MILES DAVIS QUINTET - Round About Midnight

MILES DAVIS QUINTET - Round About Midnight ( SPC949 )

Speakers Corner - LP AUDIOPHILE PRESSING 180g

"'Round About Midnight" - Miles Davis (tr); John Coltrane (ts); Red Garland (p); Paul Chambers (b); Philly Joe Jones (dr)

These early recordings, which Miles Davis made for the Columbia label in 1955 and 1956, are finally available on LP again. And, even more importantly, they were made without alternate takes or second takes, as is customary these days.
You can sit back and enjoy the six tracks in the order the producer, presumably in collaboration with Davis, decided. Sure, all the titles are well-known and have been performed thousands of times in many different versions. But what this Quintet (and here we mean every single player!) produces in terms of inventiveness, thrilling improvisations, and mastery is absolutely first-rate. Davis's vibrato-free sound is flawlessly captured by John Coltrane—wonderfully demonstrated in the middle of "Bye, Bye Blackbird," while Paul Chambers's highlight is "Ack Värmeland du sköna" (aka "Dear Old Stockholm"). In 1955/56, bebop was all the rage, as evidenced by Tadd Dameron's classics "Tadd's Delight" and Charlie Parker's "Ah-Leu-Cha." Here, however, the improvised melodic veins are more moderate, paving the way for the style that would later become known as modal jazz.
While 'Round About Midnight' as an album doesn't enjoy the reputation of 'Kind Of Blue,' this Columbia recording contains many gems worth listening to.


This Speakers Corner LP has been remastered using only analog components, from the masters to the cutting head ( https://pure-analogue.com )

Recorded: October 1955, June and September 1956 at Columbia's 30th Street Studio, New York in mono
Production: George Avakian

• Columbia CL 949
• Format: 1LP 180g 33rpm / standard sleeve
• Original label: Columbia
• Barcode: 4260019713353
• Release Date: 2008-07-22