And yet, it wasn't. There was no getting up to turn the album over and while Paolo Fresu gave a perfect account of the music, his assertion that he would stay close to the Miles Davis original on the 1957 Miles Ahead suite didn't entirely stand up. Fresu sounded like Fresu, with his Sardinian soul glowing through his playing, and that was cause for celebration in itself.
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