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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 Great Quintet. A track by this musician begins with percussionist Bill Summers imitating (10[2])hindewhu music (10[1])by blowing into beer bottles. (-5[1])That song is the opening track (-5[1])of this musician’s debut album Takin’ Off, and was recorded in a funk style on his album Head Hunters. For 10 points, name this jazz pianist who recorded the tracks “Watermelon Man” (-5[1])and “Chameleon.” ■END■ (10[1]0[2])

ANSWER: Herbie Hancock [or Herbert Hancock] (The song in the first line is “Cantaloupe Island.”)
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Gerrit Severeid (UG)McGill EArkansas8610
Sam Macchi (D2)Vassar AOregon State8610
Collin Leck (D2)Central OklahomaNYU A8810
Towery McNeil (D2)Mississippi StateVassar B93-5
Owen Gilroy (D2)Texas BMissouri99-5
HrishitNYU BTexas A131-5
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Wyatt Curry (D2)MissouriTexas B13410
Nico Lotto (D2)Vassar BMississippi State1340