John Coltrane joined the Miles Davis quintet in 1955. Working with Miles Davis, Coltrane’s skills really developed and shone through. Joining the Miles Davis Quintet is what first brought this new style of music changed John Coltrane’s life forever. People's attention to Coltrane and his unique style of saxophone jazz. This was the band in which he began to revolutionize his music. While working together, Coltrane and Davis developed a new style of music called “modal jazz”.“Modal jazz” gives musicians more freedom with their music and gives them a greater variety of notes and modes to play as long as they stay within a certain scale. This new style of music changed John Coltrane’s life forever.
