Question
The chord–scale system used in this action is based on George Russell’s Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this action indicated by slashes in sheet music. Jazz musicians typically do this action in real time to create original solos on existing songs.
ANSWER: improvisation [or word forms such as improvising; prompt on comping by asking “what action does that support?”]
[10h] Repeated rhythmic patterns from the genre of son montuno are typically the basis for these Cuban jam sessions, which are entirely improvised. Bebo Valdés played at some of these sessions hosted by Panart.
ANSWER: descargas
[10m] A player of this instrument named Cachao helped popularize descargas. This instrument plays a steady stream of quarter notes in straight-ahead jazz and was played by an artist whose albums include Pithecanthropus Erectus.
ANSWER: bass [accept double bass; accept upright bass] (The artist is Charles Mingus.)
<Other Fine Arts>
Summary
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Berkeley | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Cornell | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU | 01/27/2024 | Y | 10 | 16.00 | 90% | 70% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Nebraska | 01/27/2024 | Y | 6 | 11.67 | 67% | 50% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Ohio State | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Rutgers | 01/27/2024 | Y | 5 | 18.00 | 100% | 80% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Imperial | 01/27/2024 | Y | 8 | 11.25 | 75% | 38% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Vanderbilt | 01/27/2024 | Y | 5 | 14.00 | 100% | 40% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ MIT | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
Data
| Michigan C | Kenyon | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Michigan A | Ohio State B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Ohio State A | Michigan B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |