Gil Evans - Up From the Skies

Gil Evans was about twenty years older than Jimi Hendrix, but he had, as they say, open ears. Shortly before he died Hendrix was seeking advice from Evans and Miles Davis about how to add horns to his music, but his premature death meant that that music exists only in an alternate reality. In this reality, Gil Evans went on to record several Hendrix pieces, including a whole album in the early seventies. The results sounded like this.