Miles Davis & John Coltrane - Miles / Coltrane (180G)

“Miles / Coltrane” is a compilation album featuring Miles Davis and John Coltrane, released in 1958 on Columbia Records. It captures the peak of their collaboration during the late 1950s, when Coltrane was part of Davis’s First Great Quintet—a group that helped redefine modern jazz. The album includes recordings from earlier Columbia sessions, blending hard bop energy with Davis’s emerging modal style. Tracks like “Dr. Jackle,” “Two Bass Hit,” “Straight, No Chaser,” “Bye Bye Blackbird,” and “Milestones” showcase the powerful contrast between Davis’s lyrical, economical trumpet playing and Coltrane’s fiery, exploratory tenor saxophone lines. Though it’s a compilation rather than a studio concept album, Miles / Coltrane stands as an essential document of one of jazz’s most influential partnerships—capturing the moment when both musicians were evolving rapidly toward their later groundbreaking works: Davis’s Kind of Blue and Coltrane’s Giant Steps.