Toots Thielemans I hear him." During an interview in 1988, he recalled, "I guess I was born at the right time to live and adapt and be touched by the evolution in the jazz language." In 1949 he joined a jam session in Paris with Sidney Bechet, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Max Roach and others. He first heard the faster bebop style of jazz from records by Parker and Dizzy Gillespie after they had reached Belgium after the war. They became his musical "prophets." As his small collection of jazz records grew, the music of Benny Goodman and Lester Young began to
Milestones (Miles Davis album) its suggested "Core Collection", calling it "one of the very great modern-jazz albums." "Milestones" was originally released in mono, as well as in electronically re-channeled stereo (also called pseudo-stereo). The album was remixed and remastered in stereo for "The Complete Columbia Recordings of Miles Davis with John Coltrane" and, in 2009, reissued in stereo on the Columbia/Legacy label. Tracks 3–9 recorded on February 4, 1958; tracks 1–2 recorded on March 4, 1958. Milestones (Miles Davis album) Milestones (CL 1193) is a studio album by American jazz trumpeter and composer Miles Davis, recorded with his "first great quintet" augmented as a