (5)
Omar Hakim – drums (2), percussion (2)
Paulinho da Costa – percussion (1, 3, 4, 5)
Steve Reid – additional percussion (4)
Michał Urbaniak – electric violin (7)
Production
Tommy LiPuma – executive producer, producer
Marcus Miller – producer (1–4, 6, 7, 8), musical arrangements (1–4, 6, 7, 8)
George Duke – producer (5), musical arrangements (5)
Eric Calvi – engineer (1–4, 6, 7, 8), mixing (2, 6, 7, 8)
Peter Doell – engineer (1–4, 6, 7, 8)
Bill Schnee – mixing (1, 3, 4)
Erik Zobler – engineer (5), mixing (5)
Maureen Thompson – assistant engineer (1, 3, 4)
Eddie Garcia – assistant engineer (2, 6, 7, 8)
Doug Sax – mastering at The Mastering Lab (Hollywood, California)
Larry Fishman – production assistant
Irving Penn – photography
Eiko Ishioka – art direction
Susan Welt – design