If Miles Davis stuck around a bit longer

I feel like engaging in some speculation.  I've been thinking alot lately about where Miles may have gone had he been with us alittle longer. If he was still alive he'd be pushing 90 so I'm not going to speculate if he was still live. Though who knows if he could still play maybe he would still be active.  But I digress, what I was thinking about was if Miles was with us just a little longer where might his music have taken us? His final Album was delving into Hip Hop and I'm sure we'd have gotten a few of those out of him. But then this thing called EDM popped up. I can totally imagine his trumpet accompanied by Drum N Bass, and old man Miles, lending his horn to Dubstep, or house music. Miles seemed to follow musical trends so experimenting with EDM seems like it would have been a natural evolution for Old Man Miles.

Curious to read where some of you think his music may have gone if he was with us a bit longer.

The things Miles could have done with Daft Punk or the Chemical Brothers, Possibly even Roni Size or Future Sound of London may have been amongst his best work. Assuming you're like me and love electronic music.

Thumbing through You Tube I came across this, http://https://youtu.be/YMQ2vUtN9SQ That's as good a possibility as any of where he may have gone.

Then there's the possibility that Miles may have one day worked with Rick Rubin, that may have produced something interesting as well.


Edited by PopetherevXXVIII - 08 May 2015 at 12:29pm

alright https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMQ2vUtN9SQ

I had to look up Who Bill Laswell is. I'll have to check him out from what I was reading he might very well be a glimpse of what may have been with Miles.

There are a lot of interesting remixes floating around you tube. For Miles and Duke anyway I haven't looked up anyone else. I'm sure somebody did some reworkings of Monk.  There are a few just OK remixes of Mingus' work mostly in the hip hop genre and mostly of Moanin, kind of disappointing, as I think he might have been another one who would have embraced Electronic music, though from the way he comes off in documentaries, hip hop is a good fit for him as well.

Interesting. I'll have to start digging for who has used Jazz Samples might yield some interesting finds.  Bob James is something like the 5th most sampled person of all time or something.