{"id":11951,"date":"2016-10-20T22:57:16","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T01:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/culturedarm.com\/?p=11951"},"modified":"2019-10-16T00:00:08","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T23:00:08","slug":"who-wore-it-best-round-about-midnight-miles-davis-blue-train-john-coltrane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/who-wore-it-best-round-about-midnight-miles-davis-blue-train-john-coltrane\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Wore It Best: &#8216;Round About Midnight Miles Davis vs. Blue Train John Coltrane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12011\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Miles-Davis-John-Coltrane-1.jpg?resize=696%2C464&ssl=1\" alt=\"Miles Davis John Coltrane 1\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Miles-Davis-John-Coltrane-1.jpg?w=1200&ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Miles-Davis-John-Coltrane-1.jpg?resize=300%2C200&ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Miles-Davis-John-Coltrane-1.jpg?resize=768%2C512&ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Miles-Davis-John-Coltrane-1.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Miles-Davis-John-Coltrane-1.jpg?resize=370%2C247&ssl=1 370w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Miles-Davis-John-Coltrane-1.jpg?resize=270%2C180&ssl=1 270w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Miles-Davis-John-Coltrane-1.jpg?resize=570%2C380&ssl=1 570w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Miles-Davis-John-Coltrane-1.jpg?resize=770%2C513&ssl=1 770w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Miles-Davis-John-Coltrane-1.jpg?resize=1170%2C780&ssl=1 1170w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Miles-Davis-John-Coltrane-1.jpg?resize=870%2C580&ssl=1 870w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Miles Davis made his name as a bandleader in the first half of the 1950s, defining the genre of hard bop alongside regular players such as Horace Silver, Kenny Clarke, and Percy Heath, luminaries like J. J. Johnson and a young Sonny Rollins, and briefer and more contentious collaborators including <a href=\"https:\/\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/behind-the-song-charles-mingus-goodbye-pork-pie-hat\/\">Charles Mingus<\/a> and Thelonious Monk. Yet this was also the period\u00a0of\u00a0a deep and painful addiction to heroin, which forced him to take the best part of a year off before he made a return to the recording studio, finally clean, in the spring of 1954.<\/p>\n<p>The following year a performance at the Newport Jazz Festival saw critics heralding the \u2018return of Miles Davis\u2019, and he began to put together his first great quintet. With Davis on trumpet, Red Garland on piano, Paul Chambers on bass, and Philly Joe Jones on drums, the quintet was completed when John Coltrane replaced Sonny Rollins \u2013 who had checked himself into the Federal Medical Center in Lexington, at the time the only drug abuse facility in the United States \u2013 on tenor sax.\u00a0<b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>This was a quintet lacking in experience and exposure, but after meeting with Davis the producer George Avakian had already promised a contract with Columbia Records. Davis still had to fulfill his obligations to Prestige, and he set to work with a session on 16 November 1955 that was released the following April as <em>Miles<\/em>. Then two marathon sessions \u2013 one on 11 May and the other on 26 October 1956 \u2013 produced\u00a0the four albums <em>Cookin\u2019<\/em>, <em>Relaxin\u2019<\/em>, <em>Workin\u2019<\/em>, and <em>Steamin\u2019<\/em>, classics of hard bop\u00a0which would be\u00a0released over the course of the next five years, and Davis\u2019 association with Prestige was complete.<\/p>\n<p>In fact with his final dates for Prestige still to be scheduled, the first recording session undertaken by the fledgeling\u00a0Miles Davis quintet had been for Columbia: as on 26 October 1955, the five band members set upon Columbia 30th Street Studio to begin\u00a0what would appear on 6 March 1957 as <em>\u2018Round About Midnight<\/em>.\u00a0Taking its lead from \u2018Round Midnight\u2019, the song composed in 1944 by Thelonious Monk which Davis had played to great acclaim at the Newport festival, the album was full of jazz standards like \u2018All of You\u2019, \u2018Bye Bye Blackbird\u2019, and \u2018Dear Old Stockholm\u2019, and initially \u2013 in contrast to the four final Prestige issues \u2013 received only a lukewarm response.