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show you any stinkin' badges!
As an add-on to your question Doug, I heard a male vocalist do a version
of it. I don't know who the guy was, so maybe if anyone knows of one
they could post that info too, and perhaps I'll chance on the answer
to my question too.
Thanks,
ciao
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Mike
"To commit the perfect crime, you don't have to be intelligent,
just in charge of the investigation that follows."
> Douglas Crowell (dcro...@bu.edu) wrote:
> : Alot of people resopnded to my "Favorite Summertime" post so I thought
> : I'd do another one. Another song I play (or should I say try to play) every
> : day is "Round Midnight". I think it is one of the most beautiful tunes ever
> : written and it is a good way to shut up all those people who think that monk
> : can only play "wierd" music. I love the original monk version, and I dig
> : miles's too. I think the tune goes just as well on piano and trumpet. I also
> : can't seem to get it out of my head, I whistle it all day long. So what are
> : your favorite versions of this bop standard?
> : Doug Crowell
>
> As an add-on to your question Doug, I heard a male vocalist do a version
> of it. I don't know who the guy was, so maybe if anyone knows of one
> they could post that info too, and perhaps I'll chance on the answer
> to my question too.
>
Ernie Andrews does a helluva "Round Midnight".
- June Christy sings it on the CD _The_Misty_Miss_Christy_ (Capitol)
- Julie London sang it on the album _Around_Midnight_, (1960).
The song appears on the CD _Time_for_Love,_the_Best_of_Julie_London_ (Rhino)
Both performances are excellent.
a bass player I asked about this agrees with you re: Monk's own version,
and the Miles version with Coltrane, Cannonball, Red Garland and Paul
Chambers.
Recommends also Bud Powell Paris trio recording;
and for vocal version try the late, great Carmen McRae.
Nancy D.
My favorite used to be of course Miles and Trane, which was the definitive
version even though someone else wrote it. But when "Straight, No Chaser"
(the CD and movie) came out, I concluded that no one has ever done it better
than Monk himself at that one time. I swear, I have never heard someone get so
much music out of _one_note_, perfectly placed, just unbelievable. I'm
speaking of the version where Nica is speaking about his death, and you can't
hardly hear the playing. I think you get all of it on the video though. If
anyone think that's a strange nomination, I invite you to listen again. Monk
plays sparingly almost with one finger at times because he has something in his
other hand. And it's the things he pulls out of his hat when he get's behind
the time that's amazing. Then listen to the latin part after the coda, when
Charlie Rouse comes in. Whew! I mean, just listen to each and every note that
man plays. It's a masterpiece, the most famous jazz song of all time, I
believe.* Miles and Trane would have to bow.
Idris
*along with Stardust and Body & Soul.
> Alot of people resopnded to my "Favorite Summertime" post so I thought
> I'd do another one. Another song I play (or should I say try to play) every
> day is "Round Midnight".
New York Voices does a good vocal version.
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My favorite 'round midnight is the Wes Montgomery version on his first
riverside album, "The Wes Montgomery Trio". Wes slightly reharmonized
the tune and added a little ending of his own. Also, there was a record
released, I believe, sometime in the early 80's with about 8 different
versions of 'round midnight, including solo Monk, Miles, Wes, and some
others I don't remember.
Alex Matro
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> ... Also, there was a record released, I believe, sometime in the early
80's with
> about 8 different versions of 'round midnight, including solo Monk,
Miles,
> Wes, and some others I don't remember.
_'Round Midnight_, Milestone MCD-9144-2, Monk (solo and sextet), Miles,
Stan Getz, Art Pepper, Bill Evans, Ron Carter, Wes Montgomery.
Good one.
> Alex Matro
Cheers, Fred Klingener
> One of my favorite versions of Round Midnight is from a sort of non-standard
> source. There is a group in the SF Bay Area that continues the work of
> Django Reinhardt' Quintet of the Hot Club of France. On their self published
> album entitled simply "QHCSF", the Q. of the Hot Club of San Francisco does
> what I think is a really interesting Round Midnight.
