Miles Davis is one of the key figures in the history of jazz, and his place in vanguard of that pantheon is secure. His induction as a performer into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is a subtler and less obvious matter. Davis never played rock or rhythm & blues, though he experimented with funk grooves on 1972's On the Corner and in some of his later bands. However, his work intrigued a sizable segment of rock's more ambitious fans in a way that no other serious jazz figure had ever done - and not retroactively but while he ...