A Night In Tunisia

I went to a free concert at the Berklee College of Music (Recital Hall 1W) today. Walid Zairi (a Tunisian-born bassist) played five standards ("Whisper Not" by Benny Golson, "No Greater Love" by Isham Jones, "One by One" by Wayne Shorter, "Calypso Minor" by Abdullah Ibrahim and "Senior Blues" by Horace Silver) with a jazz quintet (sax, trombone, piano, bass and drums). It was a fun and interactive experience: musicians encouraged audience participation and half-jokingly asked if there was a singer in the audience for a blues song they played as an encore.