Decoy

Description

Decoy is an album by the famous jazz musician Miles Davis, released in 1984. Robert Irving III on keyboards took on the role that Miles had assumed with a true sense of harmony and only a rudimentary mastery of synthetic sounds and movements. Irving shared directing responsibilities with the trumpeter's nephew, Vince Wilburn, Jr., but Al Foster continued to set the tempo. John Scofield drew the funk from bassist Darryl Jones in the direction of chromatic abstraction. The two tracks he co-wrote with Miles are fragments of solos: "That's What Happened" revisiting the beginning of his solo on "Speak" (Star People). Decoy offered a good balance between the dominant funk that later took over and the tradition of jazz, reflected in Scofield's angularities, Marsalis's freedom of tone, and the breath of Miles's playing, which had regained all its power.