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Sarah Vaughan & Her All-Stars

Interlude

Night In Tunisia

Continental Label Records 1944

Night in Tunisia is a musical composition written by Dizzy Gillespie in 1942 while he was playing with the Earl Hines Band

Night in Tunisia is a Jazz standard

It is also known as "Interlude", under which title it was recorded (with lyrics) by Sarah Vaughan and Anita O'Day.
Gillespie himself called the tune Night in Tunisia

Although the song is sometimes titled "A Night in Tunisia", the proper title is Night in Tunisia

The complex 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 gives the song a unique, mysterious feeling
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.
Sarah Vaughan and Her All-Stars
Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet)
Aaron Sachs (clarinet)
Georgie Auld (tenor Sax)
Jack Lesberg (Double Bass)
Chuck Wayne (guitar)
Piano/Producer: Leonard Feather (piano)
Morey Feld (drums)
Recorded in New York City December 31 1944 (Continental Label Records)

Interlude

Lyrics

I lived in a dream for a moment
We'd loved in a midnight solitude
But I never knew at the moment
Love was just an interlude

I thrill as your arms would enfold me
A kiss of surrender says the mood
Then heaven fell down when you told me
Love's a passing interlude

The magic was unsurpassed
Too good to last
The magic my heart once knew
Is dressed in blue

The shadow of night all around me
I walk in a moonlight solitude
When I thought romance really found me
Love was just an interlude

Sources

My LP

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Vaughan?wprov=sfla1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Night_in_Tunisia?wprov=sfla1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxAvj2cidBs

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You can clearly see, based on the size of the previous toot, that I love this song.

For the first time I heard it on the radio the AM radio
For the second version, which is the first computer rendering, I heard it on my Amiga computer! As a module
When I heard it again after many decades, I didn't recognize Night in Tunisia at first, because I remembered a super fast live version that Dizzy Gillespie played.
It was when I heard the second part, a few beats in, that I recognized the brilliance of the band and the composer

What a powerful song both fast and slow versions
You should also listen to the Art Blakey version

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