Herbie Hancock - Reharmonization of "Round Midnight"

This reharm is from the soundtrack to the movie "Round Midnight" which starred tenor sax legend Dexter Gordon. Herbie's changes are truly sublime. I heard a story that during the filming of the movie Dexter complanied to Herbie that his chords were too complex and that he couldn't solo on them. Herbie tried several different harmonizations and finally convinced Dexter to improvise on these particular changes. Not being a pianist I did my best to indicate Herbie's exact voicing with the chord symbols I chose. It's very difficult however to express exactly what he's playing with normal chord symbols. I encourage anyone reading through this transcription to make any corrections that they hear and pass them along to me.

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