This musician formed a group called Dinner Party with Terrace Martin, Robert Glasper, and 9th Wonder in 2020. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this musician who wrote the six-movement suite Harmony of Difference to explore counterpoint. This jazz saxophonist made an album in 2015 called The Epic.
ANSWER: Kamasi Washington
[10e] Acquiring the disc for Kamasi Washington’s EP “The Choice” requires cutting through the packaging on his album titled “Heaven and [this place].” Maurice White co-founded a jazz and funk-inspired band named for “[this place], Wind, and Fire.”
ANSWER: Earth [accept Heaven and Earth; accept Earth, Wind, and Fire]
[10m] Track 6 of Kamasi Washington’s The Epic is “The Rhythm Changes,” whose title indicates its chords come from the 32-bar form of a song by this composer with lyrics by his brother called “I Got Rhythm.”
ANSWER: George Gershwin [or Jacob Gershwine]
<Ganon Evans, Fine Arts - Jazz> ~20597~ <Editor: Young Lee>