‘Round Midnight is everything. There is an acapella Night-Club in Boulder, Colorado, a Birmingham (UK) based @IMDB : It is also a movie by French Bertrand Tavernier : “Real-life jazz legend Dexter Gordon portrays the fictional tenor sax player Dale Turner, a musician slowly losing the battle with alcoholism, estranged from his family, and hanging on by a thread in the 1950’s New York jazz world. Dale gets an offer to play in Paris, where, like many other black American musicians at the time, he enjoys a respect for his humanity that is not based upon the color of his skin”.
AND foremost, it is a Monk’s song

@Jazz Standards : : the composition carries the grand distinction of being the most-recorded jazz standard written by any jazz musician. (Today, we give you 18 versions. When fed up, simply ask for more). According to Thomas Fitterling in Thelonious Monk: His Life and Music, Monk wrote “‘Round Midnight” (then titled “’Round About Midnight”) when he was just 18. Jackie Paris introduced it as a vocal in 1949, after Bernie Hanighen added the lyrics.

@Cafe Jazz : ‘Round Midnight is my personal favorite of Monk’s among his other works,….. I’ve always enjoyed Monk’s way of playing the piano, with his body (and that foot) moving together with his fingers. Really, really mad wicked.

@Amazon : On the “Midnight Blue” 1967 session, Kenny Burrell is joined by regular associates–tenorist Stanley Turrentine, conga drummer Ray Barretto, bassist Major Holley, and drummer Bill English–and together they concentrate on the subtlest and deepest hues of the blues. The title song has a care-free and easy feel.

@IMDB : Big Noise From Winnetka Midnight Swim has been composed for Natalie Wood’s movie “Sex and the Single Girl” (not related to “Sex in the City”): “Wood is the ’single girl,’ a 20 year old doctor who just released a book on sex as a single girl, the catch is… she’s still a virgin. Curtis is a sleazy reporter covering a story on Wood and her book”.

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to be continued… probably