'Round About Midnight

The Autumn Concert series at Hanover Hall continues this March with Ralph Miller and his Quintet celebrating 100 years since the birth of legendary trumpeter Miles Davis. Marking the moment at which Miles became the most famous and revered figure in jazz, Miller’s quintet will perform the iconic album “Round About Midnight” in full, a record that was released in 1957 and is characterised by Davis’ unique muted sound and restrained melodic improvisations. Completing the band on the night will be tenor saxophonist Gwyn Reynolds from Christchurch, club-director and pianist Bill Martin, double bassist Daniel Potter and local drummer Carl Woodward. The second set will feature a selection of iconic Davis compositions and arrangements that show his development from the bebop of the 1940s to the modal and free jazz of the 1950s and 1960s.

Davis was famously heard at the 1955 Newport Jazz Festival performing Thelonious Monk’s “Round Midnight”…