Miles Davis - Milestones

Numbered limited edition 180-gram mono LP

Mobile Fidelity reissue presents the 1958 standard with unparalleled sound quality

The only record to feature Davis' original sextet, including the rhythm section of Paul Chambers and Philly Joe Jones. Miles Davis created just one studio album with his original sextet. He made every moment count. Pairing with Cannonball Adderley, John Coltrane, Red Garland, Paul Chambers, and Philly Joe Jones, the trumpeter not only laid the groundwork for the modalism that immediately followed but tailored a genuine modern-jazz masterwork laden with performances among the most explosive of his distinguished career. Due to its sandwiched position between the more famous ‘Round About Midnight and epochal Kind of Blue, Milestones remains, for too many music lovers, an overlooked classic.

The launching pad for many of Davis' (and later, his contemporaries') improvisational flights, every song is a highlight, whether it's the bravado "No Jackle," featuring a hot-foot pace and bebop strains, or "Sid's Ahead," which continues the album's blues theme while tossing around edgy harmonics and inside-out structures.