REISSUE PRESENTS OFT-OVERLOOKED MASTERWORK WITH RIVETING SOUND - IN MONO
1/4" / 15 IPS analog mono master to DSD 64 to analog console to lathe
Miles Davis created just one studio album with his original sextet. He made every moment count. Pairing with Cannonball Adderley, John Coltrane, Red Garland, Paul Chambers, and Philly Joe Jones, the trumpeter 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. Due to its sandwiched position between the more famous 'Round About Midnight and epochal Kind of Blue, Milestones remains, for too many music lovers, an overlooked classic.
Tracklist:
A1 Dr. Jekyll 5:50
A2 Sid's Ahead 13:08
A3 Two Bass Hit 5:15
B1 Milestones 5:44
B2 Billy Boy 7:16
B3 Straight, No Chaser 10:35
Alto Saxophone – Julian "Cannonball" Adderly
Bass – Paul Chambers
Drums – "Philly" Joe Jones
Piano – Red Garland
Tenor Saxophone – John Coltrane
Trumpet – Miles Davis
Part of Mobile Fidelity's Miles Davis catalog restoration series, Milestones has been restored to mono for the first time as to expose the record's standing as one of the all-time great jazz efforts.Mastered from the original master tapes and pressed at RTI, this unsurpassed 180g mono LP edition grants each musician their own space in a well-defined, broadened soundstage. Colors, shapes, and dimensions appear in the manner they do when beheld from behind a studio-control room's window.
If anything, Milestones is as famous for its title track as the players that produced it. The launching pad for many of Davis' (and later, his contemporaries') improvisational flights, the singular piece invites the tessellated explorations Coltrane would forever chase as well as the headliner's argyle solo work, who broaches territories that far exceed what he had done with his bop-rooted past. Every song is a highlight, whether it's the bravado "No Jackle," featuring a hot-foot pace and bebop strains, or "Sid's Ahead," which continues the album's blues theme while tossing around edgy harmonics and inside-out structures.
Then there's "Straight, No Chaser," the absolutely definitive rendition of Thelonious Monk's signature piece. Coltrane's marbled playing pulls at the tune's lobed borders, Adderley takes liberty with solos, and Davis dances around his mates, at one point quoting "When the Saints Go Marching In" while demonstrating his knowledge of tradition and eye towards the future. A milestone if there ever was. And now, in resplendent mono.
Recording information:
Title: Milestones
Artist: Miles Davis
Genre: Jazz
Media: 1x 180g LP Vinyl Mono 33rpm, Limited, Numbered, Remastered, . Mastered from 1/4", 15ips Original Analog Master Tapes to DSD64 to analog console to lathe. The Gain 2 Ultra Analog System, Specially Plated & Pressed on 180g High-Definition Vinyl. Pressed in the USA. Recorded 1958 at the Columbia 30th Street Studio in New York City. Mastered by Krieg Wunderlich @ Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab.
Label: MoFi - Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab
Cat#: MFSL-1-374
Released: 2013 in US
Original release: 1958 by Columbia CL 1193
EAN: 0821797137416
Discogs rel.#: 4716235
