Round Midnight - Dexter Gordon

Dexter Gordon - tenor sax;
Woody Shaw - trumpet;
Ronnie Mathews - piano;
Stafford James - bass;
Louis Hayes - drums;

Recorded December 11-12, 1976 at the Village Vanguard, NYC

[olebirgerpedersen]

I became a good friend of Dexters when he lived in Copenhagen. Later we also met in Paris when he played in " Le Chat qui peche" we had some very good and funny days together. I miss him.

[frizza]

Started the love affair with this song...R.I.P pop pop...you taught me how to dig the groove..

[richardseegman]

I saw Dexter Gordon live in a small jazz club in Manhattan at least 30 years ago. We were very close to the stage. He was amazing. I will never forget it!!!

[patsirianni]

The Cool Tall Man who educated me to love Jazz and showed me Class

[johnhextall]

That tone is like nothing else ever recorded. So good.

[gerardfagan]

This is a wonderful recording, I would have loved to hear Dexter play live .

[TheShabazzProduction]

Perfectly blown!!!! The sound of a mature Blackman.

[gerardfagan]

Nerver got to see Dexter, what a wonderful player.

[jerrybauer]

These are the people I´ve been hanging out with at one time or another

[sorinantohi]

Thanks, Poet 2! It brought me back to our early youth. Remember, you bought the record (on the black market, of course, as we were living in Communist Romania), and we couldn't stop listening to it over and over...

[warriordog]

My dream has always been to open a cool spot, call it Round Midnight, I would hire different Jazz arities to come perform, as you enter my joint you will be greeted with Blue lights dark shadows that hugged the walls like a jealousy lover to the exposed brick wall, ...the cool cat's greeting you "table for two" as me the announcer steps on stage and the spot light hits my silhouette dressed in dark blue with dark sun glasses on....I slowly walk up to the mic shape in the 40tis style and whisper into it's steel lips..."Welcome...too...Round Midnight...today rendition of Round Midnight, a legend in our his quartet ....Remember to stay awake until the air craft has come to a complete stop, Next time you fly, Fly round midnight ... ....

[marcellomentasimonsennico]

This was probably about the third or fourth (among many dozens) of versions of "Round Midnight" I have met during all these decades, back in 1980. The first was by Miles and Coltrane (1956), the second was by the Modern Jazz Quartet (1960). I came acquainted with Monk's original 1947 version only one year latter, in 1981. "Round Midnight" is one of those tunes that Jazz connaisseurs really collect; many different versions by many of the Giants.

[tomasvanecek]

Always loved his tone - robust and bold, with almost take-no-prisoners attitude ;)
Firm grip on what was going on.. Trane´s sound IMO was very close, but with
lot of meandering.. Dexter kept it simple, never overplaying - same like Sonny Rollins

[SATOSHEEEE]

Woody Shaw played the flugelhorn made by Bach.

[lajosszilagyi]

Kissé túl van artikulálva a Már már nem is az "éjféli forgás" a lényeg, hanem a technikai bravúr, ami viszont fantasztikus . Gordon és Shaw szólisták sziporkáznak, de elrugaszkodva a témától az improvizációban, ami már a Monk utáni Th.Monk mítoszt jelenítik meg. A világ leglíraibb jazzmelódiája a jazztörténet legkiválóbb előadói lelkét is lángra lobbantotta...Különös, hogy nekem-mint jazzkedvelőnek-Monk nem volt a igazán a szívem csücske mint előadó... Mégis a Round Midniht a legkedvesebb melódiám.. Monk csinált valami örökkévaló szépséget, ami felejthetetlen...