US label. For company credits see Milestone Records, Inc..
Label Code: LC 1189 / LC 01189
Launched in 1966 by Flora Purim and worked with a wide array of artists in his capacity as Director of Jazz A&R. On December 2, 1972, it was announced that Fantasy had purchased the rights to the Milestone catalog and that they would take over production, packaging and distribution immediately. Although Keepnews departed the company in the early Eighties, Milestone remained active into the 2000s.

Chronology

Pre-Fantasy Milestone releases may carry one of four possible addresses of the company on rear sleeves.
A tentative address chronology is as follows:

1966 117 Madison Ave., New York, N.Y. 10016

1967–1968 22 West 48th Street, New York, N.Y. 10036 (from September 2, 1967 onwards)

1968–1970 119 West 57th Street, New York, N.Y. 10019

1971–1972 221 West 57th Street, New York, N.Y. 10019

Sold / Marketed in by Bellaphon Records