> pd...@nmt.edu
Yes. These guys are great! I have the QHCSF CD as well as their other one
that has them (Hot Club Of SF) and guest musicians/singers. The name of this
CD escapes me for the moment. Both superb though.
Nigel.
Although it isn't my favorite, the opening take of James Carter's new Atlantic CD has Carter
on baritone sax and Craig Taiborn (sp??) on piano. Carter is a monster, and performs a very
nice example of circular breathing on that massive instrument.
On my radio show last Saturday I paired a 1958 take of 'Round Midnight by Sun Ra (Hattir
Randolph-vcl) with the new James Carter and received nice comments from the listeners.
I'd be interested in other BN'ters' favorite takes of this classic.
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Mark
> > Douglas Crowell (dcro...@bu.edu) wrote:
> > : Alot of people resopnded to my "Favorite Summertime" post so I
thought
> > : I'd do another one. Another song I play (or should I say try to
play) every
> > : day is "Round Midnight". I think it is one of the most beautiful
tunes ever
> > : written and it is a good way to shut up all those people who think
that monk
> > : can only play "wierd" music. I love the original monk version, and I dig
> > : miles's too. I think the tune goes just as well on piano and
trumpet. I also
> > : can't seem to get it out of my head, I whistle it all day long. So
what are
> > : your favorite versions of this bop standard?
> > : Doug Crowell
> >
The T.S. Monk band (Monk's son's band) does an interesting arrangement of
it on they're first album. Several tempo changes and good solos.
Victor vdg...@pitt.edu
I was just writing a thread about Jimmy Smith and I remembered that
when I saw him live recently his guitarist, Ed Cherry, did a solo version of
'Round Midnight that almost stole the show. It was so good that I saw a number
of people in the audience crying by the time he had finshed the tune.
Doug Crowell
From what I have heard of Jimmy Smith, he probably fired the guitarist after
that set. He seems to be among the more egotistical musicians in the business
today.
The arrangment played by Dexter Gordon and the band in the movie 'Round
Midnight get an uh-huh from me.
Pete
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: I find that hard to believe, he seems so nice. Also, from what I saw
he really dug Cherry's solo 'round Midnight.
Doug Crowell
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I know that not all of you are too fond of Wynton, but I just
remembered that he did a really good version of 'round midnight(with a little
help from herbie hancock). It's not my favorite, but it's real good. I don't
know what album it's on. I have it on one of the myriad of hancock
collections.
Doug Crowell
Now I write:
Check the issue of Down Beat from 1 or 2 months ago, which featured an interview
with Smith. Now check the Letters to the Editor page of the current issue, in
which outrage is expressed over Smith's claim that guitarists need to be told
how to play... He also puts down or condescends to virtually every other
organist in the biz, claiming that if they're any good, they got everything
they know from him.
GM
: Now I write:
: GM
:
: Wow. He looks so nice. Thats a pretty gross thing to say about
guitarists. It's sort of egotistical for him to say that all organists got
everything they know from him, but then again what organist wouldn't list
Jimmy Smith as a major influence?
Doug Crowell
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Speaking of Round Midnight and Jimmy Smith; I think he did a version with
Wes Montgomery that has some real nice moments.
--Jeff
Idris
> > I know that not all of you are too fond of Wynton, but I just
> >remembered that he did a really good version of 'round midnight(with a little
> >help from herbie hancock). It's not my favorite, but it's real good. I don't
> >know what album it's on. I have it on one of the myriad of hancock
> >collections.
> > Doug Crowell
> >
> Herbie Hancock - VSOP (not the original VSOP). Double album set. I have it.
> That was actually the *first* 'Round Midnite I ever heard, back in 1980. I
> heard Mile's shortly thereafter, and that's when I though Wynton was better
> than Miles. I remember those day's clearly... Certainly glad rmb wasn't
> around then for me to voice that opinion...
