Included here is Davis' Parthian shot for a major label, the final five studio albums he made for the Warner Bros. label, to whom he moved in controversial circumstances in 1986 and remained with until his death on 28 September 1991. It was a move that caused shock waves in the recording industry, since Davis had spent just over 31 years with the Columbia label and had recorded some of the greatest jazz recordings ever made. The dramatic Irving Penn photograph on the cover of Tutu announced his new label affiliation, in essence a collaboration with bassist/producer Marcus Miller, and is far the best album of his post-furlough career and portents looked good for this abrupt career change. Sadly these hopes were not to be fulfilled. Siesta, made in 1987, is the soundtrack for the film of the same name and sees Davis as, in effect, a featured soloist on his own album, not even appearing on every track, but used as colour along with guitarists Earl Klugh, John Scofield, flautist James Walker and producer Miller himself. Amandla from 1988 was testimony to his mysterious allure, with Davis and alto saxophonist Kenny Garrett left to decorate a series of glittering surfaces created by Marcus Miller. Dingo, another so-so soundtrack for a so-so film, is an oddity in the Davis discography, Davis again a ‘guest soloist’ sharing solo chores with trumpeter Chuck Findley. Finally, Doo-Bop, his last studio album, is unlike anything he had undertaken previously. A collaboration with DJ/Producer Easy Mo Bee who created a series of sampled backdrops, Davis simply dropped his trumpet in whenever he liked what he heard, plus two tracks culled from Davis' experimental ‘Rubber Band’ of the 1980s, from which his solos were lifted. No personnel details are given with this set, no liner notes are provided, just cardboard facsimiles of the original album covers housing each CD – albeit at a budget price. Other than Tutu – a latter day Davis classic – these albums are testimony to his diminishing creativity and execution, the work of an artist striving to be au courant but glimpsing signs of his own mortality.