Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music. Davis adopted a variety of musical directions in a roughly five-decade career that kept him at the forefront of many major stylistic developments in jazz.

• 40th Anniversary Edition
• Limited Numbered Edition (2000 units)
• LP 180 Gram Vinyl
• Smokey Gray Colored Vinyl
• Pressed at Record Industry, Holland
• Gatefold Cover

Decoy is a 1984 album by the famous jazz musician Miles Davis, recorded in 1983. Robert Irving III on keyboards took over the role that Miles had assumed with a true sense of harmony and only a rudimentary 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 subsequently took over and the jazz tradition, reflected by Scofield’s angularities, Marsalis’ freedom of tone, and the breadth of Miles’ playing that had recovered its full power.

Decoy is available as a 40th anniversary edition of 2000 individually numbered copies on smokey coloured vinyl, housed in a gatefold sleeve.

Musicians:

Drum Programming – Robert Irving III
Drums – Al Foster
Electric Bass – Darryl "The Munch" Jones
Guitar – John Scofield
Percussion – Mino Cinelu
Soprano Saxophone – Bill Evans, Branford Marsalis
Synthesizer – Miles Davis, Robert Irving III
Trumpet – Miles Davis

Track Listing:

1. Decoy
2. Robot 415
3. Code M.D.
4. Freaky Deaky
5. What It Is
6. That's Right
7. That's What Happened

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