Listeners whose experience begins with "Kind of Blue" need to be as open to what preceded as what followed that recording.  "Round Midnight" is the lone Columbia album that captures the sound, cohesion, and special interplay of the Prestige sessions, on which Miles made it clear that 2-beat need not be consigned to dixieland or society dance bands: it can be as cool, hip, and swinging as 4/4 walking bass time. Moreover, the notion that Coltrane didn't yet have his chops together on the Prestige dates is simply misleading: the "presence" of his sound, the energy, the inexhaustible melodic imagination should prove he was near or at the top of his game.  And Red Garland shows why he was and continues to be one of the most influential jazz pianists of all time (I know I've copied him more than any other pianist).