Tin Tin Deo – Tommy Flanagan Trio

Tin Tin Deo was written by Gil Fuller and Chano Pozo … first recorded by James Moody and His Bop Men.  The song has become a jazz standard but I’ve often wondered, “What does it mean?”  It could be an eggcorn of “te entiendo” which is Spanish for “I understand you.”  Granted, that may be a bit of a stretch but lots of old jazz men named their songs based on what they heard rather than what may have been grammatically correct. It’s no farther out than Charles Mingus’ “Ecclusiastics” or Miles Davis’ “Solar” which many people pronounce so-LAR instead of soler.  This recording features Tommy Flanagan on piano, George Mraz on bass and Lewis Nash drums.