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US label. For company credits see [l=Milestone Records, Inc.]. Label Code: LC 1189 / LC 01189 Launched in 1966 by [a=Orrin Keepnews] & [a341576]. As at his earlier company, [l=Riverside Records], producer Keepnews had little trouble attracting top-flight jazz artists to his Milestone label. Within a few years of it's founding, [a=Sonny Rollins], [a=Joe Henderson], [a=Gary Bartz] and [a=McCoy Tyner] all joined the Milestone family. In 1970, Milestone switched distribution to [l=Audiofidelity Enterprises, Inc.] with Keepnews remaining as head of the label. Keepnews and Milestone moved from New York to Berkeley around November 1972 to become a part of [l=Fantasy, Inc.], where he soon launched the successful solo recording career of Brazilian vocalist [a=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. [b]Chronology[/b] Pre-Fantasy Milestone releases may carry one of four possible addresses of the company on rear sleeves. A tentative address chronology is as follows: [b]1966[/b] 117 Madison Ave., New York, N.Y. 10016 [b]1967–1968[/b] 22 West 48th Street, New York, N.Y. 10036 (from September 2, 1967 onwards) [b]1968–1970[/b] 119 West 57th Street, New York, N.Y. 10019 [b]1971–1972[/b] 221 West 57th Street, New York, N.Y. 10019 Sold / Marketed in Germany by [l=Bellaphon Records]