A ‘new old’ set, or the more fashionable term of ‘lost’ album? Neither one is entirely appropriate for this uneven bag of odds and ends from Davis 1980s output. Some of the original tracks have been remixed and overdubbed with new contributions from the likes of vocalists Ledisi and Medina Johnson, which means that the music ends up straddling the decades. The result is that, in a way not too dissimilar to 1992's Doo Bop, most of it feels like jazz attempting to come to terms with hip-hop but not quite reaching the core of the newer genre. At times the grooves are simply not hard enough to really bring the funk as it is heard by listeners in a post-breakbeat world, at times the keys and synth bass overwhelm Davis’ horn, or at least the more graceful, misty subtleties of which he was capable. There are nonetheless glimpses of what might have been a successful marriage of Miles and producer Vince Wilburn Jnr on a piece such as ‘Maze’, with its spiral staircase motifs and fizzing rhythm. But, for the most part, the components around the leader sound too clinically bolted-on. It makes you appreciate just how skilled Marcus Miller's writing and arranging was on the hallowed trilogy of Tutu, Amandla and Siesta, and that the last phase of Miles’ life just remains a teasing question which the world still seems to be attempting to answer.