'Round About Midnight

Occupation

'Round About Midnight is a jazz album by Miles Davis, recorded in three recording sessions in 1955 and 1956, released by Columbia Records on 18 March 1957.

Background to the album

At the Newport Jazz Festival in the summer of 1955, Miles Davis had played the Thelonious Monk classic " 'Round Midnight " with an all-star jam session and was supported by Monk himself, and Connie Kay and Percy Heath from the Modern Jazz Quartet, Zoot Sims and Gerry Mulligan accompanied. Davis ' trumpet solo was wildly acclaimed by the audience. Miles ' response to the public's reaction was typically laconic: "I do not know what all the talk. I just played the way I always play. " George Avakian from the record label, Columbia Records was in the audience, and his brother Aram advised him, complete with a Miles Davis record deal. Due to the success of jazz albums, especially by Dave Brubeck, Columbia was on the lookout for young talent. Davis was at that time still in the jazz label Prestige Records contract; but it was agreed that it could borrow material for Columbia during the Prestige contract with his new quintet already.

The album

Under the pressure of success at the Newport Jazz Festival Miles Davis had with pianist Red Garland and drummer Philly Joe Jones, with whom he had recorded in 1955 the album The Musings of Miles, the only 19 -year-old bassist Paul Chambers, and the tenor saxophonist John Coltrane, who was signed on Garland and Jones ' Council of Davis, his legendary " First Quintet " together. The first recording session for Columbia Records took place on October 27, 1955 held in Studio D, where the band recorded the bebop numbers "A- Leu -Cha ", " Budo " and "Two Bass Hit ". Only in the summer of 1956, while the Prestige " marathon sessions" when the members of the quintet performed their contractual obligations with the recording of albums such as Relaxin 'with the Miles Davis Quintet, they took again for Columbia Records.

The title " Tadd 's Delight ", composed by Tadd Dameron, with Davis in 1949 worked with, " Dear Old Stockholm ", an old Swedish folk song in the processing of Stan Getz, and later the jazz standard "Bye Bye Blackbird" were at 5 June. added. The remaining pieces - such as the title track 'Round Midnight and "All of You " - for the first Columbia album came on September 10 in Columbia's 30th Street Studio.

The reception of the album

With the appearance of ' Round About Midnight, the reactions in the jazz world were exuberant. The jazz critic of the "New Yorker" wrote under the impression of the album: " Davis is able to remarkable distillation and pulls it in front of an enumeration of the melodic possibilities; in fact, it seems that what comes out of his horn to be the miraculously quickly edited version of a much more far roam the melody in his head. " Today's reactions fall somewhat restrained from: Ralph Berton ( The Record Changer ) describes the music as " orthodox, middle-of- the-road conservative progressive jazz. " Richard Cook and Brain Morton call 'Round About Midnight a " footnote " to the the same time incurred Prestige sessions.

John Coltrane was his game in the Miles Davis Quintet an icon of jazz history. However, his continued alcohol and heroin problems led Davis in April 1957, to separate from Coltrane and Philly Joe Jones. Davis broke up the band and turned in this year, other projects, such as recordings with Gil Evans ( Miles Ahead ), and in Paris the music for Louis Malle's Nouvelle Vague film Elevator to the Gallows, published as Davis album Ascenseur pour l ' Echafaud.

Edition history

Published in 2001, Columbia Records, the original album supplemented by four bonus tracks. All alternates takes are included in the box set The Complete Miles Davis with John Coltrane. A " Legacy Edition " (2005) complements the issue with a CD of the Newport appearance on " 'Round Midnight ", and the quintet concert recordings from 1956 ( with the pieces "Chance It", "Walkin ' ," " It Never Entered My Mind, "" Woody 'n' You " and " Salt Peanuts ").

The title

  • The original album (Columbia PC 8649 )
  • Bonus tracks of " Columbia Legacy" edition (2001):
  • Bonus tracks on the second Compact disc Columbia Legacy Edition (2005 ), ( all except the first pieces recorded live at the Pacific Jazz Festival in February 1956)

The cover design of the original album is also of S. Neil Fujita

Genre Birth of the Cool Aram Avakian Jazzstandard Richard Cook (journalist) French New Wave Cootie Williams Charlie Parker Cole Porter Ray Henderson Dizzy Gillespie John Lewis (Pianist) Jackie McLean Bud Powell Victor Young Oscar Pettiford Lorenz Hart
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