Miles Davis - Decoy
- Decoy
- Robot 415
- Code M.D
- Freaky Deaky
- What It Is
- That's Right
- That's What Happened
- Format
- Vinyl LP
- Genre
- Jazz
- Catalog No.
- MOVLP3760
- Tracks
- 7
- Colour
- Smoke
- Pressing
- 180gColored Vinyl
- Edition
- Limited Edition
Limited edition of 2000 numbered copies on smokey coloured 180-gram audiophile vinyl. Decoy is a 1984 album by the famous jazz musician Miles Davis, re- corded in 1983. Robert Irving III on keyboards took over the role that Miles had assumed with a true sense of harmony and only a rudi- mentary mastery of synthetic sounds and movements. Irving shared the responsibilities of directing with the trumpet player's nephew Vince Wilburn, Jr., but Al Foster continued to lead the tempo. John Scofield drew the funk of bassist Darryl Jones in the direction of chromatic abstraction. The two tracks that he cowrote with Miles are fragments of solos, ""That's What Happened"" reprising the beginning of his solo on ""Speak"" (Star People). Decoy offered a good balance between the dominant funk that sub- sequently took over and the jazz tradition, reflected by Scofield's angularities, Marsalis' freedom of tone, and the breadth of Miles' playing that had recovered it's full power.
- Decoy
- Robot 415
- Code M.D.
- Freaky Deaky
- What It Is
- That's Right
- That's What Happened
- Format
- Vinyl LP
- Genre
- Jazz
- Tracks
- 7
This record is self produced by Miles himself! Without long time production collaborator Teo Macero, Miles chases new directions with this 1984 recording. Miles allowed keyboardist Robert Irving and guitar legend John Sco eld to write most of the material on the LP.
The record is dripping with some of the new sounds of synths which makes this a very unique entry in the Miles catalog.
Decoy features John Sco eld on guitar, Robert Irving on synths and programming, Darryl Jones on bass, Al Foster on drums, Mino Cinelu on percussion, Bill Evans on sax, and guest appearances from Branford Marsalis.
