A Night in Tunisia Backing Track Jazz – Here, the instrumentalist can improvise over one of the most famous jazz standards in history.

“A Night in Tunisia” is a jazz composition from the early 1940s by the legendary trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie. Originally, this piece was called “Interlude”, but years later, a version by Charlie Parker and Miles Davis made the piece famous under its definitive title: “A Night in Tunisia”.

The mysterious sound and brilliance in its composition were factors that contributed to making this one of the most influential pieces in the history of jazz. Quickly, “A Night in Tunisia” became a jazz standard, interpreted by many renowned musicians such as Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Count Basie, Art Blakey, Lee Morgan, Ben Webster, Clifford Brown, Ray Brown, Don Byas, Roland Dyens, Bill Evans, Stan Getz, Dexter Gordon, Yusef Lateef, Wes Montgomery, Art Pepper, Bud Powell, Paquito D’Rivera, Sonny Rollins, Arturo Sandoval, Jimmy Smith, Frank Vignola, Red Garland, Victor Wooten, Maynard Ferguson, Benny Golson, Joshua Redman, Herbie Hancock, and many others.

This piece can be found in the “Real Book vol.1” on page 7.

This backing track consists of drums, bass, and piano. The tempo is 182bpm.

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