A Night In Tunisia
by Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers

A Night In Tunisia by Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
Year: 1961
Release date: 1961-04-02
Overall rank: 5,404th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 64 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top 20 albums of 1961 (19th)
Award Top albums of of the 1960s (418th)
Award Best albums of all time (5,404th)

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Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers bestography

A Night In Tunisia is ranked 4th best out of 66 albums by Art Blakey on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Art Blakey is Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers which is ranked number 479 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 3,538.

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers album bestography « Higher ranked (5,204th)
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A Night In Tunisia
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  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 80 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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A Night In Tunisia rankings summary
Overall rank: 5,404th | 1960s rank: 418th | 1961 rank: 19th  Overall chart history
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Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 64 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.4/100, a mean average of 77.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.1.


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From kokkinos 06/17/2021 20:02 in I'm going back to the start
As I have already said – you can check page 4, post # 37 of the diary for the first chapter of my adventure with this band- you could quite convincingly argue that Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers keep making variations of the same album. Now, you may ask, is that a bad thing? Depending on what…
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