Jazz
Soundtrack buffs may know that this score to director Bertrand Tavernier's alluring jazz period piece inexplicably won the 1986 Oscar for best soundtrack instead of Morricone and his rich, enduring music for The Mission. That injustice aside, it remains a worthy collage of vintage jazz standards, new material, and contemporary performers, as filtered through the spirit of the story's main character (an amalgam of Bud Powell and Lester Young) and the '50s Paris jazz scene. It's also a tribute to Round Midnight musical director Herbie Hancock, with his crucial understanding that jazz--and especially bebop--can never stand on tradition, lest it lose its very reason for being. Thus he lets then-newcomer Bobby McFerrin loose on Monk's moody title track, gives vet Chet Baker's horn and voice a warm turn in the spotlight on "Fair Weather," and allows Lonette McKee and star Dexter Gordon to infuse Gershwin's "How Long Has This Been Going On" with some languorous, subtly sexual heat. Other highlights include a romp through Monk's "Rhythm-a-Ning," Hancock's tense, modernist "Berangere's Nightmare," and the spare, enchanting duet with Bobby Hutcherson, "Minuit aux Champs-Elysees." Remarkably, most of the film's music was recorded live on the set, giving it a compelling warmth and immediacy that's increasingly rare. This new edition features expanded liner notes as well as a bonus cut of the title track performed by Dexter Gordon's quintet live at the Village Vanguard in 1967.
By Jerry McCulley.
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The album won the 1986 Oscar for best soundtrack for the same-titled film, Dexter Gordon starring. Most of the film's music was recorded live on the set, giving it a compelling warmth and immediacy that's increasingly rare. This new edition features expanded liner notes as well as a bonus cut of the title track performed by Dexter Gordon's quintet live at the Village Vanguard in 1967.
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01. Round Midnight
Composed by Thelonious Monk
with Ron Carter, Bobby McFerrin, Tony Williams, Herbie Hancock
02. Body and Soul
Composed by Johnny Green
with John McLaughlin, Pierre Michelot, Billy Higgins, Herbie Hancock, Dexter Gordon
03. Bérangére's Nightmare (for the film Round Midnight)
Composed by Herbie Hancock
with John McLaughlin, Pierre Michelot, Billy Higgins, Herbie Hancock
04. Fair Weather
Composed by K. Dorham
with Chet Baker, Pierre Michelot, Billy Higgins, Herbie Hancock
05. Una Noche con Francis
Composed by Bud Powell
with Wayne Shorter, Pierre Michelot, Bobby Hutcherson, Billy Higgins, Herbie Hancock, Dexter Gordon
06. The Peacocks
Composed by Jimmy Rowles
with Wayne Shorter, Pierre Michelot, Billy Higgins, Herbie Hancock
07. How Long Has This Been Going On? (from Rosalie, musical)
Composed by George Gershwin
with Pierre Michelot, Billy Higgins, Lonette McKee, Herbie Hancock, Dexter Gordon
08. Rhythm-a-ning
Composed by Thelonious Monk
with Ron C. [bass] Carter, Cedar Walton, Tony Williams, Freddie Hubbard, Dexter Gordon
09. Still Time (for the film Round Midnight)
Composed by Herbie Hancock
with Ron C. [bass] Carter, Pierre Michelot, Billy Higgins, Tony Williams, Herbie Hancock, Dexter Gordon
10. Minuit Aux Champs-Elysées (for the film Round Midnight)
Composed by Henri Renaud
with Bobby Hutcherson, Herbie Hancock
11. Chan's Song (Never Said) (for the film Round Midnight)
Composed by Stevie Wonder, Herbie Hancock
with Ron Carter, Bobby McFerrin, Tony Williams, Herbie Hancock
12. Round Midnight (bonus track)
Composed by Thelonious Monk
with Ronnie Mathews, Woody Shaw, Stafford James, Louis Hayes, Dexter Gordon
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