Dizzy Gillespie Dizzy Gillespie and his Rebop Six, which included Parker, started an extended gig at Billy Berg's club in Los Angeles in December 1945. Reception was mixed and the band broke up. In February 1946 he signed a contract with Bluebird, gaining the distribution power of RCA for his music. He and his big band headlined the 1946 film "Jivin' in Be-Bop". After his work with Parker, Gillespie led other small combos (including ones with Milt Jackson, John Coltrane, Lalo Schifrin, Ray Brown, Kenny Clarke, James Moody, J.J. Johnson, and Yusef Lateef) and put together his successful big bands starting in
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