Davis, Miles - Round About Midnight (Numbered, 180 Gram, Mono, Mobile Fidelity)

 Hipness Personified: Miles Davis' Columbia Records Debut, 'Round About Midnight Blows Cool and Hot Jazz with Famed Quintet Lifelike Presence and Immediacy: Sourced from the Original Master Tapes, Mobile Fidelity's 180g Vinyl LP Presents Music in Direct Mono Sound Miles Davis' first album for Columbia, ‘Round About Midnight, represents both the beginning of a three-plus-decade relationship with the famed label as well as the start of an extended collaboration with then-unknown saxophonist John Coltrane. As one of the era's only complete start-to-finish full-length LPs, the 1957 set stands as a hard-bop benchmark – a summation of the styles that came before its creation, an immersion into the period's cutting-edge strains, and a hint of the modalism that would follow.  Sourced from the original master tapes, Mobile Fidelity's numbered-edition 180g vinyl LOP traces the individual paths each musician takes in contributing to the whole, whether it's pianist Red Garland's left hand spinning