Round About Midnight - Miles Davis

'Round About Midnight, released in 1957, was Davis's first album for Columbia Records. He signed with the major label while still under contract with Prestige Records, a move that significantly expanded his commercial reach.

The album features Davis's so-called First Great Quintet: John Coltrane on tenor saxophone, Red Garland on piano, Paul Chambers on bass, and Philly Joe Jones on drums. This lineup recorded several landmark albums together before Davis reconfigured the group in the late 1950s.

The composition ''Round Midnight' was written by jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk, with co-credit to Cootie Williams and Bernie Hanighen. Davis's rendition on the 1957 album helped establish the piece as one of the most recorded jazz standards of all time.

The album includes standards like Cole Porter's 'All of You,' the popular 'Bye Bye Blackbird,' and Tadd Dameron's 'Tadd's Delight.' The track listing reflects Davis's transition from pure bebop toward the more modal and lyrical approach he would fully develop on later Columbia albums.