A Night in Tunisia | B♭ Sheet Music
Jazz Lead Sheet Transposed for B♭ — trumpet, tenor sax, clarinet
Lyrics
1942 - Dizzy Gillespie The moon is the same moon above you Aglow with its cool evening light But shining at night, in Tunisia Never does it shine so bright The stars are aglow in the heavens But only the wise understand That shining at night in Tunisia They guide you through the desert sand Words fail, to tell a tale Too exotic to be told Each night's a deeper night In a world, ages old The cares of the day seem to vanish The ending of day brings release Each wonderful night in Tunisia Where the nights are filled with peace
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Read it in your key: Concert (C) (piano, guitar, voice) B♭ (trumpet, tenor sax, clarinet) E♭ (alto sax, baritone sax) Bass clef (trombone, bass, cello)
About this A Night in Tunisia lead sheet
This is the jazz lead sheet for A Night in Tunisia, written by Dizzy Gillespie in 1942, transposed for B♭ instruments — trumpet, tenor sax, clarinet. The melody and the chord symbols are written a major second above concert pitch, so what you read matches what the rhythm section plays. The chart is written in E minor (concert D minor), in 4/4 time. Read it here for free and play it back — the band keeps sounding in concert pitch while you read your part. Need another key? Switch the Transpose preset above.
- Composer
- Dizzy Gillespie
- Year
- 1942
- Key
- E minor (written) · D minor (concert)
- Edition
- B♭ transposed — trumpet, tenor sax, clarinet
- Time signature
- 4/4
- Style
- Afro-Cuban
- Tempo
- 200 BPM
- Genre
- Jazz, Bebop
- Format
- Lead sheet — melody and chord symbols
A Night in Tunisia chord changes
The chord progression of A Night in Tunisia transposed for B♭ instruments (trumpet, tenor sax, clarinet), written in E minor — concert D minor — 45 bars, four to a line. These are the changes as a trumpet player reads them; the rhythm section sees the concert chart.
| F7 | Em | F7 | Em | | F7 | Em6add9 | F7 | Em6add9 | | F7 | Em6add9 | F♯m7♭5 B7 | Em | | Em | Bm7♭5 | E7♯9 | Am | | Am | Am7♭5 | D7♯9 | G6 | | F♯m7♭5 B7♯9 | F7 | Em6add9 | F7 | | Em6add9 | F7 | Em6add9 | F♯m7♭5 B7♯9 | | Em | F♯m | % | F7♯11 | | % | Em | % | A7 | | % | D7 | Am/D | G♯7 | | G | % | % | % | | % |
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Dizzy Gillespie Sextet - A Night In Tunisia - 10/07/1981 u2022 World of Jazz — World of Jazz
