Parodies, puns and assorted doodles inspired by favored tunes

Night in Tunisia

1942
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'”

Favorite Recordings

Ella Fitzgerald
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers
Dizzy Gillespie
Arturo Sandoval