This post is about the song "Caravan" by Juan Tizol and Duke Ellington (jazz's greatest composer). I've always dug this tune. It has that mystical middle eastern vibe thing happening. Even my own mother, who drove a Caravan, can identify this as being jazz. It's exotic. It's spicy. It makes you want to sit cross legged on the floor of your tent and dip bread into some hummus or roast a lamb or something. Check it out HERE.
Someone pointed out one time that Duke wrote for the musicians in the band, rather than just writing for some fictional band. In other words, he played to the strengths of the people he was working with. Look at this score HERE, he even has nicknames penciled in there - Tricky, Cooty...what's yours?
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Keep it clean, Buster Brown!