Black, Brown and Beige - 2025 ACF Winter

Question

Ben Webster played a passionate tenor saxophone solo in this work’s second section, which also features a lyric describing the blues as “a cold, grey day.” For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this suite performed at Carnegie Hall in 1943. The line “please look down and see my people through” is repeated at the beginning of this suite’s section “Come Sunday.”

ANSWER: Black, Brown and Beige

[10e] Black, Brown and Beige was a foray into large forms by this jazz musician whose signature tunes included “Take the ‘A’ Train.”

ANSWER: Duke Ellington [or Edward Kennedy Ellington]

[10m] Although Ellington never recorded the full version of Black, Brown and Beige, it was recorded in 2020 by this trumpeter who is the artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center.

ANSWER: Wynton Marsalis [or Wynton Learson Marsalis]

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Summary


California	Main	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
Canada	Main	Y	2	5.00	50%	0%	0%
Florida	Main	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	1	0.00	0%	0%	0%
North	Main	Y	3	23.33	100%	100%	33%
Northeast	Main	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Overflow	Main	Y	2	20.00	100%	50%	50%
Pacific Northwest	Main	Y	5	18.00	100%	80%	0%
South Central	Main	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
UK	Main	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 ACF Nationals	2025-08-09	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	04/19/2025	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Eastern Canada (2)	Main	N	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	N	12	15.83	100%	42%	17%
Midwest	Main	N	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Northeast	Main	N	12	19.17	100%	67%	25%
Pacific	Main	N	9	21.11	89%	78%	44%
Southeast	Main	N	1	30.00	100%	100%	100%
UK (North)	UK	N	1	30.00	100%	100%	100%
UK (South)	UK	N	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Upstate NY	Main	N	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%

Data


Stanford C	Berkeley A	0	10	10	20
UCLA C	UCLA B	0	10	0	10
Berkeley B	Berkeley D	0	10	0	10
Stanford B	Berkeley F	0	10	10	20
UCSD Vices and Virtues	UCSD What Hath God Wrought	0	0	0	0
Toronto A	McGill A	0	10	10	20
Toronto B	Toronto Metropolitan	0	10	10	20
MSU A	OSU A	0	0	0	0
NYU A	Maryland D	0	10	10	20
NYU B	Georgetown B	0	10	10	20
Georgetown A	UMBC A	10	10	10	30
Columbia A	Rutgers B	0	10	10	20
Truman State	Missouri A	0	10	0	10
WashU A	SIUE	10	10	10	30
Indiana A	Chicago B	0	10	0	10
Chicago A	Illinois B	0	10	10	20
Michigan A	Louisville A	0	10	10	20
Purdue A	Michigan D	0	10	10	20
Minnesota A	St. Thomas	0	10	10	20
British Columbia A	British Columbia B	0	10	0	10
Washington A	Washington B	0	10	10	20
Huntsville A	Georgia Tech B	0	10	0	10
Bristol A	Cambridge A	0	10	10	20
RIT B	Binghamton A	0	10	10	20
Illinois A	Notre Dame C	0	10	10	20