It's a puzzle why people praise this mediocre trumpet blower so much. You can hardly hear him without a mute, and the mute is the refuge of the mediocre. Maybe after hearing Chet Baker, he felt ashamed to play without it. His sound is nervous, no doubt reflecting the lousy lifehe must have led. I know he, unfortunately, suffered a lot of prejudice in his lifetime: I bet that when he turned on his tv he didn't see one single black in a sitcom(Today he would hardly see a white! Things are so ridiculous and hypocritical that in one movie Jennifer Connely's character adopted a black boy, the boring Will Smith's son' character). But it's not our fault; we pay to hear good music, not to put up with somebody trying to purge his demons. In one live performance Davis even played with his back toward the audience.We pay for music and deserve better, not this crap.