| Star People | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Miles Davis |
| Cover: | Miles Davis Star People.jpg |
| Released: | April 1983 |
| Recorded: | August 11, 1982 – February 3, 1983 |
| Genre: | Jazz fusion |
| Length: | 58:35 |
| Label: | Columbia |
| Producer: | Teo Macero |
| Prev Title: | We Want Miles |
| Prev Year: | 1982 |
| Next Title: | Decoy |
| Next Year: | 1984 |
Star People is a 1983 album recorded by Miles Davis and issued by Columbia Records. It is the second studio recording released after the trumpeter's six-year hiatus, the first to feature electric guitarist John Scofield, who was recommended by saxophonist Bill Evans, and the last to be produced by long-standing collaborator Teo Macero.
Bassist Marcus Miller, who would go on to produce future Davis sessions, plays on five of the tracks. Electric guitarist Mike Stern features on most of the pieces, and drummer Al Foster and percussionist Mino Cinelu round out the rhythm section. Davis played trumpet and Oberheim synthesizer simultaneously (without using overdubs), and also on separately recorded interludes for the over-18-minute-long blues "Star People".[1] The album was re-released as a part of the boxed set in 2009, and was further remastered and reissued in 2022.
In a contemporaneous review, music writer Greg Tate wrote:
All tracks composed by Miles Davis