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Miles Davis – Round About Midnight (DOL)

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Round About Midnight is an album by Miles Davis, released in 2017.

At the Newport Jazz Festival in 1955, Miles Davis performed the song “‘Round Midnight” as part of an all-star jam session, with the song’s composer Thelonious Monk, along with Connie Kay and Percy Heath of the Modern Jazz Quartet, Zoot Sims, and Gerry Mulligan. Davis’s solo received a positive reception from many jazz fans and critics. His response to this performance was typically laconic: “What are they talking about? I just played the way I always play.” George Avakian of Columbia Records was in the audience, and his brother Aram persuaded him that he ought to sign Davis to the label.

Davis signed with Columbia and formed his “first great quintet” with John Coltrane on saxophone. ‘Round About Midnight was his first album for the label. He was still under contract to Prestige, but he had an agreement that he could record material for Columbia to release after the expiration of his Prestige contract. Recording took place at Columbia studios; the first session was on October 26, 1955 at Studio D, during which the track “Ah-Leu-Cha” was recorded with three numbers that did not appear on the album. This is the first studio recording of the quintet. The remainder of the album was recorded during sessions on June 5, 1956 (“Dear Old Stockholm”, “Bye Bye Blackbird” and “Tadd’s Delight”) and September 10, 1956 (“All of You” and the titular “‘Round Midnight”) at Columbia’s 30th Street Studio. During the same period, the Miles Davis Quintet was also recording sessions to fulfill its contract with Prestige.

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Tracklist

A1 ‘Round About Midnight
A2 Ah-Leu-Cha
A3 All Of You

B1 Bye, Bye, Blackbird
B2 Tadd’s Delight
B3 Dear Old Stockholm



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