Decoy

Miles Davis

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Original Release Date: June 30, 1983
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B0000025X5
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #203,121 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Miles Davis Gets Funked Up!, August 5, 2003

By	Andre' S Grindle "Funk Meister" (Bangor,ME.) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

No matter who backed him up,Miles always played in
his own way and one could always tell it was him.The trio of songs that begin the album-the tital cut,"Robot 415" and
"Code M.D." are pulsing electro-funk hip/hop numbers that stand as the beginnings of jazz-hop and are therefore a precurser to what Gang Starr and Digable planets would be doing a decade
later."What Is It" and "That's What Happened" are organic,white-
hot,live-in-the-studio jams where Miles blows like a siren.The
moody "Freaky Deaky" and "That's Right" add enough change of pace
to make this one of Mile's better 80's albums by far!

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent..., February 28, 2001

By	funktion (The Synaptic Gap) - See all my reviews

DECOY marks a milestone in Miles' thinking since returning to the jazz wars, and the trumpeter's keyboard abstractions over Jones' Kraftwerk-like bass groove on "Freaky Deaky" offers clues as to the style of spontaneous orchestration and interplay he wanted. Co-producer/keyboardist Robert Irving's title track depicts an opulent canvas of inter-connected modes, all doing a wheeling dance around Jones' spacious, behind-the-beat bass pulse; "Robot 415" is an Afro-Techno miniature; and "Code M.D." offers slick big band synth flourishes and contrasting rhythmic accents over a swampy, post-modern brand of southern funk. Throughout DECOY, Scofield's deft harmonic intuition and sure feel for boppish blues lines help set the plate for the trumpeter's stabbing upper register declamations and oblique melodies. And as a co-composer, Scofield helps distill Miles' `80s brew of ethnic shadings, funky polyrhythms, Gil Evans-styled keyboard colors...and the blues. Check out how his agitated counterpoint and skanky funk groove on "What It Is" inspire Miles to overdub a melange of trumpet commentaries, while "That's Right" showcases the band's elegant blues plumage. And the rousing "That's What Happened" suggests James Brown let loose in a particle collider, as a fragmented melody snakes its way through the carnage.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The definitive 80's Miles CD, April 24, 2000

By	Joseph A. Gross (Nashville, Tennessee, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This CD defines a whole new approach to improvisation. If you can find it, check out John Scofield's interview in Downbeat which came out shortly after Decoy was released on vinyl. It explains in depth the improvisational concept of this CD, which, for musicians, can be applied over any tune or set of chord changes. As usual, Miles is the ultimate combination of listener accessability and creative genius. A genius in his own right, Robet Irving III contributes some slick compositions, voicings, and programming on this CD also. A must have.