Hiromi Uehara - 2024 PLAYTIME

Question

After working as a jingle writer in Japan, this artist studied under Ahmad Jamal at the Berklee College of Music. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this jazz pianist known for making extremely expressive faces while playing. This pianist’s trio was expanded into a quartet to form her namesake Sonicbloom.

ANSWER: Hiromi Uehara [or Uehara Hiromi; accept Hiromi’s Sonicbloom]

[10m] At age 17, Hiromi played with jazz fusion pianist Chick Corea, who used a melody from this piece as the basis for his standard “Spain.” Another musician’s album Sketches of Spain opens with an extended version of this piece’s Adagio second movement.

ANSWER: Concierto de Aranjuez [accept Aranjuez Concerto] (It’s a guitar concerto by Joaquín Rodrigo.)

[10e] The fusion albums In a Silent Way and Bitches Brew are by this bandleader and trumpeter, who recorded Sketches of Spain shortly after his seminal album Kind of Blue.

ANSWER: Miles Davis [or Miles Dewey Davis III]

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2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU	12/10/2024	Y	5	12.00	100%	20%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont	12/10/2024	Y	5	12.00	100%	20%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	3	10.00	67%	33%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard	04/26/2025	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU	10/26/2024	Y	8	12.50	88%	38%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest	12/10/2024	Y	4	7.50	75%	0%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME Online	04/26/2025	Y	9	15.56	100%	44%	11%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield	12/10/2024	Y	6	11.67	83%	33%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ UBC	10/05/2024	Y	8	16.25	100%	63%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech	07/11/2025	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU	10/12/2024	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%

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Michigan A	Michigan D	0	0	10	10
Michigan B	Pittsburgh	0	10	10	20
Ohio State A	Oberlin	0	0	10	10
Ohio State B	Ohio State D	0	0	10	10
Michigan C	Ohio State C	0	0	10	10
UCSD	Caltech	0	0	10	10
Claremont A	UCLA B	0	0	10	10
Keeping Up With the Cardassians	Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses	0	0	0	0
Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again	Billy's Bastion	0	0	10	10
Too much from you lately	Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison	0	10	10	20
RIT	Belmont	0	0	10	10
Brown	Brandeis	0	0	10	10
Harvard	Lexington	0	10	10	20
MIT	BU	0	10	10	20
Art of Premature Signaling	Claremont B	0	10	10	20
George Mason B	George Washington	0	0	10	10
Haverford A	George Mason C	0	0	10	10
Catholic University of America	Haverford B	0	0	0	0
Johns Hopkins A	NYU A	0	10	10	20
NYU B	Johns Hopkins B	0	0	10	10
Georgetown	Maryland A	0	10	10	20
George Mason A	NYU C	0	10	10	20
Maryland B	Rutgers	0	0	10	10
girl 15 whale i mean they	UCLA A	0	0	10	10
Alberta	Washington Connections	0	0	10	10
UW A	Arizona State University A	0	0	10	10
Carleton	SD Mines	0	0	0	0
UW B	Arizona State University B	0	0	10	10
Egypt Airlines Haters	we need new names	0	0	10	10
Four Generalists in Search of a Power	2 Italians, 2 Poles, All Noles	0	10	10	20
Gruh	MSJ	0	10	10	20
Free Agents 1	Illinois Orange	10	10	10	30
Mahjonng Masters	Auburn 2026	0	0	10	10
Mike Dukakis Tank Battalion	mongeese	0	0	10	10
Notre Dame + Epic Games	Monsieur Hulot's Academic Team	0	0	10	10
Trip-Hop Quizzer Tricky	Quatumvirate	0	10	10	20
evil women enjoyers	Goober Gang	0	0	10	10
P.C.‚ Daniel‚ Michel‚ and Jason B	UCSB	0	0	10	10
Warwick C	Sheffield A	0	0	0	0
Cambridge	Warwick A	0	10	10	20
Manchester	Edinburgh	0	10	10	20
Imperial A	Lancaster	0	0	10	10
Sheffield C	Imperial B	0	0	10	10
Sheffield B	Warwick B	0	0	10	10
Toronto C	Ottawa A	0	10	10	20
Waterloo A	UBC	0	10	10	20
Waterloo B	Toronto E	0	10	10	20
Waterloo C	Toronto Metropolitan	0	0	10	10
Simon Fraser	Mac A	0	0	10	10
McGill A	McGill B	0	10	10	20
Toronto A	Guelph	0	0	10	10
Toronto B	Toronto D	0	10	10	20
4 quizbowl pros go Virginia on North Carolina	Even in Blacksburg There I Am	0	10	10	20
Ashurbanipal’s Drag Race	Somehow Paula Deen Returned	0	0	10	10
Iowa State	Chicago B	0	10	10	20
WashU Bulbasaur	Missouri	0	0	10	10
Chicago A	WashU Charmander	0	0	10	10
Adrianne Lenker 4 Nobel Lit Prize 2K65	Master and Margaritaville	0	10	10	20