I always feel that the drumming on the album changed the way Jimi played too though (the bass of course was part of this too), Jimi's rhythm on the album is a bit different from usual IMO and it offers a different side of his playing so I give Miles a pass for that reason even if the drumming is dull as fuck and really plodding...
On the topic of drumming, there are several avantgarde jazz albums where the drumming fuck them up a little-I'm not a fan of Beaver Harris who played on a bunch of records with Archie Shepp, marion Brown and Roswell Rudd. However, that's not really bands. An example of something that *is* a band though would be Alice Coltrane's piano-playing in the end of John Coltrane's band and I find that her pedalled arpeggios give the music a "spiritual", almost saccharine feeling which doesn't match the vERY sharp and jagged music the rest of the band is playing.
I also never felt that Clapton's guitarplaying fit Cream which may seem strange but it is evident on their endless live-jams where the rhythm-section is really pushing shit while Clapton is just playing blues-cliches that works in the context of short solos but become tedious in long jams since he doesn't vary his rhythm and the timbral aspects nearly enough to sustain interest. I don't know how highly lauded that aspect of the band is nowadays though; I think it's more recognized as influential than truly great...