The lengthy title track on this CD easily overshadows the rest of the program for it is one of the most exciting versions ever recorded of
Dizzy Gillespie's "A Night in Tunisia." Trumpeter
Lee Morgan (then only in his early 20s), tenor saxophonist
Wayne Shorter, pianist
Bobby Timmons and bassist Jymie Merritt formed one of the strongest of the many versions of
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers and are actually in fine form during the remainder of the satisfying (if anticlimactic) set. [Originally released in 1960,
A Night in Tunisia was reissued on a Japanese CD in 2004.] ~ Scott Yanow