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: Artist: Miles Davis Quintet :
: Album: 'Round About Midnight :
: Tracks: 10 :
: Time: 0:58 hours :
: Bitrate: 192kbit True Stereo :
: Source: Compact Disc :
: Genre: Jazz :
: Label: Columbia :
: Str.Date: 09/10/1956 :
: Rip.Date: 04/24/2002 :
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.. About This Release .......................................
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: AMG Review: "This current reissue of Round About :
: Midnight is the definitive presentation of one of Miles :
: Davis' and jazz's greatest recordings - at least until :
: a new music playback format is introduced. As Legacy :
: has done consistently, once a box set is issued, the :
: individual recordings are released in groups until the :
: complete material is on the market album by album. The :
: Complete Miles Davis/John Coltrane Sessions are no :
: exception. This reissue features the original album as :
: sequenced with the addition of four tracks from the :
: same sessions originally heard on other Columbia :
: anthologies. There can be no question about the quality :
: of the remastering or the disc's presentation, both of :
: which are superb. Given that this was Miles Davis' :
: debut Columbia recording, it was both a beginning and :
: an ending. Certainly the beginning of his recording :
: career with the label that issued most if not all of :
: his important recordings; and the recording debut of an :
: exciting new band that had within its ranks Philly Joe :
: Jones, Paul Chambers, pianist Red Garland, and an all :
: but unknown tenor player named John Coltrane. The title :
: track was chosen because of its unique rendition with a :
: muted trumpet, debuted at the Newport Jazz Festival the :
: summer before to a thunderous reception. The date was :
: also an ending of sorts because by the time of the :
: album's release, Davis had already broken up the band, :
: which reformed with Cannonball Adderley a year later as :
: a sextet, but it was a tense year. :
: Musically, this sound is as unusual and as beautiful as :
: it was when issued in 1956. Davis had already led the :
: charge through two changes in jazz - both cool jazz and :
: hard bop - and was beginning to move in another :
: direction here that wouldn't be defined for another two :
: years. Besides the obvious lyrical and harmonic beauty :
: of "Round About Midnight" that is arguably its :
: definitive version even over Monk's own, there are the :
: edges of Charlie Parker's "Au Leu-Cha" with its :
: Bluesology leaping from every chord change in Red :
: Garland's left hand. Coltrane's solo here too is :
: notable for its stark contrast to Davis' own: he :
: chooses an angular tack where he finds the heart of the :
: mode and plays a melody in harmonic counterpoint to the :
: changes but never sounds outside. Cole Porter's "All of :
: You" has Davis quoting from Louis Armstrong's "Basin :
: Street Blues" in his solo that takes out the tune, and :
: Coltrane has never respected a melody so much. But it's :
: in "Bye-Bye Blackbird" that we get to hear the band gel :
: as a unit, beginning with Davis playing through the :
: melody, muted and sweet, slightly flatted out until he :
: reaches the harmony on the refrain and begins his solo :
: on a high note. Garland is doing more than comping in :
: the background; he's slipping chord shapes into those :
: interval cracks and shifting them as the rhythm section :
: keeps "soft time." When Coltrane moves in for his :
: break, rather than Davis' spare method, he smatters :
: notes quickly all though the melodic body of the tune :
: and Garland has to compensate harmonically, moving the :
: mode and tempo up a notch until his own solo can bring :
: it back down again. Which he does with a gorgeous :
: all-blues read of the tune utilizing first one hand and :
: then both hands to create fat harmonic chords to bring :
: Davis back in to close it out. It's breathtaking how :
: seamless it all is. Of the bonus material, it's :
: interesting, but the only stunner is Jackie McLean's :
: "Little Melonae" - recorded before its composer could :
: put it in the can. The band comes out blazing but it's :
: Coltrane with the surprise quoting of Dizzy Gillespie :
: solos at the beginning of his own. Davis once again :
: plays in stark contrast, moving through a sequence of :
: bop and cool phrases before settling it an intervallic :
: mode of melodic invention and allowing Coltrane to :
: intercut harmonically and extend the melodic idea. :
: There's little else to say except that this is among :
: the most essential of Davis' Columbia recordings and :
: this version makes it all the more so. - Thom Jurek" :
: :
: I was pretty surprised to find that this album had not :
: been released. One of Miles' best recordings, reissued :
: and remastered here with four bonus tracks which did not :
: appear on the original LP. Great album here...Enjoy! :
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.. Track List ...............................................
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: 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 :
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