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Interesting but not essential.
The live "Round Midnight" from the Newport Jazz Festival features Monk's piano and Miles' trumpet; Miles is working towards the way he would play the tune with his own group, but is not quite there yet.
The rest of the second disk is a short (less than half an hour) set by the Miles quintet from an early (Feb. '55) west coast gig. The music is much more conventional hard bop ("Woodyn' You," "Max Is Making Wax") than what the band would be playing a year later. Coltrane is just starting to sound like himself. There is a nice version of "Walkin'," and Miles has a ballad feature on "It Never Entered My Mind."
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