{"product_id":"davis-miles-round-about-midnight-2026-reissue","title":"Davis, Miles - Round About Midnight (2026 Reissue)","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nThis performance immediately drew the attention of Columbia Records' George Avakian, who was so impressed that he immediately offered Davis a contract\nif 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\non tenor sax, Red Garland on piano, Philly Joe Jones on drums, Paul Chambers on bass and of course Miles himself on trumpet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eRound About Midnight\u003c\/i\u003e is Miles Davis' first record for Columbia and also the first studio recording of the First Great Quintet. The recording sessions began on\nOctober 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\nSteamin', Workin', Cookin' and Relaxin'; albums that would go down in history as quintessential blueprints of late 1950s hard bop.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nThe record is made up of a collection of standards and one traditional song (\"Dear Old Stockholm\", from the 19th century).\nNotably, it features what may be considered the most well-known versions of Thelonious Monk's \"'Round Midnight\" and \"Bye Bye Blackbird\".\nThat Avakian made a golden signing was sufficiently clear from the start, but no one could foresee that it would be this quintet on\nColumbia that would go on to change the course of modern jazz forever with Kind of Blue.","brand":"Music On Vinyl","offers":[{"title":"Crystal Clear LP","offer_id":51000293884182,"sku":"RMX-61514","price":31.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0839\/7750\/2998\/files\/1e1b5d6211f5d8879ec9b093dbd1f9bb.png?v=1769786108","url":"https:\/\/resident-music-uk.myshopify.com\/products\/davis-miles-round-about-midnight-2026-reissue","provider":"Resident Music UK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}