Wellington Bonfim - Keyboards - Drum Leo Xavier - Bass Roger Torres - Guitar A Night in Tunisia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigationJump to search This article is about the Dizzy Gillespie song. For other uses, see A Night in Tunisia (disambiguation). "A Night in Tunisia" Instrumental by Dizzy Gillespie & His Sextet Released 1942 Recorded 1942 Genre Jazz, bebop[1] Composer(s) Dizzy GillespieFrank Paparelli (credited) "A Night in Tunisia" is a musical composition written by Dizzy Gillespie around 1941–42, while Gillespie was playing with the Benny Carter band. It has become a jazz standard. It is also known as "Interlude".[2] Gillespie called the tune "Interlude" and said "some genius decided to call it 'Night in Tunisia'". He said the tune was composed at the piano at Kelly's Stables in New York. He gave Frank Paparelli co-writer credit in compensation for some unrelated transcription work, but Paparelli had nothing to do with the song.[3] "A Night in Tunisia" was one of the signature pieces of Gillespie's bebop big band, and he also played it with his small groups. In January 2004, The Recording Academy added the 1946 Victor recording by Gillespie to the Grammy Hall of Fame. On the album A Night at Birdland Vol. 1, Art Blakey introduced his 1954 cover version with this statement: "At this time we'd like to play a tune [that] was written by the famous Dizzy Gillespie. I feel rather close to this tune because I was right there when he composed it in Texas on the bottom of a garbage can." The audience laughs, but Blakey responds, "Seriously." The liner notes say, "The Texas department of sanitation can take a low bow." Analysis Bass vamp underpinning the A sections of "A Night in Tunisia" The complex ostinato bass line in the "A section" is notable for avoiding the standard walking bass pattern of straight quarter notes, and the use of oscillating half-step-up/half-step-down chord changes (using the Sub V, a tritone substitute chord for the dominant chord) gives the song a unique, mysterious feeling. The B section is notable for having an unresolved minor II-V, since the chord progression of the B section is taken from the B section of the standard "Alone Together", causing the V chord to lead back into the Sub V of the A section. Like many of Gillespie's tunes, it features a short written introduction and a brief interlude that occurs between solo sections — in this case, a twelve-bar sequence leading into a four-bar break for the next soloist. Cover versions Count Basie Stefano di Battista Art Blakey with Lee Morgan, A Night in Tunisia (1960)[4] Anthony Braxton Dee Dee Bridgewater Clifford Brown, The Beginning and the End (1955)[4] Ray Brown Rusty Bryant Don Byas June Christy Miles Davis Roland Dyens Bill Evans and Tony Scott Maynard Ferguson Ella Fitzgerald Stan Getz Dexter Gordon with Bud Powell, Our Man in Paris (1963)[4] Gigi Gryce Donald Harrison, Real Life Stories (2001)[4] Lambert, Hendricks & Ross Yusef Lateef Ibrahim Maalouf Hugh Masekela, I Am Not Afraid Bobby McFerrin with The Manhattan Transfer featuring Jon Hendricks The Modern Jazz Quartet Wes Montgomery Fats Navarro (1950)[4] Phineas Newborn Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, Jazz at Massey Hall (1953)[4] Bud Powell (1951)[4] Boyd Raeburn with Dizzy Gillespie, 1945[4] Nelson Rangell Paquito D'Rivera Sonny Rollins, A Night at the Village Vanguard (1957)[4] Arturo Sandoval Jimmy Smith Supersax Cal Tjader Lennie Tristano Turtle Island String Quartet Tuxedo Junction Sarah Vaughan, 1944[4] Frank Vignola Red Garland, Auf Wiedersehen (1975) Mary Lou Williams, Live at the Keystone Korner (1977)[4] Victor Wooten Chaka Khan Big Sugar

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