Back in the early 90s when I was a twentysomething year old, trying to learn about Jazz guitar (I was tired and stuck playing Thrash Metal by then) I found a mix song CD in the bargain bin at a record store in Downtown L.A. with some random track names I recognized -- so I brought it home. This mix CD had some really great tracks on it -- songs that I couldn't find for _years_ afterwards. _A Night in Tunisia_ was on that CD -- however, the only info of this track that was printed on the jacket was *A Night in Tunisia by Dizzy Gillespie* Fast forward a few years, my CD booklets were stolen out of my car (along with my stereo) and this CD was gone forever. Then around 2010 when the Tunisia bass line popped in my head, (which I wanted to learn on bass) I scoured the internet looking for this version, and because I didn't know key words like Charlie Parker, or Bird, or even Carnegie Hall, it took me too damn long to find this version --- and I'm *SO* glad I found it! Thanks for the upload!
The greatest 4 bars of music every recorded by a musician--the break before the first solo by Bird. What he does in those naked seconds defies analysis. He's not playing scales, chord changes, and swinging, reaching ahead on the time, then behind. (it's almost as if time is suspended), then that almost imperceptible delay, and he enters spot-on for the first measure. It's Bird's best recording of the tune. Put this alongside Blakey's "Night at Birdland" (Lou). Anyone w ears will "see" genius
Lovely stuff, departing from mainstream Jazz, while carrying Jazz's harmonic bones on its back. Imagine being able to think like that, while performing. Charley plays so many puns, so many off track feints, that Dizzy is lofted to his highest level in reply. Brilliant. Realize that, like many standards, the main vamp is extra simple, chording wise. So is the bridge. But the falling arpeggio part is one long, lovely, rehamronization, out of my reach at present. And the syncopation of Dizzy's intro is breathtaking. I make fun of horn players only being responsible for one note at a time, but these horn players are way over my head.
The point is that Donaldson simply repeats a simple riff--artificial excitement. Or Golson (great composer)--all "busy-ness" alongside any Mobley melodic masterpiece. The most overlooked and certainly most dazzling, pyrotechnical solo before Coltrane is an ignored youtube video: Stan Getz' on "Shine" from the album "West Coast Jazz." The tenor saxophone has never been played better (Coltrane was "different," not better. His best: the Birdland "I Want to Talk About You" and "Giant Steps.")
The drugs and alcohol made him "nuts" so that's beyond stupid. Do you know what that stuff does to you psychologically? Get an education. Learn about addiction.
The drugs and alcohol made him "nuts" so that's beyond stupid. Do you know what that stuff does to you psychologically? Get an education. Learn about addiction.
+doccw75 So, Billie Holiday, Miles Davis and Chet Baker were all insane. It is you who must learn about addiction. It is the illegality of substances, used for centuries, that is madness.
Back in the early 90s when I was a twentysomething year old, trying to learn about Jazz guitar (I was tired and stuck playing Thrash Metal by then) I found a mix song CD in the bargain bin at a record store in Downtown L.A. with some random track names I recognized -- so I brought it home.
This mix CD had some really great tracks on it -- songs that I couldn't find for _years_ afterwards. _A Night in Tunisia_ was on that CD -- however, the only info of this track that was printed on the jacket was *A Night in Tunisia by Dizzy Gillespie*
Fast forward a few years, my CD booklets were stolen out of my car (along with my stereo) and this CD was gone forever.
Then around 2010 when the Tunisia bass line popped in my head, (which I wanted to learn on bass) I scoured the internet looking for this version, and because I didn't know key words like Charlie Parker, or Bird, or even Carnegie Hall, it took me too damn long to find this version --- and I'm *SO* glad I found it!
Thanks for the upload!
That´s THE solo break!!!
Almost THE break but not the one. Chaka Khan used THE break in her version. ruclips.net/video/lxH83kmjpyw/видео.html
Charlie Parker scratches my itch in jazz
The greatest 4 bars of music every recorded by a musician--the break before the first solo by Bird. What he does in those naked seconds defies analysis. He's not playing scales, chord changes, and swinging, reaching ahead on the time, then behind. (it's almost as if time is suspended), then that almost imperceptible delay, and he enters spot-on for the first measure. It's Bird's best recording of the tune. Put this alongside Blakey's "Night at Birdland" (Lou). Anyone w ears will "see" genius
at 1:19
And the one he made in the recording study but the take was finally discarded:
ruclips.net/video/x_TcSO0pNtw/видео.html
that break, is a gift from the heavens
supernatural
That famous "Break" stops Time!!!
MAN THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR!!!!! CHARLIE KILLED THIS ONE MAN!!!!
genial, mi cancion favorita me encanta sencillamente, . thanks bird and dizzy. 🙂😀
fantastic horns, thanks so much...
Pure sonic joy!!
CLASSIC & STRAIGHT AHEAD!!
1:16 THE FAMOUS SOLO BREAK 😮😮😮🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🧨🧨🧨🧨🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾
00:37 move Diz, I'm playin' the melody :D
he'd recorded with bird at a 1945 studio session but this extended rendition has five full minutes of mature bop genius.
Lovely stuff, departing from mainstream Jazz, while carrying Jazz's harmonic bones on its back.
Imagine being able to think like that, while performing. Charley plays so many puns, so many off track feints, that Dizzy is lofted to his highest level in reply.
Brilliant. Realize that, like many standards, the main vamp is extra simple, chording wise. So is the bridge. But the falling arpeggio part is one long, lovely, rehamronization, out of my reach at present. And the syncopation of Dizzy's intro is breathtaking.
I make fun of horn players only being responsible for one note at a time, but these horn players are way over my head.
Bird's solo on this is just insanity
Thus his student JOHN COLTRANE
Uuuuf. 1:18.
YEAR and PERSONNEL please?
Thank god we have Africans in our world. They know things we whites forgot centuries ago.
Ce 29 septembre 1947 au soir, les oreilles des Tunisiens se sont mises à siffler.
Man, Diz is soo good, but his face is so funny! 3:28
Parker s'envole au paradis à 1:18
lol wut?
That's a very silly comment.
-An African
The point is that Donaldson simply repeats a simple riff--artificial excitement. Or Golson (great composer)--all "busy-ness" alongside any Mobley melodic masterpiece. The most overlooked and certainly most dazzling, pyrotechnical solo before Coltrane is an ignored youtube video: Stan Getz' on "Shine" from the album "West Coast Jazz." The tenor saxophone has never been played better (Coltrane was "different," not better. His best: the Birdland "I Want to Talk About You" and "Giant Steps.")
I liked the dexter Gordon one better
The drugs and alcohol made him "nuts" so that's beyond stupid. Do you know what that stuff does to you psychologically? Get an education. Learn about addiction.
Addiction can make you "nuts"
The drugs and alcohol made him "nuts" so that's beyond stupid. Do you know what that stuff does to you psychologically? Get an education. Learn about addiction.
+doccw75 So, Billie Holiday, Miles Davis and Chet Baker were all insane. It is you who must learn about addiction. It is the illegality of substances, used for centuries, that is madness.