Miles Davis Decoy
Released June 1984 
Recorded June 30, 1983 at A&R Studio, NY; July 7, 1983 at Théâtre St. Denis, Montreal; and September 5, 10 and 11, 1983, and Record Plant Studio, NY
Label Columbia
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Decoy represents the first sign of a major shift in the way Miles made music for the rest of the decade. Now, he would delegate much of the work to younger musicians, who used synthesizers and other electronic instruments to create the music. Keyboardist Robert Irving III composed and arranged much of the music on Decoy, which features John Scofield on guitar, Branford Marsalis on soprano saxophone and Darryl “The Munch” Jones on bass. The energetic title track is a classic, while the bluesy “That’s Right,” is an 11-minute epic with fine performances from everyone. Decoy also includes two highly-charged live funk numbers


1."Decoy"  8:33
2."Robot 415" 1:09
3."Code M.D." 5:58
4."Freaky Deaky" 4:34
5."What It Is" (Recorded live) 4:31
6."That's Right" 11:12
7."That's What Happened"  (Recorded live)  3:30

Personnel

Miles Davis - trumpet, synthesizer, arrangements
Bill Evans - soprano saxophone
Branford Marsalis - soprano saxophone
Robert Irving III - synthesizer, synthesizer bass & drum programming
John Scofield - guitar
Darryl "The Munch" Jones - bass
Al Foster - drums
Mino Cinelu - percussion