![]() This is an approach favored by the influential jazz saxophonist, Charlie Parker, whose improvisation of A Night in Tunisia (with its famous “alto break”) was surely the inspiration for the guitar solo version, expertly arranged by Roland Dyens. In between the song melody, I’ve added improvisatory passages that serve to connect harmony structures within the song: examples bars 19-20, bar 24, bar 28, bar 48. Triplets have been used extensively throughout the piece to convey a lazy lilt approach to the rhythm reading, while positioned rests and staccato dots articulate some passages and highlight others that invite a full legato. The song arrangement opens with a 4-bar introduction: try to imagine a brass section in a modern dance band striking chords over a dominant pedal note, followed by a double bass playing a descending chromatic line, closing with an altered dominant chord slide (from the same brass section).
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