Ahmad Jamal - 2026 ACF Regionals

Question

This musician’s trio recorded their signature standard “Poinciana” (“poyn-see-ANN-uh”) on the live album At the Pershing: But Not for Me. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this jazz pianist who claimed to “honor” the space between notes. This longtime friend of Miles Davis changed his name after converting to Islam.

ANSWER: Ahmad Jamal [or Frederick Russell Jones]

[10e] Jamal’s laid-back playing helped develop this subgenre of jazz that was prominent on the West Coast. This subgenre is named for a concept whose “Birth” titles a Miles Davis album.

ANSWER: cool jazz [accept Birth of the Cool]

[10m] Jamal’s 2017 performance of this standard at the Palais des Congrès (“pah-LAY day con-GRAY”) Paris begins with a three-minute-long intro. This standard, which begins Cannonball Adderley’s album Somethin’ Else, is titled for objects that “drift by the window.”

ANSWER: “Autumn Leaves”

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Summary


California (North)	Main Site	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Canada	Main Site	Y	1	0.00	0%	0%	0%
Florida	Main Site	Y	3	3.33	0%	33%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	9	10.00	44%	44%	11%
Midwest	Main Site	Y	9	8.89	56%	11%	22%
Northeast	Main Site	Y	6	13.33	83%	33%	17%
Overflow	Main Site	Y	4	10.00	75%	25%	0%
South Central	Main Site	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Southeast	Main Site	Y	7	10.00	86%	14%	0%
UK	Main Site	Y	6	15.00	67%	67%	17%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	9	16.67	89%	67%	11%
Upstate NY	Main Site	Y	4	10.00	75%	25%	0%

Data


Berkeley A	Berkeley D	0	10	10	20
Stanford B	Berkeley B	0	10	10	20
Central Florida C	Central Florida B	0	0	10	10
Florida B	Florida A	0	0	0	0
Florida C	Central Florida A	0	0	0	0
Stanford A	Berkeley C	0	10	10	20
McGill A	UBC B	0	0	0	0
William and Mary	Duke	0	0	0	0
James Madison A	Liberty C	0	0	10	10
South Carolina A	Liberty A	0	0	0	0
Liberty B	James Madison B	0	0	10	10
Notre Dame A	Chicago B	0	10	0	10
Chicago C	Illinois B	0	0	0	0
Purdue B	Chicago D	0	10	0	10
Chicago E	Notre Dame B	0	0	0	0
North Carolina B	NC State B	0	0	0	0
North Carolina C	NC State A	0	10	10	20
South Carolina B	VCU	0	10	0	10
North Carolina A	Virginia Tech A	0	10	0	10
Virginia	Virginia Tech B	10	10	10	30
Northwestern C	Indiana C	0	0	0	0
Chicago A	Purdue A	10	10	10	30
Indiana A	Illinois A	10	10	0	20
Northwestern B	Illinois C	0	10	0	10
Northwestern D	Indiana B	0	0	0	0
Brandeis B	Bowdoin A	10	10	0	20
Brown	Bowdoin B	0	10	10	20
MIT	Brandeis A	0	10	10	20
Dartmouth A	Harvard A	0	10	0	10
Dartmouth B	Southern Connecticut State	0	0	0	0
Harvard B	Yale	0	10	0	10
Carleton College	Washington B	0	0	0	0
Claremont	Iowa State	0	10	0	10
Minnesota A	Georgia Tech A	0	10	10	20
Washington A	Missouri A	0	10	0	10
Alabama A	Tennessee B	0	10	0	10
Bruin	WashU B	0	10	0	10
Louisville A	Georgia Tech D	0	10	0	10
Kentucky	Louisville B	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech B	Mississipi State	0	10	0	10
Tennessee A	Sewanee	0	10	0	10
Vanderbilt B	WashU A	0	0	0	0
LSE	Bristol	0	0	10	10
Cambridge B	Imperial A	0	10	0	10
Oxford A	Cambridge C	10	10	0	20
Durham	City St. George's	0	10	10	20
Edinburgh B	Imperial C	0	0	10	10
UCL	Oxford B	0	10	10	20
John Jay	Catholic	0	10	10	20
Columbia A	Maryland A	0	10	10	20
Columbia C	Georgetown	0	10	10	20
Maryland B	Vassar	0	10	0	10
NYU A	Columbia B	10	10	10	30
NYU B	Johns Hopkins A	0	10	10	20
NYU C	Johns Hopkins B	0	10	10	20
Rutgers B	Rutgers A	0	0	0	0
Swarthmore	Maryland C	0	10	0	10
Cornell C	Binghamton A	0	0	0	0
Rochester	Binghamton B	0	10	0	10
Penn State	Cornell A	0	10	10	20
Cornell B	RIT	0	10	0	10
Texas A	Murray State A	0	10	0	10
Texas B	Texas A&M A	0	10	10	20