Milestones

LIMITED EDITION

180-GRAM BLUE VINYL

CONTAINS NEW SPECIALLY PREPARED LINER NOTES BY PENGUIN GUIDE TO JAZZ’s WRITER BRIAN MORTON AND BY PARIS' PRESTIGIOUS JAZZ MAGAZINE

“It is, put simply, one of the very greatest modern jazz albums. Play it back to back with the fabled Kind of Blue and to an entirely unprejudiced audience, if you can find one, and it yields not a whit in quality or musical depth. Miles was beginning to explore the deeper implications of modality, which freed jazz from the tyranny, as it had begun to seem, of harmonic “changes”. Pianist Red Garland’s studio walk-out made things easier for the leader. Working without the piano’s finger-wagging in the corner was liberating.” - Penguin Guide to Jazz

“Milestones is a revealing title! In addition to a clever pun on a first name that is enough to recognize the monumental trumpeter, it also says a lot about what this essential album represents: a milestone, a decisive step in a journey of which he was about to reach one of its peaks.” - Jazz Magazine

Personnel

MILES DAVIS, trumpet
JOHN COLTRANE, tenor sax
‘CANNONBALL’ ADDERLEY, alto sax RED GARLAND, piano
PAUL CHAMBERS, bass
PHILLY JOE JONES, drums

New York, February-March, 1958. 

Tracks

Side A:

1. DR. JEKYLL 5:50
2. SID’S AHEAD 13:07
3. TWO BASS HIT 5:15

Side B:

1. MILESTONES 5:44
2. BILLY BOY  7:15
3. STRAIGHT, NO CHASER 10:42 

Columbia 30th Street Studio, New York, February 4 (A3, B1-B3) & March 4 (A1-A2), 1958. Red Garland out and Miles Davis plays piano on “Sid’s Ahead”. Rhythm section only on “Billy Boy”. Original sessions produced by George Avakian.