"Round Midnight", what is your favorite version?

This tune has haunted me forever, every week I get a new favorite version; this week it's "Bobby McFerrin".

orpheus1005-17-2010 1:25pm

jburidan Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 803 posts 05-17-2010 at 03:16pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Jean-Baptiste Illinois Jacquet bassoon version.
travis Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 239 posts 05-17-2010 at 06:07pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete First: Richie Beirach on "Continuum" Eastwind label Second: Any version by Miles Third: Herbie Hancock Quartet with Wynton
larryi Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 4,034 posts 05-17-2010 at 08:35pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete If you really like the tune, you must find the Laurindo Almeida/Ray Brown collaboration where the adagio from Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata is combined with Round Midnight. On LP, this is a particularly stunning recording, and quite the challenge to accurately track Ray Brown's bass.
ponnie Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 233 posts 05-17-2010 at 10:41pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete I've never heard a bad version of this standard. Just like Makin Whoopee! Never heard a bad version of this standard either. I have many different versions and everyone sounds very cool!
celtic66 Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 1,668 posts 05-18-2010 at 08:11am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Funny how now one mentions the writer Thelonious Monk. He does several great versions of it. My favorite is Maynard Ferguson MF 3.