Night in Tunisia
1942
Music Dizzy Gillespie
Frank Paparelli
Lyrics Jon Hendricks
Music Dizzy Gillespie
Frank Paparelli
Lyrics Jon Hendricks
A Night in Tunisia
From Wikipedia,
“A Night in Tunisia”
Instrumental by Dizzy Gillespie & His Sextet
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'”
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