[This is a Class 1 item] A Night in Tunisia is a musical composition written by Dizzy Gillespie in 1942 while he was playing with the Earl Hines Band. It is also known as Interlude, under which title it was recorded (with lyrics) by Sarah Vaughan. Gillespie himself called the tune Night in Tunisia.
A Night in Tunisia, along with Manteca, was one of the signature pieces of Gillespie’s bebop big band, and he also played it with his small groups. One of its most famous performances is Charlie Parker’s recording for Dial (Dial even released a fragmentary take of it simply titled “The Famous Alto Break”); it also became closely identified with Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, who often gave showstopping performances of it with extra percussion from the entire horn section.
Posted on March 23rd, 2007 by Jeff
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[This is a Class 2 item] While he is sailing, Sinbad comes across a golden tablet dropped by a mysterious flying creature, which he decides to use as an ornament on his necklace. That night, Sinbad has a strange dream, where he sees a man dressed in black, repeatedly yelling Sinbad’s name. Sinbad also sees a mysterious girl with an eye-tattoo on her right palm. The next day, Sinbad’s ship is brought to a coastal town in the country of Marabia by a mysterious force.
Posted on March 23rd, 2007 by Jeff
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[This is a Class 2 item] I and the Village is an early surrealist painting by the Belarussian-born French artist, Marc Chagall. It is currently exhibited at the New York Museum of Modern Art.
Painted on oil in 1911, the artwork features many soft, dreamlike images overlapping each other: in the foreground, what appears to be a cap-wearing green-faced man stares intimately at a goat or a sheep with a smaller goat being milked in its cheek. In the background, there is a glowing tree, a bunch of houses next to an Orthodox church, and a female violinist is dangling upside down in front of a black-clothed man with a scythe. I and the Village seems to examine the relationship between the artist and his place of birth.
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Posted on March 21st, 2007 by testguy6
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[This is a News item] Harry Houdini was born into a Jewish family in Budapest, Hungary. His given name is found spelled differently in different sources and also his birth date is uncertain. However, years after his death a copy of his birth certificate was found and published in The Houdini Birth Research Committee’s Report (1972).
According to that original source, he was born on March 24, 1874 as Erich Weisz. Houdini himself spelled his name Ehrich Weiss, as can be seen from this letter to his mother. As to his birth date, from 1900 onwards Houdini claimed in interviews to have been born in Appleton, Wisconsin on April 6, 1874.
Posted on March 20th, 2007 by testguy6
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