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-12009 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Round-About-Midnight-Miles-Davis-1.jpg?resize=600%2C600&ssl=1\" alt=\"Round About Midnight Miles Davis 1\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Round-About-Midnight-Miles-Davis-1.jpg?w=1200&ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Round-About-Midnight-Miles-Davis-1.jpg?resize=150%2C150&ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Round-About-Midnight-Miles-Davis-1.jpg?resize=300%2C300&ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Round-About-Midnight-Miles-Davis-1.jpg?resize=768%2C768&ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Round-About-Midnight-Miles-Davis-1.jpg?resize=1024%2C1024&ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Round-About-Midnight-Miles-Davis-1.jpg?resize=370%2C370&ssl=1 370w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Round-About-Midnight-Miles-Davis-1.jpg?resize=570%2C570&ssl=1 570w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Round-About-Midnight-Miles-Davis-1.jpg?resize=770%2C770&ssl=1 770w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Round-About-Midnight-Miles-Davis-1.jpg?resize=1170%2C1170&ssl=1 1170w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Round-About-Midnight-Miles-Davis-1.jpg?resize=580%2C580&ssl=1 580w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The cover of <em>\u2018Round About Midnight<\/em>\u00a0is credited to the influential\u00a0designer S. Neil Fujita, who had arrived at Columbia in 1954 tasked with building a design team capable of competing with Blue Note. Fujita\u2019s painted album covers, on <em>Time Out<\/em> by The Dave Brubeck Quartet and <a href=\"https:\/\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/great-album-covers-mingus-ah-um\/\"><em>Mingus Ah Um<\/em> by Charles Mingus<\/a>, brought abstract expressionism to the world of contemporary jazz, but for \u2018<em>Round About Midnight<\/em> he instead edited a photograph of Davis which had been taken by Marvin Koner. Koner would become famous for his\u00a0narrative photography\u00a0and for the pictures he took of prominent musicians like Davis and Johnny Cash.<\/p>\n<p>S. Neil Fujita\u00a0simply flipped\u00a0and cropped\u00a0Koner\u2019s photograph of Davis, looking pensive, slightly coy, but steadfast as he fingers lightly his trumpet, holding his face in his palm and peering out from behind shades. <a href=\"http:\/\/amodernist.blogspot.co.uk\/2010\/10\/miles-davis-1956.html\">Koner had captured the image under the red lights of Cafe Bohemia<\/a>, adding an enveloping sense of drive and menace not found in typical archival black-and-white. The album cover and Davis\u2019s appearance have become part of his music\u2019s mythology. Decades after the release of <em>\u2018Round About Midnight<\/em>, the jazz critic and founder of <em>Cadence Magazine<\/em> Bob Rusch wrote:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u2018everything about this date, from the black-and-white cover photo, washed in red, of Miles Davis, removed in thought behind dark glasses, to the performances, is classic. Not surprisingly, careful packaging and exquisite artistry have created a legend and, in this case, one of the essential recordings in the history of recorded music.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * *<\/p>\n<p>In April 1957, as a result of his work as part of the Miles Davis quintet, Bob Weinstock of Prestige offered John Coltrane a recording contract, for the first time affording him the opportunity to lead a band of his own. He had just been more or less fired by Davis owing \u2013 in yet another occurrence of a perennial problem in the 1950s jazz scene \u2013 to heroin addiction, although he would reunite with the quintet\u00a0the following January.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime Coltrane took to performing live with Thelonious Monk, developing the \u2018sheets of sound\u2019 style which saw him playing dense lines full of improvised, high-speed arpeggios and scale patterns, and he began to record for Prestige. A flurry\u00a0of sessions between April 1957 and December 1958 eventually yielded\u00a0more than a dozen records under Coltrane\u2019s name, but most of these were released by Prestige in the early-to-mid\u00a01960s, long after Coltrane\u2019s two-year contract had expired.\u00a0Coltrane\u2019s first album as a bandleader was titled simply <em>Coltrane<\/em>, and released by Prestige towards the end of 1957.