'Round Midnight- Miles Davis
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- 'Round Midnight- Miles Davies
- Context
- Recorded 10 September 1956 in New York
- Columbia Records
- From 'Round About Midnight
- Melody written by Thelonius Monk
- Instruments
- Trumpet: Miles Davis
- Tenor Saxophone: John Coltrane
- Piano: Red Garland
- String Bass: Paul Chambers
- Drum Kit: Philly Joe Jones
- Structure and features
- Introduction: 8 bars
- Intro has whole band playing.
- Davis' muted trumpet plays almost sequential melody, 2 beat rhythm played 3 times, bass leading harmonic rhythm.
- Piano, bass and drums take over with offbeat semiquaver rhythm grouped in ones and twos, double time
- Chorus 1: 32 bars
- Back to feeling of 2, several sections in double time; combines straight and shuffle rhythms
- Trumpet still muted, stem taken out; drums played with brushes
- 4x8 bar phrases, AABA
- Interlude: 4 bars
- Piano plays alone, before all instruments join in playing straight rhythmic stabs, homophonic, polyrhythmic
- Chorus 2: 32 bars
- Tenor sax solo, more virtuosic, develops melodic ideas through scalic patterns
- Bass plays walking bass; whole drum kit used
- Outro: 4 bars
- Muted trumpet returns, tenor sax plays counter-melody underneath
- Back in 2 time; drum uses stick on cymbal brush on drum
- Introduction: 8 bars
- Context
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