Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. 'Round Midnight
2. Ah-Leu-Cha
3. All of You
4. Bye Bye Blackbird
5. Tadd's Delight
6. Dear Old Stockholm
7. Two Bass Hit (Bonus Track)
8. Little Melonae (Bonus Track)
9. Budo (Bonus Track)
10. Sweet Sue, Just You (Bonus Track)

Disc 2:

1. 'Round Midnight (Live - 1955)
2. Introduction by Gene Norman (Live - 2/18/56)
3. Chance It (aka Max Is Making Wax) (Live - 2/18/56)
4. Walkin' (Live - 2/18/56)
5. Gene Norman & Miles Davis (Live - 2/18/56)
6. It Never Entered My Mind (Live - 2/18/56)
7. Woody N' You (Live - 2/18/56)
8. Salt Peanuts (Live - 2/18/56)
9. The Theme (Live - 2/18/56)
10. 'Round Midnight [Live] - Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk
11. Introduction [Live][#] - Gene Norman
12. Chance It (aka Max Is Making Wax) [Live][#]
13. Walkin' [Live][#]
14. Gene Norman & Miles Davis [Live][#] - Miles Davis, Gene Norman
15. It Never Entered My Mind [Live][#]
16. Woody 'N You [Live][#]
17. Salt Peanuts [Live][#]
18. Theme [Live][#]

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #14645 in Music
• Brand: Sony
• Released on: 2005-06-14
• Number of discs: 2
• Formats: Original recording remastered, Special Edition
• Dimensions: .32 pounds

Album Description
Miles Davis, 'Round About Midnight

Amazon.com
Miles Davis's long relationship with Columbia began with the 1955-56 recordings heard here, as the trumpeter's suddenly rising career curve was consolidated after the move from the independent Prestige label. The band on this CD is the first of Davis's classic quintets, the extraordinary group with John Coltrane, pianist Red Garland, bassist Paul Chambers, and drummer Philly Joe Jones that still stands as the definitive ensemble in modern mainstream jazz. The music ranges from the smoldering emotions of Davis's distinctively muted ballad performances to the searching quality already apparent in Coltrane's keening horn, while the band's unique chemistry is apparent on "Dear Old Stockholm" and the novel counterpoint of Charlie Parker's "Ah-Leu-Cha."

The Legacy Edition contains four bonus tracks from the original sessions, plus a second disc of live material - one track from the Newport Jazz Fest 1955 (with Thelonious Monk), and eight previously unreleased tracks from the 1956 Pasadena concert. --Stuart Broomer

Customer Reviews

Buy it Again, Anyway. It's way, way too good.
No one should need to have the importance of this disc explained to them and from a sonic standpoint, the quality here is from the same remastered and restored tapes that produced the Miles/Trane box. What takes this elsewhere are the extra tracks from the recording sessions, and they are each terrific, and the second bonus disc with a live date of Miles with Monk delivering an absolutely mystical "Round Midnight," plus a concert from Pasadena California with the Trane quintet.
Regarding the Monk selection, the way that each man inspired the other is perhaps nowhere near so claerly evident as on this track. By itself, it would justify the price. Following with the never before released concert from Pasadena makes the second disc worth releasing on its own merits. The goof-ball MC sounds like such a cornball in his intro to Davis and his band, that you will find yourself squirming in humour. Imagine Jack Benny introducing P Diddy. Actually......
well, anyway, the band kicks in and there is an undeniable energy that they bring to the audience. Hopefully, as is the case with Hendrix, there are lodas of concert tapes from this quintet as well asmany of the other formations Miles put together. Miles was a live player. The studio records were phenomenal, but he knew the dialectics of live performance better than any jazz artist before or after him.
replace your other copies of this essential document. What you are familiar with will delight you, and the new stuff will astound you.

What have I been missing?
Firstly, I am not a jazz fan. This is perhaps because I have heard too many cool people running on at the mouth about the subject (especially about their cult of improvisation), and haven't taken the time to just sit down and have a listen. Well, shame on me! I checked the old rev. of this CD from the library on a whim (there he was, in that devilish red and black light), and wow. I did not hear the novelty of improvisation. I did not hear someone trying to sound different than everybody else. No, I heard sublime interpretations of traditional themes, rather than the chaotic pomposity that my prejudices had warned me against. I had to go buy this marvellous, and quite listenable production, because I didn't want to have to wait to get this breath of fresh air from the library. Buy this for your medicine cabinet; I'm sure the doctor will approve.

The Holy Grail has been found!
I never knew that Miles' performance of "'Round Midnight" was recorded. That incredible moment in jazz is caught here and so are LIVE RECORDINGS OF THE FIRST GREAT QUINTET!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is ESSENTIAL Miles Davis!!!!

BUY IMMEADIATLEY!!!