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Decoy = LP, Smokey Vinyl = (LP)
"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 real sense of harmony and only a rudimentary mastery of synthesized sounds and movements. Irving shared directing responsibilities with the trumpeter's nephew, Vince Wilburn Jr. but Al Foster continued to set the pace. John Scofield steered bassist Darryl Jones' funk towards chromatic abstraction. The two pieces he co-wrote with Miles are fragments of solos, with "That's What Happened" picking up the beginning of his solo on "Speak" (Star People).
"Decoy" offered a good balance between the dominant funk, which subsequently took over, and the jazz tradition, reflected in Scofield's angularity, Marsalis' freedom of sound and the breadth of Miles' playing, which had regained its full power.
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Similar artists: HERBIE HANCOCK, PHARAOH SANDERS
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