Track listing

1. "A Night in Tunisia
   A Night in Tunisia
   "A Night in Tunisia" is a musical composition written by Dizzy Gillespie in 1942 while he was playing with the Earl Hines Band. It has become a jazz standard....
   
   " (Gillespie
   Dizzy Gillespie
   John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie was an American jazz trumpet player, bandleader, singer, and composer dubbed "the sound of surprise".Together with Charlie Parker, he was a major figure in the development of bebop and modern jazz...
   
   , Paparelli) — 12:55
2. "Off the Wall" (Griffin
   Johnny Griffin
   John Arnold Griffin III was an American bop and hard bop tenor saxophonist.- Early life and career :Griffin studied music at DuSable High School in Chicago under Walter Dyett, starting out on clarinet before moving on to oboe and then alto sax...
   
   ) — 7:16
3. "Theory of Art" (Hardman
   Bill Hardman
   William Franklin Hardman, Jr. was an American jazz trumpeter and flugelhornist who chiefly played hard bop.-Biography:...
   
   ) — 9:46
4. "Couldn't It Be You?" (Blakey
   Art Blakey
   Arthur "Art" Blakey , known later as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina, was an American Grammy Award-winning jazz drummer and bandleader. He was a member of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community....
   
   , McLean
   Jackie McLean
   John Lenwood McLean was an American jazz alto saxophonist, composer, bandleader and educator, born in New York City.-Biography:McLean's father, John Sr., played guitar in Tiny Bradshaw's orchestra...
   
   ) — 8:12
5. "Evans" (Rollins
   Sonny Rollins
   Theodore Walter "Sonny" Rollins is a Grammy-winning American jazz tenor saxophonist. Rollins is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential jazz musicians. A number of his compositions, including "St...
   
   ) 6:30
6. "A Night in Tunisia" (Gillespie, Paparelli) — 12:30*
7. "Off the Wall" (Griffin) — 7:21*
8. "Theory of Art" (Hardman) — 10:14*

• Starred tracks are alternate takes included on the CD re-issue.

Personnel

• Art Blakey
  Art Blakey
  Arthur "Art" Blakey , known later as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina, was an American Grammy Award-winning jazz drummer and bandleader. He was a member of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community....
  
   — drums
• Jackie McLean
  Jackie McLean
  John Lenwood McLean was an American jazz alto saxophonist, composer, bandleader and educator, born in New York City.-Biography:McLean's father, John Sr., played guitar in Tiny Bradshaw's orchestra...
  
   — alto saxophone
• Johnny Griffin
  Johnny Griffin
  John Arnold Griffin III was an American bop and hard bop tenor saxophonist.- Early life and career :Griffin studied music at DuSable High School in Chicago under Walter Dyett, starting out on clarinet before moving on to oboe and then alto sax...
  
   — tenor saxophone
• Bill Hardman
  Bill Hardman
  William Franklin Hardman, Jr. was an American jazz trumpeter and flugelhornist who chiefly played hard bop.-Biography:...
  
   — trumpet
• Sam Dockery
  Sam Dockery
  Sam Dockery was a hard bop pianist and well-respected musician on the Philadelphia jazz scene since the early 1950s. He appears on 11 recordings as the pianist for Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers and composed "Sam's Tune" which appears on their 1957 Blue Note recording, Ritual. In 1963 he was the...
  
   — piano
• Spanky DeBrest
  Spanky DeBrest
  Jimmy "Spanky" DeBrest was an American jazz bassist.DeBrest played with Lee Morgan in his early years in Philadelphia. In 1957 he was a member of Ray Draper's Quintet, Jackie McLean, pianist Mal Waldron, and drummer Ben Dixon.He played with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers until 1958, including...
  
  — bass