Miles DavisFeaturing: Branford Marsalis, John Scofield
Decoy (LP)
LabelCBS/SonyGenreJazz & Improvisation
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condition (record/cover): NM / NM
Gatefold sleeve. Insert and obi included.
By 1984 the eighties band was fully formed and Miles Davis was leaning hard on synthesisers, electronic drums and the production instincts of Robert Irving III. Decoy is the most abstract record of that period: cold, jittery, full of sequenced textures and sudden dropouts, with John Scofield playing guitar lines that sound like they are being interrupted mid-thought and Darryl Jones holding an implacable bottom. A young Branford Marsalis guests on soprano. Miles plays through a wah-wah, sparingly, and the sparseness is the point. Not the warmest thing he made, and one of the most forward-facing.
Japanese CBS/Sony pressing. Eighties Miles taken on its own terms rather than measured against 1959.
Release notes
Comes with Obi strip. Includes Japanese liner notes. Recorded at Record Plant Studios, N.Y.C. Track A4 Recorded at A&R Studios, N.Y.C. Track B1 Recorded Live at Festival International De Jazz De Montreal
| A1 | Decoy | 8:34 | |
| A2 | Robot 415 | 1:09 | |
| A3 | Code M.D. | 5:59 | |
| A4 | Freaky Deaky | 4:33 | |
| B1 | What It Is | 4:32 | |
| B2 | That's Right | 11:11 | |
| B3 | That's What Happened | 3:34 |
- Gil Evans
- Arranged By (B2)
- Miles Davis
- Arranged By (A2, A4 to B3), Producer
- Robert Irving III
- Arranged By (A1 to A3), Co-producer
- Vince Wilburn, Jr.
- Co-producer [Associate Producer]
- Tom Swift
- Engineer [Assistant], Edited By
- Ronald F. Lorman
- Engineer [Engineered By], Mixed By [Remixed By]
- Dr. George Butler
- Executive-Producer
- Hisamitsu Noguchi
- Liner Notes
- Bob Ludwig
- Mastered By
- Gilles Larrain
- Photography By [Cover]
- Guy Charbonneau
- Recorded By
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