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Why did Miles Davis fire John Coltrane?

Jazz saxophonist John Coltrane joined Miles Davis’s quintet in 1955, but he was fired two years later because his abuse of drugs and alcohol had led to his becoming unreliable. He returned to Davis’s group in 1958, contributing to the ā€œmodal phaseā€ albums Milestones (1958) and Kind of Blue (1959), both considered essential examples of 1950s modern jazz.