Milestones Packaging. Photographs By William Claxton)

The 1958 Miles Davis group wasnt a quintet but a sextet, with the addition of Julian Cannonball Adderley on alto sax. The bands first studio album was Milestones. The rhythm section was the same as the classic 1956 quintet, with Red Garland on piano, Paul Chambers on bass and Philly Joe Jones on drums, plus Miles, Cannonball and John Coltrane. In his autobiography, Miles referred to the making of the album in these terms: I wanted to get my group into the studio, and we recorded Billy Boy, Straight, No Chaser, Milestones, Two Bass Hit, Sids Ahead, and Dr. Jackle (listed as Dr. Jekyll) for the album Milestones. I played piano on Sids Ahead because Red got mad at me when I was trying to tell him something and left. But I loved the way the band sounded on this record and I knew that we had something special. Trane and Cannon were really playing their asses off and by then were really used to each other.