SATURDAY EVENING JAZZ: A Night in Tunisia by Dexter Gordon - Paris and jazz just seem to go together so well. Maybe that was the draw for so many jazz greats to make Paris home for a time. That was the case for tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon, who lived in Europe for fifteen years hopping between Copenhagen and Paris recording some of his greatest works with other fellow expats and natives.
One of his best albums during his extended stay was Our Man in Paris with Bud Powell, Kenny Clarke, and Pierre Michelot. It is a monster of an album, highlighted by his rendition of the Dizzy Gillespie’s A Night in Tunisia. Being a jazz standard, it has been performed and recorded by pretty much everyone, one of the more famous being the version by Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers. My favorite version though is this one and it might possibly be one of his best performances ever.
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