Does Miles Davis belong in Prog?

Without Miles, I do not believe we would have had the same form of music come from the likes of John McLaughlin (Mahavishnu Orchestra), Billy Cobham, RTF, etc...

Over the next two years, he would pull off a breathtaking act of reinvention, disbanding his lauded quintet in favour of electrically charged line-ups using two drummers, two bass players and two, even three, keyboards. It was a process of exploration that culminated in 1970's Bitches Brew – an album that spawned a new genre, fusion

This is a fascinating time period and when I traveled the road in the 70's, musicians always and forever..talked about his reinvention. Yeah...that was a huge deal on a giant scale of musician rating and personal observation of all entertainers/performers that I traveled the road with in the 70's. Folk musicians on the circuit then, ..had great appreciation for Miles Davis and often expressed the importance of his genius to change music. Not just Jazz, but the actual concept of how to play music..in general.."differently". Miles Davis was a very unusual character to Jazz, Rock, Folk, & Blues musicians who did session work in N.Y. recording studios during the 70's. I was part of this scene during the late 70's and now that I'm an old man, I can turn on the radio and sometimes hear my guitar solos in a song that was never credited to me and has kept me virtually unknown and alien to a world I was directly part of  created by an evil monster industry.

Miles Davis was very scary to many serious skilled Jazz musicians. Miles was intimidating to them all and they took the whole affair as an educational experience/process. You'll just have to take my word for it.

It was Betty (his short lived younger wife) who turned Miles's ears towards rock and funk, to James Brown and Sly Stone and especially to the cosmic forays of JIMI Hendrix, whom she knew and whose music, bafflingly, had evaded Miles's radar.

Filles de Kilimanjaro, the album he released in the autumn of 1968, which featured his new wife on its sleeve and contained two tunes inspired by her, "Mademoiselle Mabry" and "Frelon Brun". Both are modelled on Hendrix riffs, respectively "The Wind Cries Mary" and "If 6 Was 9".

By then, Betty had introduced Miles to Jimi in person. The young rock god and jazz elder hit it off, the mutual fascination leading to talk about playing together.

Many of Miles's accomplices would go on to write their own careers in "fusion", among them Joe Zawinul, John McLaughlin, Chick Corea and Larry Young. For drummer Jack De Johnette, the process that created Bitches Brew, while thrilling, had human as much as artistic origins: "It was a midlife crisis played out through experimental jazz."

Big hugs to all xxxxx

P.S. All the above was copied from internet articles  more hugs