Album · 1958
Milestones
by Miles Davis
Milestones is a 1958 jazz album by Miles Davis. It runs 10 tracks across 75 minutes on Capitol Records. Riffiter listeners rate it 4.5/5 from 1 rating.
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- 90 /100
- 4 critics
- 10
- Tracks
- 75 min
- Runtime
- 125 bpm
- Tempo
- F major
- Key
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- AllMusic5/5
- The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings4/4
- DownBeat4/5
- The Encyclopedia of Popular Music4/5
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Milestones (CL 1193) is a studio album by American jazz trumpeter and composer Miles Davis, recorded with his "first great quintet" augmented as a sextet. It was released in 1958 by Columbia Records. Milestones is one of Davis' first forays into the developing modal jazz experiments – with his composition "Milestones", listed on the original LP issue as "Miles". (This modal piece is not to be confused with the earlier composition with the same title recorded by Davis and Charlie Parker in 1947.) These modal techniques were continued and expanded on the groundbreaking album Kind of Blue. It was also the last time the rhythm section of Philly Joe Jones, Red Garland and Paul Chambers played with Davis on record. Tenor saxophonist John Coltrane's return to Davis' 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 – scale patterns other than major and minor.
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Davis plays both trumpet and piano on "Sid's Ahead". He plays trumpet in the ensemble passages and solos on trumpet but switches to piano to accompany the saxophonists in Garland's absence. "Billy Boy" is a solo feature for Garland and the rhythm section.
In brief
- Is Milestones good?
- Riffiter listeners rate Milestones 4.5/5 from 1 rating.
- When was Milestones released?
- Milestones was released in 1958 on Capitol Records.
- How many tracks are on Milestones?
- Milestones has 10 tracks, with a runtime of 75 minutes.
- What genre is Milestones?
- Milestones is catalogued under Jazz, Hard Bop, Post-Bop.
- What BPM is Milestones?
- Milestones runs at a median tempo of 125 BPM across its tracks, most often in F major, measured from audio analysis.
- What albums are similar to Milestones?
- Listeners of Milestones also rate A Love Supreme by John Coltrane, Mingus Ah Um by Charles Mingus, My Favorite Things by John Coltrane.
Milestones at a glance
- Label
- Columbia Records
- Produced by
- George Avakian
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