>
> Idris
You know it buddy. We can't let anyone get away with that kind of nonsense.
--Jeff
John Barr
> I know that not all of you are too fond of Wynton, but I just
> remembered that he did a really good version of 'round midnight(with a little
> help from herbie hancock). It's not my favorite, but it's real good. I don't
> know what album it's on. I have it on one of the myriad of hancock
> collections.
It's on "Herbie Hancock Quartet", which I think is a fantastic album, although
it stretches a bit too long to fit on on LP or CD, so it ends up being a rather
skimpy double album.
The alternate chords in the fourth bar of my transcription (with the ascending
bass line forming polychords against the ii-V-s) were from this version.
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Chick Corea - Bobby Mc Ferrin in "PLAY"
that's one of the best I know.
Hancock - Dexter Gordon
"Round Midnight" on the Film Soundtrack.
ObeliX
> Hancock - Dexter Gordon
> "Round Midnight" on the Film Soundtrack.
>
> ObeliX
Actually, ObeliX,
On the film soundtrack, it's Hancock and McFerrin...
McFerrin doing the vocal trumpet imitation.
Jim "I second that Motian" Kuemmerle
jkue...@weird.biol.trinity.edu
I don't know, that Monk dude did a couple of nice versions of
"'Round Midnight." A friend of mine suggests the one on _Live
at the Jazz Workshop." I like the 20 minute "in progress" piece
on _Thelonious Monk Himself_ - it's like being a part of the
creative process. And the one on _Live ath the Blackhawk_.
And Miles...
William
Anachronic Jazz Band [Anachronic Jazz Band]
(an eccentric vocal version by a band which specialised in adapting bop
tunes to Dixieland - hence the group's name)
Anniversary [Georges Arvanitas]
A day with Art Blakey Volume 2 [Art Blakey]
Meet you at the jazz corner of the world Volume 1 [Art Blakey]
Giant steps [Jaki Byard]
Miles Davis & Sonny Stitt live in Stockholm 1960 [Miles Davis]
Miles Davis and the modern jazz giants [Miles Davis]
Miles Davis with John Coltrane [Miles Davis]
Miles in Amsterdam [Miles Davis] (with Barney Wilen)
California here I come [Bill Evans]
Conversations with myself [Bill Evans]
Time remembered [Bill Evans]
Trio '65 [Bill Evans]
Pacific Standard Time [Gil Evans]
Clap hands here comes Charlie [Ella Fitzgerald]
Fine and mellow [Ella Fitzgerald]
Birdland sessions 1952 [Stan Getz]
Poetry [Stan Getz] (duets with Albert Dailey)
Stan Getz in Europe 1958 [Stan Getz]
The complete recordings of the Stan Getz Quintet with Jimmy Raney [Stan Getz]
Something old something new [Dizzy Gillespie]
The legendary Dizzy Gillespie [Dizzy Gillespie]
Green Street [Grant Green]
Al Haig Trio and Quintet [Al Haig]
Bengt Hallberg ay Gyllene Cirkeln [Bengt Hallberg]
Herbie Hancock quartet (with Wynton Marsalis)
Hampton Hawes, Vol. 2: the trio [Hampton Hawes]
Jazz date [Tubby Hayes]
Memories of Thelonious Sphere Monk [Milt Jackson]
Milt Jackson quartet [Milt Jackson] (the MJQ before it became the Modern
Jazz Quartet)
Cookin' time [Howard McGhee]
Modern Jazz Quartet in concert [Modern Jazz Quartet]
Live in Stockholm 1961 [Thelonious Monk]
Mulligan meets Monk [Thelonious Monk]
Pure Monk [Thelonious Monk]
The complete Blue Note recordings of Thelonious Monk [Thelonious Monk]
Thelonious Monk Quartet plus two at the Blackhawk [Thelonious Monk]
Round midnight [Wes Montgomery]
Solitude [Wes Montgomery]
Stretching out live in '65 [Wes Montgomery]
Bird and Diz [Charlie Parker]
Groovin' high [Charlie Parker]
Art Pepper + Eleven: modern jazz classics [Art Pepper]
Freedom song [Oscar Peterson]
Blue Note Cafe Paris, 1961 [Bud Powell]
The genius of Bud Powell (Volume 2) [Bud Powell] (Verve 1950's)
The CBS jazz piano collection - Teddy Wilson [Teddy Wilson]
Good listening,
Dave Harrison
> > Hancock - Dexter Gordon
> > "Round Midnight" on the Film Soundtrack.
