Miles Davis

5 STARS DOWN BEAT MAGAZINE

This edition presents the Miles Davis’ complete classic album ‘Round About Midnight (CL949), which was the trumpeter’s first LP for the Columbia label. Davis’ signed with the major record company after his success at the 1955 Newport Jazz Festival, where he performed a version of Thelonious Monk’s “’Round Midnight” with the composer. As a bonus, an extra version of “’Round Midnight” by the exact same quintet recorded for the Prestige label a few months later.

Includes 12-page booklet

PERSONNEL:

MILES DAVIS, trumpet
JOHN COLTRANE, tenor sax
RED GARLAND, piano
PAUL CHAMBERS, bass
PHILLY JOE JONES, drums

(1, 3 & 11) September 10, 1956.
(4-6) June 5, 1956.
(2 & 7-9) October 26, 1955.

(11) BONUS TRACK:
Same personnel. Hackensack,
New Jersey, October 26, 1956.

Tracks:

01 ‘ROUND MIDNIGHT 5:58
02 AH-LEU-CHA 5:53
03 ALL OF YOU 7:03
04 BYE, BYE, BLACKBIRD 7:57
05 TADD’S DELIGHT 4:29
06 DEAR OLD STOCKHOLM 7:52
07 TWO BASS HIT 3:44
08 LITTLE MELONAE 7:22
09 BUDO 4:17
10 SWEET SUE, JUST YOU 3:40
11 ‘ROUND MIDNIGHT [studio version for Prestige] 5:19*

TOTAL TIME: 63:38

Down Beat original review: ‘ROUND ABOUT MIDNIGHT
“First, let me say that you should buy this LP immediately. Perhaps even two copies, since you may wear out one playing it and you will want another. This is the kind of album to which one returns time and time again because it is, in its way, a perfect thing, a slice of modern jazz conceived and executed in the very best style.” (Ralph J. Gleason)