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Today’s Thursday Jazz Session comes from one of jazz’s most loving and inspirational contributors, Thelonious Monk. The song entitled “Round Midnight” is a jazz standard thought to have been composed somewhere around 1944. Monk’s subtle key strokes have always been some of the most prolific to the genre.

Miles Davis fell in love with the track and actually used it as an inspirational note when he put together his album Round About Midnight (1957). More so than that, Davis performed this number with Monk in 1955 and that is believed to be the key performance that landed Davis a record deal and, in time, notoriety as one of jazz’s greats.

Sit back. Enjoy. Here is Thelonious Monk‘s romantic and breezy “Round Midnight“.

Thelonious Monk-”Round Midnight”