Miles On The Comeback

When Davis returned to an active musical life in 1980, he had a new band and a sound that was contemporary but not so abstract. The Man With A Horn was his debut recording from this period and brought Miles back into the limelight. We Want Miles captured his new touring band live in concert and brought more young fans into Miles' world as a result of his touring. Decoy and You're Under Arrest are studio albums that showed Miles was still listening to contemporary black music and making it very personal. Aura was Miles' last great recording, using an orchestra and performing a suite written specially for him. Unlike his other recordings from the Eighties, Aura is a mostly acoustic album that brought back memories of an earlier Miles to the ears of his fans.