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Herbie Hanccock: Round Midnight [Original Soundtrack]

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Label: Columbia Records
Released: 1986.02.12
Time:
 51:14
Category: Jazz
Producer(s): Herbie Hancock
Rating: ********.. (8/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.herbiehancock.com
Appears with: Chick Corea, Jack de Johnette
Purchase date: 2001.03.13
Price in €: 9,99



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[1] 'Round Midnight (Hanighen/Monk/Williams) - 5:36
[2] Body and Soul (Eaton/Eaton/Green/Heyman) - 5:54
[3] Bérangère's Nightmare (Hancock) - 3:06
[4] Fair Weather (Dorham) - 6:05
[5] Una Noche con Francis (Powell) - 4:23
[6] The Peacocks (Rowles) - 7:16
[7] How Long Has This Been Going? (Gershwin/Gershwin) - 3:13
[8] Rhythm-A-Ning (Monk) - 4:11
[9] Still Time (Hancock) - 3:51
[10] Minuit aux Champs-Elysées (Renaud) - 3:25
[11] Chan's Song [Never Said] (Hancock/Wonder) - 4:14

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Herbie Hancock - Piano on [1]-[6], [8]-[11]

John McLaughlin - Guitar on [2],[3]
Bobby McFerrin - Vocals on [1],[11]
Chet Baker - Trumpet, Vocals on [4]
Dexter Gordon - Soprano Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone on [2],[5],[7]-[9]
Ron Carter - Bass on [1],[8],[12]
Billy Higgins - Drums on [2]-[7],[9]
Pierre Michelot - Bass on [2]-[7],[9]
Wayne Shorter - Soprano Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone on [5],[6]
Tony Williams - Drums on [1],[8],[12]
Bobby Hutcherson - Vibraphone on [5],[10]
Freddie Hubbard - Trumpet on [8]
Lonette McKee - Vocals on [7]
Cedar Walton - Piano on [8]

William Flageollet - Recording, Mixing
Wally Traugott - Mastering
Tony Meilandt - Music Coordination, Management
Steve Chorney - Cover Art
 

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CD Columbia CK-40464
CS Columbia SCT-40464



The movie:
Inside the Blue Note nightclub one night in 1959 Paris, an aged, ailing jazzman coaxes an eloquent wail form his tenor sax. Outside, a young Parisian too broke to buy a glass of wine strains to hear those notes. Soon they will form a friendship that sparks a final burst of genius in the fading musician. Round Midnight, set to Herbie Hancock's superb Academy Award-winning Best Original Score, is an elegant ode to bebop -- the technically demanding jazz that blossomed during the postwar era -- and to the expatriate black Americans who created, nurtured and lived it. Directed by Bertrand Tavernier and showcasing tenor sax great Dexter Gordon in a remarkable performance, Round Midnight is an awesome musical journey.



This is the official soundtrack from the movie Round Midnight. Although tenor-saxophonist Dexter Gordon (who is only actually on five of the 11 songs) was past his prime, his realistic acting gained him a nomination for an Oscar. In addition to Gordon, this historic and generally well-rounded album has performances by pianists Herbie Hancock and Cedar Walton, vocalist Bobby McFerrin, bassists Ron Carter and Pierre Michelot, drummers Tony Williams and Billy Higgins, guitarist John McLaughlin, trumpeters Freddie Hubbard and Chet Baker, Wayne Shorter on tenor and soprano, vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson and a vocal by Lonette McKee.

Scott Yanow - All-Music Guide



Bertrand Tavernier's Round Midnight is that rarity: one of a handful of films about jazz generally accepted as bearing some verisimilitude. Not the least reason for this is tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon's portrayal of Dale Turner, an American expatriate jazzman adrift in 1950s Paris. The script combines elements of Lester Young's life with the true story of Bud Powell and Francis Paudras' friendship. And if some of the dialogue is clichéd and leaden, the film, nevertheless, tells a bittersweet story of art and at least temporary redemption. The music selected by Herbie Hancock successfully evokes the period, performed live by a crack band that includes John McLaughlin, Bobby Hutcherson, Pierre Michelot, and Billy Higgins. Dexter Gordon's performance as Turner, for which he received an Academy Award nomination, did not end with the script. His first musical performance, on "As Time Goes By," is slow, drowsy, and limited in range, but as the film progresses, Gordon's playing gains strength, pairing with Wayne Shorter on Powell's jaunty "Una Noche con Francis" and trading fiery licks with Freddie Hubbard in the film's climactic return to New York City. Two mesmerizing pieces not performed on-screen, Kenny Dorham's "Fair Weather" (sung with breathtaking fragility by Chet Baker) and Jimmy Rowles' "The Peacocks," are woven throughout the film, adding immeasurably to the melancholy cinematography.
Long before it became de rigeur to release multiple soundtracks for a single film, Columbia allowed Blue Note to release The Other Side of Round Midnight under Gordon's name. The additional album offers more music from the film, including Gordon's sole performance on soprano sax, "Tivoli" - incidentally the only track in the score not played by the same musicians seen in the film - and further outtakes that breathe the same heady atmosphere.

Steve Smith - JAZZIZ Magazine
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