🎧 Playlist: Inspired By Electric Miles Davis

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Miles Davis’ embrace of rock and funk changed jazz history. In the late ’70s, peers like Ornette Coleman also incorporated electric guitar and bass—hear his “Theme from a Symphony (Variation 2)”. But Davis’ approach also changed pop music. In the ’80s, bands like Talking Heads drew on the riotous polyrhythms of his fusion music—as on “The Great Curve”—widening the trumpeter’s sphere of influence.

Energetic and also a little unhinged