What the Real Book Doesn't Tell You: 'Round Midnight

And then the tag ending!

Suggestion to improve the video: display the transcriptions while the audio sample is being played, instead of only before

This was really interesting, would love to see another video doing a deep dive

I love this man, you know the music
Don't forget Bobby Timmons and Joe Zawinul, even if they might be too "pop" sounding around your type 😎

I always thought Cootie Williams wrote the intro and that is why he gets coauthor credit. That us why I never considered it an essential part of the song.

Yes! Please share more of your knowledge of round midnight!

What a glorious song, so very blue, especially the original WB sheet music, yes please go deeper into the song as soon as you can. It is so sad that it doesn't receive the respect it deserves, nor any airplay. This piece alone makes Monk relatively immortal so long as the blues may be appreciated! MRA

My blue book has the intro. Also Bud Powell plays it in his video. But Monk really plays the he'll out of this tune.

Dizzy said in his autobiography that we was once asked about his contribution to music that he's the most proud of. His answer was: first, the intro he did for Round Midnight, which practically everybody plays since, and second, the intro he wrote for I Can't Get Started.

In the monk version of the intro of dominant chords, how is that a B7b9 chord? Am I reading the transcription wrong or is it B A Eb Bb?

Yes!! Thank you!!! 1Nation4Life <3 (y) !!!

The Real Book does not tell you too many other things about this music. I've always referred to the Real Book as "the biggest misprint in sheet music." The Real Book is the pied piper of modern music.

Barry Harris adds his own intro before that one and it’s killing

Rolland Hannah does a great Round Midnight. I'm pretty sure it uses Dizzy's into. Check it out, it's great!

To me intros are very important and over-looked by so many players...even good players. The idea of setting up a tune with a 4 or 8 bar intro vamp is really sad. The outro thing is also important. Man listening to Keith Jarrett taught me this!! If you take the intros and ride-outs seriously, they will be just as important as the tune itself.

Haha I thought there will be also words about the great bossa-nova
OUTRO)))

Stop bullshitting. There are tons of songs taken from hundreds of musicals that do not have the start of the song in the books because they are not the focus of the tune and waste time and paper. The most famous version has an intro. But it's not what's documented for sale as sheet music. So it's no more at fault than hundreds of thousandds of pubhlished works.

The Real Book also leaves out verses.

Screw the intro. Riyoko Takagi doesn't play it.

Thanks for an interesting video. Really like these 'what the real book doesn't tell you' videos.

Muito bom. Obrigado.

Another thing is in bar 4 of the tune the way that monk played it was F7 Bb7sus Bb-7 A7 instead of what the real book writes