A Night in Tunisia

"A Night in Tunisia" is a musical composition written by American trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie in 1942.

[6] "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.

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."

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.