Jazz musician Miles Davis, 1926-91, whose 1959 album Kind of Blue is generally regarded as the biggest selling jazz album of all time, played what instrument?
Milestones (Miles Davis album) 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 sextet. It was released in 1958 by Columbia Records. Tenor saxophonist John Coltrane's return to Davis' group in 1958 coincided with the "modal phase" albums: "Milestones" and "Kind of Blue" (1959) are both considered essential examples of 1950s modern jazz. Davis at this point was experimenting with modes – scale patterns other than major and minor. "Sid's Ahead" sounds at first like a re-working of the highly successful "Walkin'" (previously released on
The Cry of Jazz widely considered a landmark year of innovation in jazz due to the release of four groundbreaking albums: "Kind of Blue" by Miles Davis, "Time Out" by The Dave Brubeck Quartet, "Mingus Ah Um" by Charles Mingus, and "The Shape of Jazz to Come" by Ornette Coleman. Each of these albums made a unique contribution to jazz. With "Kind of Blue", Miles Davis established a previously developing style of jazz, called modal jazz, which uses fewer chords and melodic improvisation based on scales. Today "Kind of Blue" is recognized as the best-selling jazz album of all time. In "Time Out", Dave