3 Nights in Tunisia - Dizzy Gillespie, Jimmy Smith, Barbara Dennerlein

Three masters, Dizzy Gillespie, Jimmy Smith, and Barbara Dennerlein performing a bebop masterpiece. (This is an improved and enhanced version of the original clip I uploaded in 2008. The quality, both audio and video, was quite low, yet it was still popular with nearly 94,000 views. That version is now unlisted, so if you’ve embedded it on a website it will be available, but should no longer appear in the YouTube search results.) Dizzy wrote this piece in 1942 and back in the day at the apex of his career musicians like Miles Davis sat wide eyed and slack jawed in the front row as Dizzy unleashed powerful solos. With age he continued to play Night in Tunisia, but used rhythm and arrangements to compensate for the gradual loss of power, an absolute giant in the pantheon of jazz, and an extraordinary human being. The clip of Jimmy Smith is from 1986, thanks to YouTuber Imesan from Japan for uploading it. Nearly everyone knows and loves Jimmy Smith, the person who introduced the world t