Round About Midnight

Description

CD edition + 6 bonus tracks with 28-page booklet featuring new specially prepared liner notes by Penguin Guide to Jazz’s Brian Morton and by Paris’ prestigious publication, Jazz Magazine.

“In the role of a stylized preacher, which the release of this album in 1957 marked one of the high points of a tremendously prolific period for Miles Davis. In a few years, the trumpeter would forever imprint his name among the great leaders in the history of jazz by signing a series of major albums, which would be of tremendous importance both for him and for his contemporaries.” – Jazz Magazine

Miles Davis: trumpet
John Coltrane, tenor Sax
Red Garland, piano
Paul Chambers, bass
Philly Joe Jones, drums
Recorded New York, October 1955 – September 1956.