Miles Davis
'Round About Midnight
Mobile Fidelity
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Miles Davis / 'Round About Midnight (Original Master Recording)
(Mobile Fidelity 180g 33RPM Mono SuperVinyl LP)
Miles Davis’ ‘Round About Midnight marked his 1957 Columbia debut and introduced his First Great Quintet with John Coltrane, Red Garland, Paul Chambers, and Philly Joe Jones. A landmark of hard bop, the album moves effortlessly between intimate balladry, bebop, and swinging standards, highlighted by Davis’ definitive interpretation of Thelonious Monk’s “‘Round Midnight,” along with “Bye Bye Blackbird,” “All of You,” and “Ah-Leu-Cha.”
Sourced from the original master tapes and mastered by Krieg Wunderlich with assistance from Shawn R. Britton, Mobile Fidelity’s numbered-edition 180g 33RPM mono LP is pressed on MoFi SuperVinyl and housed in a Stoughton jacket. Its ultra-low noise floor and exceptional groove definition bring remarkable transparency, presence, and focus to the original mono recording, revealing the rich tone of Davis’ trumpet, Coltrane’s exploratory saxophone, and the intricate interplay of the quintet.
Recorded across three sessions at Columbia’s legendary 30th Street Studio, ‘Round About Midnight captures Davis at the beginning of a transformative period in both his career and modern jazz. Its combination of sophisticated arrangements, expressive improvisation, and unmistakable late-night atmosphere remains an essential document of the First Great Quintet.
- ‘Round Midnight
- Ah-Leu-Cha
- All of You
- Bye Bye Blackbird
- Tadd’s Delight
- Dear Old Stockholm
