Question
This musician’s career was revived after he had Paul Gonsalves play a 27-bar saxophone solo during a performance of his standard “Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue” at the 1956 Newport Jazz Festival. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this jazz pianist whose many collaborations with Billy Strayhorn include a song about “the quickest way to Harlem” titled “Take the ‘A’ Train.”
ANSWER: Duke Ellington [or Edward Kennedy Ellington]
[10m] This is the first word in the title of a jazz standard based on Lorenzo Tio’s song “Dreamy Blues.” Manny Kurtz wrote the lyrics to an Ellington standard titled for a “sentimental” one of these things.
ANSWER: moods [accept “In a Sentimental Mood” or “Mood Indigo”]
[10h] The standard “Midnight Mood” is covered on this other jazz pianist’s 1969 album Alone. This composer of “Waltz for Debby” plays a quartal harmony made of three perfect fourths under a third as the pianist on Miles Davis’ “So What.”
ANSWER: Bill Evans [or William John Evans; reject “Gil Evans”]
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Winter @ Columbia | 11/11/2023 | Y | 9 | 18.89 | 89% | 56% | 44% |
Data
| Yale B | Bard A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Columbia B | NYU B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Penn B | Cornell C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Columbia A | Princeton B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| NYU A | Rowan A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Rutgers A | Columbia C | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Vassar | Rutgers B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Yale A | Haverford | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Penn A | Yale C | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |