| Steve Grossman - A Night in Tunisia - Live at Gregory's |
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***Steve Grossman Two Tenors Quintet***
Steve Grossman - Tenor saxophone
Valerio Pontrandolfo - Tenor saxophone
Alain Jean-Marie - Piano
Paolo Benedettini - String basso
Sangoma Everett - Drums
Recorded 10, 11 April, 2008 at Gregory's Jazz
Club - Rome, Italy
http://www.gregorysjazz.com
Due to YouTube's ten minute time limit,
Sangoma Everett's drum solo had to be cut.
The entire version of his solo may be viewed
at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fr1JJcGpBoU
Video editing by
http://www.michaelsupnick.com
"A Night in Tunisia" is a musical composition
written by Dizzy Gillespie in 1942 while he
was playing with the Earl Hines Band. It has
become a Jazz standard. It is also known as
"Interlude", under which title it was
recorded (with lyrics) by Sarah Vaughan.
Gillespie himself called the tune, "Night in
Tunisia".
"A Night in Tunisia", along with "Manteca",
was one of the signature pieces of
Gillespie's bebop big band, and he also
played it with his small groups. One of its
most famous performances is Charlie Parker's
recording for Dial (Dial even released a
fragmentary take of it simply titled "The
Famous Alto Break"); it also became closely
identified with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers,
who often gave showstopping performances of
it with extra percussion from the entire horn
section.
On the album A Night at Birdland Vol. 1,
Blakey introduces the piece with the
(probably apocryphal) story of how he was
present when Dizzy composed it "on the bottom
of a garbage can." The liner notes say, "The
Texas department of sanitation can take a low
bow."
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 six-bar sequence that
dramatically launches the soloist into an
unaccompanied cadenza.
It has been covered in various styles by
various artists, including Bud Powell, Stan
Getz, Maynard Ferguson, Miles Davis, Art
Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Sonny
Rollins, The Modern Jazz Quartet, Anthony
Braxton, Stefano di Battista, Bobby McFerrin,
Victor Wooten, The Turtle Island String
Quartet, The Toasters and Chaka Khan
incorporated the tune on her famous tribute
album Echoes of an Era.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Night_in_Tunis
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| Bill Moyers: On Faith & Reason - David Grossman |
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On Bill Moyers on Faith & Reason, airing
Friday, July 14 at 9 p.m. on PBS (check local
listings), author David Grossman gives
viewers new takes on the Biblical stories of
Noah and Samson that make us question what it
means to claim we are a "chosen people." "As
an Israeli, and as a Jew, I find a lot of
symptoms of our behavior today, as a society,
as a state, coded in the character of the
Biblical Samson," says Grossman.
For more of the interviews, and a chance to
share what *you* find important on matters of
Faith & Reason, visit the program's website
(www.pbs.org/moyers) and watch the broadcasts
on PBS.
Tags : moyers pbs faith reason religion spirituality |
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