African-American music Ruth persuaded a gospel group to sing in a secular setting, the Apollo Theater, with such success that he subsequently arranged gospel caravans that traveled around the country, playing the same venues that rhythm and blues singers had popularized. Meanwhile, jazz performers began to push jazz away from swing, a danceable popular music towards more intricate arrangements, improvisation, and technically challenging forms, culminating in the bebop of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, the cool sounds and modal jazz of Miles Davis, and the free jazz of Ornette Coleman and John Coltrane. African-American musicians in the 1940s and 1950s were developing
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