> >
> > ObeliX
> Actually, ObeliX,
> On the film soundtrack, it's Hancock and McFerrin...
> McFerrin doing the vocal trumpet imitation.
That's on the Warner Brother's version of the soundtrack. The Blue Note album
"The Other Side Of Round Midnight", usually listed under Dexter's name, also
features music from the soundtrack; the latter album contains the version with
Dexter (and Wayne Shorter, and two bass players on the melody). It also has a
nice solo version by Herbie Hancock.
> Douglas Crowell (dcro...@bu.edu) wrote:
> : Alot of people resopnded to my "Favorite Summertime" post so I
thought
> : I'd do another one. Another song I play (or should I say try to play)
every
> : day is "Round Midnight". I think it is one of the most beautiful tunes
ever
> : written and it is a good way to shut up all those people who think
that monk
> : can only play "wierd" music. I love the original monk version, and I
dig
> : miles's too. I think the tune goes just as well on piano and trumpet.
I also
> : can't seem to get it out of my head, I whistle it all day long. So
what are
> : your favorite versions of this bop standard?
I dig the Dexter Gordon version on "The Other Side of 'Round Midnight",
but probably my favorite one of all time is Ron Carter, from his 1980
album "Parfait". It's also on a 1986 compilation "'Round Midnight:
Outstanding Versions of the Great Jazz Classic" which features 8 versions
of the tune.
Anyway, Ron Carter is cool, he's got somebody named Leon Maleson on double
bass, so RC takes the melody on piccolo bass. The warmth and roundness of
his tone is extremely well suited to the sublime Monk ballad, this one
definitely gets my vote.
How about Monk's original (? the one that shows up on _The Complete Blue Note
Recordings Of. . ._), with that absolutely wacky, gorgeously Monkish sax harmony?
--Tony Cabral (st00...@brown.edu)
Of course, I love Monk's original recording, with that freaky, gorgeously
Monkish harmony with the tenor sax in bar 3!!
--Antonio Cabral (st00...@brown.edu)
How many tunes to you know that are in e flat minor?!
Claire Fischers "Pensativa" is also a great toon. There is also a
transcription of his original lead sheet in Keyboard magazine years ago.
It is outrageous. G flat, another good key.
sincerely,
Paul Reichle lll
As for recordings with Monk, my favorite is the solo he did on Riverside/
Prestige/Whatever in the late 50s. When Monk plays his own tunes I often
times like him solo, so you get "Monk undiluted"; however, I'm also
bonkers about many of the collaboration albums, esp. before he got to
Columbia.
John
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Hmm.....is this an informal survey or are votes actually being tallied? I guess Is
>As a guitar player I'm somewhat biased but nevertheless I'd like to
>contribute to this thread. My favourite is Stefan Grossman and John
>Renbourn's acoustic guitar version on The Three Kingdoms.
As a panpiper, I have to say that Zamfir's version rules.
How about Miles' w/Coltrane on I believe its called "Miles Davis and The
Jazz Giants".
This song is included as a CD bonus track on a CD that features Monk,
Milt Jackson and the rest of the material from the great Bag's Groove
session.
James.
Tom
John
But the recent version by James Carter on barytone sax with piano only is
positively a GREAT version. That's on "The Real Quietstorm".
Gege
Gerald Poirier in Baie-Comeau, Quebec