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Milestones is an album recorded in February and March 1958 by Miles Davis. It is notable as an example of one of Miles' first forays into the developing modal jazz experiments with his composition "Milestones," listed on the original Lp issue as "Miles." (This modal piece should not to be confused with the earlier composition with the same title recorded by Davis and Charlie Parker in 1947.) These modal techniques would be continued and expanded on the groundbreaking album, Kind of Blue. It was also the last time the rhythm section of Jones, Garland and Chambers would ever play with Miles on record.

Coltrane's return to Davis’s group in 1958 coincided with the “modal phase” albums: Milestones and Kind of Blue (1959) are both considered essential examples of 1950s modern jazz. Davis at this point was experimenting with modes—i.e., scale patterns other than major and minor.

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Reception

The Penguin Guide to Jazz selected this album as part of its suggested "Core Collection" calling it "one of the very great modern-jazz albums."

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Stereo remix and remaster

Milestones was originally released in mono, as well as in electronically re-channeled stereo (also called pseudo-stereo),. The album was remixed and remastered in stereo for The Complete Columbia Recordings of Miles Davis with John Coltrane and, in 2009, reissued in stereo on the Columbia/Legacy label.

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Track listing

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Side one

  1. "Dr. Jackle" – 5:47 (Jackie McLean)
  2. "Sid's Ahead" – 12:59 (Miles Davis)
  3. "Two Bass Hit" – 5:13 (John Lewis – Dizzy Gillespie)
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Side two

  1. "Milestones" – 5:45 (Davis)
  2. "Billy Boy" – 7:14 (traditional, arr. Ahmad Jamal)
  3. "Straight, No Chaser" – 10:41 (Thelonious Monk)
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CD track listing

  1. "Dr. Jackle" – 5:47
  2. "Sid's Ahead" – 12:59
  3. "Two Bass Hit" – 5:13
  4. "Milestones" – 5:42
  5. "Billy Boy" – 7:10
  6. "Straight, No Chaser" – 10:35
  7. "Two Bass Hit" (Alternate Take) – 4:30
  8. "Milestones" (Alternate Take) – 6:00
  9. "Straight, No Chaser" (Alternate Take) – 10:30

Tracks 3–8 recorded on February 4, 1958; tracks 1 and 2 recorded on March 4, 1958.

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Performers


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