Miles Davis

2LPs ON 1 CD

"Round About Midnight" (Columbia CL-949) was Miles Davis’ first LP for the Columbia label. He had signed with that major record company following his unexpected success at the 1955 Newport Jazz Festival, where he played an outstanding version of Thelonious Monk’s “’Round Midnight” with the composer.Miles was still under contract with Prestige when he made these first Columbia sessions, which had to wait in the vaults a few months before being issued in order to let the trumpeter fulfil his arrangement with his previous label. Another classic Miles Davis album, "Walkin’" (Prestige PRLP-7076), has been added here in its entirety as a bonus.

PERSONNEL:

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

All tracks recorded in New York.
“All of You” / “’Round Midnight” on September 10, 1956.
“Dear Old Stockholm” / “Bye, Bye, Blackbird” / “Tadd’s Delight” on June 5, 1956.
“Ah-Leu-Cha” on October 26, 1955.

BONUS ALBUM: WALKIN':

On 7-8: MILES DAVIS (tp); J. J. JOHNSON (tb); LUCKY THOMPSON (ts);
HORACE SILVER (p); PERCY HEATH (b); KENNY CLARKE (d).
Hackensack, New Jersey, April 25, 1954.

On 9-11: MILES DAVIS (tp); DAVE SCHILDKRAUT (as); HORACE SILVER (p);
PERCY HEATH (b); KENNY CLARKE (d).
Hackensack, New Jersey, April 3, 1954.

TRACKS:

01.‘ROUND MIDNIGHT
02 AH-LEU-CHA
03 ALL OF YOU
04 BYE, BYE, BLACKBIRD
05 TADD’S DELIGHT
06 DEAR OLD STOCKHOLM
07 WALKIN’
08 BLUE ‘N’ BOOGIE (
09 SOLAR
10 YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT LOVE IS
11 LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME

Total Time: 77:18