Miles Davis

Numbered special edition 180-gram LP reissue
Pressed on SUPERVINYL

Sourced from the original master tapes:
MOBILE FIDELITY'S NUMBERED-EDITION 180 SUPER-VINYL LP
PRESENTS THE 1958 RECORD IN DEFINITIVE STEREO

RTI-PRESSED SUPERVINYL LP BENEFITS FROM
VIRTUALLY NONEXISTENT NOISE FLOOR
AND SUPERIOR GROOVE DEFINITION

Miles Davis created just one studio album with his original sextet: Milestones. And he made every moment count. Pairing with Cannonball Adderley, John Coltrane, Red Garland, Paul Chambers, and Philly Joe Jones, Davis 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. Sandwiched between the more famous 'Round About Midnight and the epochal Kind of Blue, Milestones remains a seminal work of art.

Sourced from the original master tapes and pressed on dead-quiet SuperVinyl, Mobile Fidelity's numbered-edition 180-gram LP grants each musician their own space amid broad soundstages. Afforded the benefits of a nearly non-existent noise floor and supreme groove definition, this vinyl reissue doubles as a time machine back to the February-March 1958 recording sessions.

Colors, shapes, and dimensions appear in a manner that resembles what you'd glean from behind a studio control room's window. Davis' burnished trumpet is rendered in a three-dimensional perspective and seemingly coaxes the band to play with unburdened zest. Coltrane's trademark saxophone teems with lifelike tonality and images with specificity; his solos work in tandem with and against the driving rhythms. Garland's swaggering piano lines visualize the keys as he hits full stride, the chords and fills slithering around skeletal frameworks.

Inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame and selected as a "Core Collection" record by the Penguin Guide to Jazz, Milestones is as famous for its title track — widely considered ground zero for modalism and bolstered by Jones' hallmark "Philly Lick" rim shot — as the players that produced it. The launching pad for many of Davis' improvisational flights, the album teases the explorations Coltrane would soon chase. Davis' solo work broaches territories that far exceed what he had done in his bop-rooted past. Every song is a highlight.

Garland already had one foot out the door during the Milestones sessions to the extent Davis spells him on "Sid's Ahead." Jones would stick around for a bit longer but soon plot his exit. History proves Davis navigated the changes with visionary aplomb. Yet the chemistry, excitement, and beauty the sextet achieves on Milestones cannot be overstated. This reissue helps put the album in proper perspective — and presents the music with the fidelity it deserves.

PERSONNEL

Miles Davis – trumpet, piano (on "Sid's Ahead"), flugelhorn (on "Milestones")
Julian "Cannonball" Adderley – alto saxophone
John Coltrane – tenor saxophone
Red Garland – piano (except on "Sid's Ahead")
Paul Chambers – double bass
Philly Joe Jones – drums

TRACKLIST

Side A
Dr. Jekyll
Sid’s Ahead
Two Bass Hit

Side B
Milestones
Billy Boy
Straight, No Chaser