improvisation - 2024 ACF Regionals

Question

The chord–scale system used in this action is based on George Russell’s Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this action indicated by slashes in sheet music. Jazz musicians typically do this action in real time to create original solos on existing songs.

ANSWER: improvisation [or word forms such as improvising; prompt on comping by asking “what action does that support?”]

[10h] Repeated rhythmic patterns from the genre of son montuno are typically the basis for these Cuban jam sessions, which are entirely improvised. Bebo Valdés played at some of these sessions hosted by Panart.

ANSWER: descargas

[10m] A player of this instrument named Cachao helped popularize descargas. This instrument plays a steady stream of quarter notes in straight-ahead jazz and was played by an artist whose albums include Pithecanthropus Erectus.

ANSWER: bass [accept double bass; accept upright bass] (The artist is Charles Mingus.)

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Summary


2024 ACF Regionals @ Berkeley	01/27/2024	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Cornell	01/27/2024	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU	01/27/2024	Y	10	16.00	90%	70%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Nebraska	01/27/2024	Y	6	11.67	67%	50%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Ohio State	01/27/2024	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Rutgers	01/27/2024	Y	5	18.00	100%	80%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Imperial	01/27/2024	Y	8	11.25	75%	38%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Vanderbilt	01/27/2024	Y	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ MIT	01/27/2024	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%

Data


Virginia B (UG)	GWU A (UG)	10	10	20
Liberty B (DII)	GWU B (Grad)	10	10	20
William & Mary A (UG)	JMU A (UG)	10	10	20
Duke A (UG)	JMU B (UG)	10	0	10
UNC B (UG)	Liberty C (DII)	10	0	10
Maryland A (Grad)	Maryland C (DII)	0	10	10
Bristol	Oxford C	10	0	10
Oxford B	Cambridge B	10	0	10
Warwick	Durham A	10	0	10
Edinburgh	Imperial B	0	10	10
Imperial A	Durham B	10	10	20
KCL	Cambridge C	0	0	0
Maryland B (UG)	Virginia C (UG)	10	10	20
UNC C (UG)	Roanoke College A (DII)	10	10	20
Liberty A (Grad)	UNC D (DII)	10	0	10
Virginia A (UG)	UNC A (Grad)	10	10	20
Iowa B	Claremont A	10	0	10
Iowa A	Appalachian State	10	10	20
UBC A	Rice A	0	0	0
Sorbonne	Michigan State A	0	10	10
Texas A&M A	Texas A&M B	10	0	10
UW A	Texas A	10	10	20
Kiel	Oxford A	10	0	10
Cambridge A	Sheffield	10	10	20
Georgia Tech B	Alabama	10	10	20
Geodesic	Tennessee	10	0	10
Kentucky	Harding	10	10	20
Vanderbilt A	MTSU	10	0	10
Georgia Tech A	South Carolina	10	0	10
Stanford A	Berkeley A	10	10	20
Berkeley C	Berkeley B	10	10	20
Stanford B	Stanford C	10	10	20
Cornell C	Cornell A	10	10	20
Binghamton	RIT A	10	0	10
Cornell B	RIT B	10	10	20
Michigan C	Kenyon	10	10	20
Michigan A	Ohio State B	10	10	20
Ohio State A	Michigan B	10	0	10
John Jay	Penn	10	0	10
Johns Hopkins	Columbia B	10	10	20
Haverford	NYU B	10	10	20
NYU A	Rowan	10	10	20
Columbia C	Vassar	10	10	20
Dartmouth A	Dartmouth B	10	10	20
Harvard B	Harvard A	10	0	10
Tufts A	Tufts B	10	0	10