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'Round Midnight
by Thelonious Monk
Transcribed by David T. Ratcliffe
DavesPianoLessons.com
from the recording: Thelonious Monk, piano.
Hollywood, California, November 19, 1968.
LP: Greatest Hits, Columbia CS 9775;
CD: Thelonious Monk - The Composer,
Columbia CK44292.
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