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Miles Davis - 'Round About Midnight Audio CD

A fair review of the Miles Davis "'Round About Midnight" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Miles Davis reviews here, or go back to the Miles Davis tabs.

Miles Davis Band: Miles Davis
Title: 'Round About Midnight
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Release Date: 2001-04-17
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 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 [*] 8: Little Melonae [*] 9: Budo [*] 10: Sweet Sue, Just You [*]

Miles above the rest
Round About Midnight is exactly the type of album that lives up to the hype. Miles Davis was so smooth that he along with Coltrane and buddies made veteran musicians look rough around the edges. Miles Davis was so groundbreaking and was so dominant in directing jazz tendencies that every single album begs to be listened to, but among his elite are Kind of Blue, Sketches of Spain, Bitches Brew and Round About Midnight. No jazz enthusiast should do without these albums and no poser wanting to appear to be knowledgeable of jazz should do without these albums. That way, they'll know what to listen for and become educated with excellence. Like most of the best of Miles, this album is best served chilled, with a nice bottle of wine and some great company. .


Miles & Columbia Records Unite


Round Midnight and the playing that Miles exhibits on this title piece is as defining as anything on Kind Of Blue. This album Round About Midnight is both stunning and fun. Miles' expressions are mysterious and undefinable. So original and deeply provocative.

All Of You and Bye Bye Blackbird are endlessly fun and cheerful songs that really wake up the album bringing it from the twilight to the dawn.

The bonus tracks are so darn good, that you wonder why they were not included on the original Lp.

Miles first Columbia release was certainly a massive success. .


Decent Miles Album, But Some Not So Great Tunes
Tunes like "Ah-Leu-Cha," "Two Bass Hit," (which at times sounds like a knock-off of Monk's "Epistrophy") and "Tad's Delight" really bring this album down to a mediocre level. Let first say that I love Miles Davis' early work, but I found "Round About Midnight" to be one of his weakest albums in his entire early discography. Don't get wrong, the playing from this quintet is top-notch, but these tunes I mentioned are not worthy compared to the rest of the album. "Round About Midnight" is an example of how you could go wrong with John Coltrane, Red Garland, Paul Chambers, and Philly Joe Jones. All outstanding musicians, but they seemed to be very disconnected on this recording.


One of his best early works
I've got a lot of Miles' Cds and this is probably the one I listen to the most. I'll keep this short. All the songs are great on it and I love Coltrane's work on this one too. I agree with others that say this is their favorite quintet. Not to negate what the future Davis groupings were but this one definitely had something that could not be replicated. A well balanced unoffensive classic jazz album. Recommended for Jazz pros and Jazz newbies alike. Soulful .


1st class Miles plus some hot Trane
It's really hard to disagree with most of the reviewers; this is Miles at his lyrical and contemplative best, and John Coltrane is really spicing the things up with his rough tenor; contrasting the leader's horn very effectivelly. .

And yes, this is the album that has both the magnificent version of Monk's 'Round Midnight and the beautiful and extremely creative version of children song Bye Bye Blackbird! But there is also boppish Ah-Leu-Cha, sentimental and ironic All of You. . .

Red Garland on piano, Paul Chambers on the bass and Philly Joe Jones on drums are a rhythm section at the same time powerfull and subtle, ideal for supporting and inspiring the horns.


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