The Dexter Gordon album “Our Man in Paris” was recorded on May 23, 1963 at CBS Studios Paris. The original plan was to present new compositions on the record, but when pianist Kenny Drew was replaced with Bud Powell, who refused to play new music, the song list was changed to feature standards. The lineup that walked into the studio that day in May 63 years ago were Dexter Gordon, tenor saxophone, Bud Powell, piano, bassist Pierre Michelot and drummer Kenny Clarke. Michelot was a native Parisian and the other three musicians were American expatriates.

The album, which has received a maximum four-star rating in the “Penguin Guide to Jazz,” includes five songs by the quartet. Charlie Parker’s Scrapple From the Apple, Willow Weep For Me, Broadway, Stairway to the Stars and Dizzy Gillespie’s A Night in Tunisia. A 2003 remaster by Rudy Van Gelder had two bonus tracks. The album was released in December 1963 on the Blue Note label.

Here is a link to the Gillespie tune on the record:

"A NIGHT IN TUNISIA"