'Round Midnight (song)

"'Round Midnight"
Song by Thelonious Monk
Published1944
GenreBebop
Composer(s)Thelonious Monk

"'Round Midnight" (sometimes titled "'Round About Midnight") is a 1943[1] composition by American jazz pianist Thelonious Monk that quickly became a jazz standard and has been recorded by a wide variety of artists. A version recorded by Monk's quintet was added to the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1993.[2] It is one of the most recorded jazz standards composed by a jazz musician.[3]

  1. ^ Kelley 2009, pp. 87–88.
  2. ^ "GRAMMY Hall Of Fame". grammy.org. 2010-10-19. Retrieved 2016-02-13.
  3. ^ "Jazz Standards Songs and Instrumentals ('Round Midnight)". Jazzstandards.com. 1947-11-21. Retrieved 2016-02-13.

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