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Release Date Friday 20th March 2026
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day.
In 1955 Miles Davis played an all-star jam session at the Newport Jazz Festival with Thelonious Monk on piano, Gerry Mulligan on baritone sax and Zoot Sims on tenor sax.
This performance immediately drew the attention of Columbia Records' George Avakian, who was so impressed that he immediately offered Davis a contract
if he could form a regular band. The group he then assembled would go down in history as Davis' so-called "First Great Quintet", consisting of John Coltrane
on tenor sax, Red Garland on piano, Philly Joe Jones on drums, Paul Chambers on bass and of course Miles himself on trumpet.
'Round Midnight is Miles Davis' first record for Columbia and also the first studio recording of the First Great Quintet. The recording sessions began on
October 26 1955 but the album wasn't released until 1957 as Davis was still under contract at Prestige at the time. These respective sessions yielded
Steamin', Workin', Cookin' and Relaxin'; albums that would go down in history as quintessential blueprints of late 1950s hard bop.
The record is made up of a collection of standards and one traditional song ("Dear Old Stockholm", from the 19th century).
Notably, it features what may be considered the most well-known versions of Thelonious Monk's "'Round Midnight" and "Bye Bye Blackbird".
That Avakian made a golden signing was sufficiently clear from the start, but no one could foresee that it would be this quintet on
Columbia that would go on to change the course of modern jazz forever with Kind of Blue.
'Round Midnight is available as a limited edition of 1500 individually numbered copies on crystal clear vinyl.
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