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the wealth of material he was busy putting to tape, Coltrane\u2019s second album was not on Prestige at all, but instead saw him fulfilling a promise to Alfred Lion and Blue Note Records. <em>Blue Train<\/em>, released in early 1958, was the only album Coltrane ever recorded as a bandleader for Blue Note. The session \u2013 fitted in between a residency at the Five Spot as a member of the Thelonious Monk Quartet \u2013\u00a0took place at the Van Gelder Studio in Hackensack, New Jersey on 15 September 1957, and saw Coltrane playing alongside his Davis quintet colleagues Paul Chambers on bass and Philly Joe Jones on drums, with Kenny Drew on piano, Lee Morgan on trumpet, and Curtis Fuller on trombone rounding out the musicians.<\/p>\n<p>With the exception of \u2018I\u2019m Old Fashioned\u2019, the other tracks on <em>Blue Train<\/em>, including the title cut, were all Coltrane originals. Combining the pulse and sway of hard bop with seamless, slow-paced\u00a0balladry, the album shows a more constrained Coltrane than would emerge a couple of years later on <em>Giant Steps<\/em>, but <em>Blue Train<\/em> stands as the artist\u2019s first major work as a bandleader, and features the flourishing\u00a0instances of what would become known as the Coltrane changes, his\u00a0tendency to alter\u00a0common chord progressions by descending in major thirds. The review of <em>Blue Train<\/em> by Lindsay Planer of AllMusic states:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u2018Without reservation, Blue Train can easily be considered in and among the most important and influential entries not only of John Coltrane\u2019s career, but of the entire genre of jazz music as well.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-12010 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Blue-Train-John-Coltrane-2.jpg?resize=600%2C600&ssl=1\" alt=\"Blue Train John Coltrane 2\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Blue-Train-John-Coltrane-2.jpg?w=1200&ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Blue-Train-John-Coltrane-2.jpg?resize=150%2C150&ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Blue-Train-John-Coltrane-2.jpg?resize=300%2C300&ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Blue-Train-John-Coltrane-2.jpg?resize=768%2C768&ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Blue-Train-John-Coltrane-2.jpg?resize=1024%2C1024&ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Blue-Train-John-Coltrane-2.jpg?resize=370%2C370&ssl=1 370w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Blue-Train-John-Coltrane-2.jpg?resize=570%2C570&ssl=1 570w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Blue-Train-John-Coltrane-2.jpg?resize=770%2C770&ssl=1 770w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Blue-Train-John-Coltrane-2.jpg?resize=1170%2C1170&ssl=1 1170w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Blue-Train-John-Coltrane-2.jpg?resize=580%2C580&ssl=1 580w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Reid Miles designed the <em>Blue Train<\/em> album cover, around a photograph of the artist taken in Hackensack by Francis Wolff. Wolff had been\u00a0childhood friends with Alfred Lion, the co-founder and head of Blue Note, and he helped Lion in the running of the\u00a0label, focusing on the finances while supervising and taking photographs of recording sessions.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Blue Train<\/em> cover shares marked similarities with Fujita\u2019s cover for <em>\u2018Round About Midnight<\/em>. Coltrane too appears pensive, although he seems more wistful, more malleable than Davis, eschewing a jacket for a loose-fitting polo shirt, his instrument to his left while the index finger of his right hand\u00a0lingers across his lower lip. His eyes gaze downwards rather than straight ahead, and his left hand, rather than clutching at his saxophone, reaches behind his head. The cover\u2019s blue wash was ostensibly inspired by Picasso\u2019s Blue Period, although Davis had persevered through a Blue Period of his own in the early 1950s, and the following year, on 17 August 1959, would release his masterpiece of modal jazz\u00a0<em>Kind of Blue<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miles Davis made his name as a bandleader in the first half of the 1950s, defining the genre of hard bop alongside regular players such as Horace Silver, Kenny Clarke, and Percy Heath, luminaries like J. J. Johnson and a young Sonny Rollins, and briefer and more contentious collaborators including Charles Mingus and Thelonious Monk. 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