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jazz tunes (or standards) with Middle Eastern or Asian place-names...


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Almost forgot - Little Egypt - the Leiber-Stoller tune done by The Coasters.

Road to Morocco is just about OK since Bing was slightly a bit jazzy - but we ARE looking for tunes at least done by jazz bands :D (What about "Ahab the Arab"?)

Little Niles - Randy Weston

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Little Niles was Randy Weston's son. It's nothing to do with the river!

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Almost forgot - Little Egypt - the Leiber-Stoller tune done by The Coasters.

Road to Morocco is just about OK since Bing was slightly a bit jazzy - but we ARE looking for tunes at least done by jazz bands :D (What about "Ahab the Arab"?)

Little Niles - Randy Weston

MG

Little Niles was Randy Weston's son. It's nothing to do with the river!

Yes.

http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...st&p=733004

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And where, precisely, is "The land of Oo-blah-dee"? Certainly not in the Americas or Europe. :D

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Have you ever heard the lyrics? IIRC, it's a "Through the Looking Glass" - or maybe more of a sci-fi- kind of place...

Also, I think - would have to check to be sure - that Randy Weston's "Little Niles" is about his son, not the river.

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And where, precisely, is "The land of Oo-blah-dee"? Certainly not in the Americas or Europe. :D

MG

Have you ever heard the lyrics? IIRC, it's a "Through the Looking Glass" - or maybe more of a sci-fi- kind of place...

I have indeed - Joe Carroll's version with Grant Green and Conrad Lester on Charlie Parker records. I think it may be how you hear it. I can see what you mean, but I've always thought of the song in terms of 1001 Arabian Nights.

And welcome Seeline!

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