Milestones (song)

Milestones (song)

"Milestones" is a song written by Miles Davis. It appears on the album of the same name in 1958. It has since become a jazz standard. "Milestones" is the first example of Miles composing in a modal style and experimentation in this piece led to the writing of the legendary "So What" from the 1959 album "Kind of Blue".

Milestones is also the name of another song by Miles Davis he had written while playing with Charlie Parker.

"Milestones" has been performed by
*Elek Bacsik
*Chet Baker
*Anthony Braxton
*Miles Davis
*Bill Evans
*Dexter Gordon
*Herbie Hancock
*Roy Hargrove
*Joe Henderson
*Bobby Jaspar
*Wynton Kelly
*Dave Liebman
*Wes Montgomery
*Joe Pass
*Enrico Rava
*Buddy Rich
*Jimmy Smith
*René Thomas
*Charles Earland
*Bob Weir & Ratdog


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