Question

One of this musician’s solos quotes “Someone left the cake out in the rain,” playing it an octave higher before climbing up to a double high concert G. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this Canadian trumpeter known for his high register. This musician lip-slurs between high D-flats and E-flats in the intro to a cover of Herbie Hancock’s “Chameleon.”
ANSWER: Maynard Ferguson [or Walter Maynard Ferguson]
[10m] Description acceptable. Ferguson’s big band recorded a popular cover of this Bill Conti song on the 1977 album Conquistador. The main theme of this song opens with the brasses playing, “E-G, A, [pause], A-B, E,” and plays as one character climbs the steps of the Philadelphia Art Museum.
ANSWER: “Gonna Fly Now” [accept answers describing the Rocky theme song]
[10e] Ferguson was the bandleader for this location’s “Dream Band.” Ferguson later covered a Weather Report song about this New York City jazz club, which took its name from Charlie Parker’s nickname.
ANSWER: Birdland Jazz Club
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McMaster ApocolocyntosisBidiiCarleton A0101020
Toronto AWaterloo Aspidistra10101030
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Toronto Chestnut Rice and KamehamehaToronto Metropolitan A10101030
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Purdue BSIUE010010
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SGV VenturesAnderson et al.001010
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