'Round About Midnight / Well You Needn't
by Thelonious Monk
- Type: Single
- Released: 1948
- Label: Blue Note
- Country: United States
- Community rating: 4.46/5 from 5 ratings
Artists on this release: Edmund Gregory, Gene Ramey, Bob Paige, George Taitt
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Introducing one of the most frequently covered standards in jazz history, this highly lethargic and nocturnal instrumental displays a totally unique harmonic vocabulary. The complex, slightly dissonant chord voicings and unorthodox rhythmic spacing aggressively challenged conventional bebop structures.
Genres
Descriptors: instrumental, acoustic, melodic
Tracklist
Credits
- The Thelonious Monk Quintet - primary artist
- Thelonious Monk Trio - primary artist
- Edmund Gregory - alto saxophone
- Bob Paige - bass
- Art Blakey - drums
- George Taitt - trumpet
- Thelonious Monk - written-by, piano
- Gene Ramey - bass