The composers included Roberto Andreoni, Milton Babbitt, Alberto Barbero, Carlo Boccadoro, William Bolcom, David Crumb, George Crumb, Michael Daugherty, Filippo Del Corno, John Harbison, Joel Hoffman, Aaron Jay Kernis, Gerald Levinson, Tobias Picker, Matthew Quayle, Frederic Rzewski, Augusta Read Thomas and Michael Torke. In 2002, Italian pianist Emanuele Arciuli commissioned a number of composers to create the Round Midnight Variations. The soundtrack by Herbie Hancock prominently features the song "'Round Midnight" along with a number of other jazz standards and a handful of original pieces written by Hancock. In 1986, the song was used as the title for the film Round Midnight which starred veteran saxophonist Dexter Gordon in a fictional story about an expatriate American jazz musician living in Paris. The song later appeared on a 2004 Gotan Project CD, Inspiración Espiración, featuring Chet Baker. In 1971, Ron Grainer used a down-tempo variation by Cootie Williams to accompany a memorable scene from The Omega Man. He had previously recorded the song in the studio two other times, once for Prestige in 1953 and again in 1956 as released on Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants.Ī recording by Jimmy McGriff was used as the 6pm closedown theme in the early days of Radio Caroline in 1964. It became a signature song for Davis his performance of it with Monk at the 1955 Newport Jazz Festival, which was heard by producer George Avakian, was crucial in securing him a recording contract with Columbia Records. The song is sometimes incorrectly called " 'Round About Midnight", as Miles Davis used this as the title of his 1957 Columbia Records album 'Round About Midnight that included a version based on Dizzy Gillespie's arrangement. Gillespie later reused the arrangement for "I Can't Get Started", and recorded it for Birks' Works and Something Old, Something New. The commonly played intro to " 'Round Midnight" was originally composed by Dizzy Gillespie for the end of his arrangement for " I Can't Get Started", but later adopted it to the intro for " 'Round Midnight".
Both Williams and Hanighen received co-credits for their contributions. The lyrics were copyrighted Novemunder the title "Grand Finale". This interlude is not included on any of Monk's recordings and is rarely if ever played.
Williams composed an eight bar interlude, played by the ensemble on his recording. Jazz trumpeters Cootie Williams and Dizzy Gillespie further embellished the song, with songwriter Bernie Hanighen adding his own lyrics. Audio playback is not supported in your browser.
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