Milestones (album)

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Milestones is an album recorded in February and March 1958 by Miles Davis. It is renowned for including Miles' first forays into the developing modal jazz experiments, as noticed on the piece 'Miles' (renamed 'Milestones'), which would be taken to their logical conclusion on Kind of Blue. Furthermore the exuberant playing of his superb sextet, which featured the technically adept Cannonball Adderley and the mercurial John Coltrane duelling musically on such tracks as "Straight No Chaser", have induced it to be highly regarded by jazz musicians, fans and critics alike. It was also significant since it was the last time the rhythm section of Jones, Garland and Chambers would ever play with Miles on record.

Related Topics:
1958 - Miles Davis - Modal jazz - Kind of Blue - Sextet - Cannonball Adderley - John Coltrane - Jazz - Jones - Garland - Chambers

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Garland does not get much solo space on the album, taking solos only on the trio performance "Billy Boy" and the extended "Straight, No Chaser". He does not appear at all on "Sid's Ahead", which features Davis on piano.

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