Milestones is a Miles Davis tune that serves as the title track of the 1958 album Milestones. It was recorded in February and March 1958 at Columbia's 30th Street Studio in New York and released on September 2, 1958. The track, originally titled Miles, is a landmark in the modal jazz movement Davis was exploring at the time, a shift away from pure bebop toward modal scales that would mature on Kind of Blue. The personnel on the session include Miles Davis on trumpet (and piano on Sid's Ahead), Cannonball Adderley on alto, John Coltrane on tenor, Red Garland on piano, Paul Chambers on bass, and Philly Joe Jones on drums. Milestones runs about 5 minutes 49 seconds, and the album as a whole blends blues and swinging modal ideas with bebop threads, being regarded as a seminal modern jazz record. On later releases the track is listed as Milestones rather than Miles, causing some confusion with an earlier John Lewis composition of the same name.
