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Miles Davis - ‘Round About Midnight '1957 [2001]

‘Round About Midnight
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Album name ‘Round About Midnight
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Date 1957 [2001]
GenreJazz
Play time 00:57:47
Format / Bitrate Stereo 1420 Kbps / 44.1 kHz
MP3 320 Kbps
Media CD
Size 1,7 GB (+3%rec.)
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‘Round About Midnight is an album by jazz musician Miles Davis. It was his
debut on Columbia Records, and was originally released in March 1957 (CL 949).
The album took its name from the Thelonious Monk song “‘Round
Midnight”.
Recording sessions took place at Columbia Studio D on October 26, 1955, and at
Columbia’s 30th Street Studio on June 5 and September 10, 1956.
‘Round About Midnight is widely recognized by jazz critics as a landmark
album in hard bop and one of the greatest jazz albums of all time.
Allmusic Review
Given that ‘Round About Midnight was Miles Davis’ debut Columbia
recording, it was both a beginning and an ending. Certainly the beginning of his
recording career with the label that issued most if not all of his important
recordings; and the recording debut of an exciting new band that had within its
ranks Philly Joe Jones, Paul Chambers, pianist Red Garland, and an all but
unknown tenor player named John Coltrane. The title track was chosen because of
its unique rendition with a muted trumpet, and debuted at the Newport Jazz
Festival the summer before to a thunderous reception. The date was also an
ending of sorts because by the time of the album’s release, Davis had
already broken up the band, which re-formed with Cannonball Adderley a year
later as a sextet, but it was a tense year.
Musically, this sound is as unusual and as beautiful as it was when issued in
1956. Davis had already led the charge through two changes in jazz — both
cool jazz and hard bop — and was beginning to move in another direction
here that wouldn’t be defined for another two years. Besides the obvious
lyrical and harmonic beauty of “Round About Midnight” that is
arguably its definitive version even over Monk’s own, there are the edges
of Charlie Parker’s “Au Leu-Cha” with its Bluesology leaping
from every chord change in Red Garland’s left hand. Coltrane’s
solo here too is notable for its stark contrast to Davis’ own: he chooses
an angular tack where he finds the heart of the mode and plays a melody in
harmonic counterpoint to the changes but never sounds outside. Cole
Porter’s “All of You” has Davis quoting from Louis
Armstrong’s “Basin Street Blues” in his solo that takes out
the tune, and Coltrane has never respected a melody so much. But it’s in
“Bye-Bye Blackbird” that we get to hear the band gel as a unit,
beginning with Davis playing through the melody, muted and sweet, slightly
flatted out until he reaches the harmony on the refrain and begins his solo on a
high note. Garland is doing more than comping in the background; he’s
slipping chord shapes into those interval cracks and shifting them as the rhythm
section keeps “soft time.” When Coltrane moves in for his break,
rather than Davis’ spare method, he smatters notes quickly all though the
melodic body of the tune and Garland has to compensate harmonically, moving the
mode and tempo up a notch until his own solo can bring it back down again. Which
he does with a gorgeous all-blues read of the tune utilizing first one hand and
then both hands to create fat harmonic chords to bring Davis back in to close it
out. It’s breathtaking how seamless it all is. There’s little else
to say except that ‘Round About Midnight is among the most essential of
Davis’ Columbia recordings.



Tracks:

1. 'Round Midnight 5:55
2. Ah-Leu-Cha 5:50
3. All of You 7:00
4. Bye Bye Blackbird 7:53
5. Tadd's Delight 4:26
6. Dear Old Stockholm 7:48
Bonus Tracks:
7. Two Bass Hit 3:42
8. Little Melonae 7:20
9. Budo 4:14
10. Sweet Sue, Just You 3:39

Personnel:

Paul Chambers - Bass
"Philly" Joe Jones - Drums
Red Garland - Piano
John Coltrane - Tenor Saxophone
Miles Davis - Trumpet 








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