Milestones

Miles Davis · 1958 · Original version (titled "Miles" on the 1958 LP)

Context

Recorded at the Columbia 30th Street studio in early 1958 by Miles Davis's sextet with Coltrane and Cannonball Adderley, the track is credited "Miles" on the original record, then renamed "Milestones". It is often considered one of the first pieces of modal jazz, a year before Kind of Blue.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Modal, Hard bop. Among the origins and influences of Modal: Cool (Birth of the Cool), Hard bop, Bossa nova, jazz samba.

By the same artist

• Générique (Ascenseur pour l'échafaud) (1958)
• Stella by Starlight (1958)
• So What (1959)
• Blue in Green (1959)
• Freddie Freeloader (1959)
• All Blues (1959)

Sources

• EN: Milestones (Miles Davis album)

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