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A track by this musician was re-recorded with a choir for his mentor’s album Up with Donald Byrd. A syncopated bass ostinato built on a B-flat minor 7 to E-flat 7 progression opens a track by this musician before saxes and trumpet enter with three sets of two quick sixteenth notes on the notes B-flat, A-flat, B-flat. This musician began using electric instruments like the Fender Rhodes while a member of Miles Davis’s Second (10[1])Great Quintet. (10[1])A track by this musician begins with percussionist Bill Summers imitating hindewhu music by blowing into beer bottles. (10[1])That song is the opening track of this musician’s (10[1])debut album Takin’ Off, (10[1])and was recorded in a funk style on his album Head Hunters. For 10 points, name this jazz (10[1])pianist (10[1])who recorded the tracks “Watermelon Man” and “Chameleon.” ■END■

ANSWER: Herbie Hancock [or Herbert Hancock] (The song in the first line is “Cantaloupe Island.”)
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
NathanMichigan DPitt A7310
Mitchell IndekMichigan BOhio State C (DII)7510
Rohan Navaneetha Raj (DII)Ohio State B (DII)Pitt B (UG)9310
Enina Edosomwan (DII)CWRU A (UG)Michigan State C (UG)10210
Elias Kradel (DII)Kenyon B (DII)Michigan C (UG)10610
WIll Romanyk (UG)Michigan State B (UG)Kenyon A (UG)12410
Ethan Shu (DII)CWRU D (DII)CWRU B (UG)12510