Milestones (Miles Davis album)

Milestones
Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 2, 1958 (1958-09-02)[1][2]
RecordedFebruary 4 and March 4, 1958
StudioColumbia 30th Street (New York City)
GenreJazz, modal jazz, bebop
Length47:36
LabelColumbia
ProducerGeorge Avakian
Miles Davis chronology
Ascenseur pour l'échafaud
(1958)
Milestones
(1958)
Porgy and Bess
(1959)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[4]
DownBeat
(Original LP release)
[3]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[5]
Tom HullB+[7]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[6]

Milestones is a studio album by Miles Davis. It was recorded with his "first great quintet" (augmented to a sextet with the addition of alto saxophonist Cannonball Adderley) and released in September of 1958 by Columbia Records.[8]

  1. ^ "Milestones". Miles Davies. Sony Music. Retrieved 11 June 2016.
  2. ^ Porter, Lewis, ed. (2013). The John Coltrane Reference. New York/Abingdon: Routledge. p. 43. ISBN 978-1135112578.
  3. ^ Down Beat: November 13, 1958 Vol. 25, No. 23
  4. ^ Jurek, Thom. "Milestones - Miles Davis". AllMusic. Retrieved November 29, 2013.
  5. ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference Penguin was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ Hull, Tom (n.d.). "Jazz (1940s-50s)". tomhull.com. Retrieved March 3, 2020.
  8. ^ Miles Davis (1990). Miles. Simon & Schuster. p. 422. ISBN 0671725823. Retrieved November 29, 2013.