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MILES DAVIS - ROUND ABOUT MIDNIGHT (2CD LEGACY EDITION)

MILES DAVIS/ROUND ABOUT MIDNIGHT (2CD LEGACY EDITION)

’Round About Midnight, recorded between October 1955 and September 1956, was the first full album released by Columbia Records by Miles Davis. The LP inaugurated a highly productive, three-decade relationship between the great trumpeter-bandleader and the label that helped make him a household name around the globe. At the Newport Jazz Festival in the summer of ’55, Davis (1926-1991) had made a stunning comeback with his deeply moving performance of “’Round Midnight.” Thus it was no accident that Thelonious Monk’s epochal ballad was selected as the title track of Davis’s Columbia debut. Spotlighting the trumpeter’s brooding, Harmon-muted sound with which he would soon become synonymous, “’Round Midnight” was perhaps foremost among ballads in the Davis canon. Deep-night balladry, however, was just part of the quintet’s approach. Whether rendering the classic bebop of “Ah-Leu-Cha,” the hard bop of “Little Melonae,” classy Cole Porter tunes like “All Of You” or overlooked 1920s pop standards such as “Bye Bye Blackbird,” the band’s overall mastery was absolute. But now, ’Round About Midnight has yet another reason to recommend it heartily: a set recorded live in Feb. 1956. Taken from a concert series produced by West Coast impresario Gene Norman, the additional music, running nearly 30 minutes, is the first-ever commercially available live performance by Davis’s first great quintet. With two sets of updated liner notes by Grammy-winning writer Bob Blumenthal, a short reflection by producer Gene Norman and a 4-color booklet containing superb new photographs, ’Round About Midnight—The Legacy Edition, now clocking in at more than 90 minutes playing time, is not only one of the supreme jazz recordings, it is also a bona fide Musical Event.

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)