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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 (-5[1])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 hindewhu music by blowing into beer bottles. (10[1])That song is the opening (10[1])track (10[1])of this musician’s debut album Takin’ Off, and was recorded in a funk style on his album Head Hunters. (10[3])For (10[1])10 points, (-5[1])name this jazz pianist who recorded the tracks “Watermelon Man” and “Chameleon.” (10[2])■END■ (0[1])

ANSWER: Herbie Hancock [or Herbert Hancock] (The song in the first line is “Cantaloupe Island.”)
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Zosia MikolajczukSouthampton ASouthampton B29-5
Ian McDowellCambridge CLSE B9310
Cormac BeirneLSE ASouthampton A9810
Kevin FlanaganBristol AWarwick A9910
Benjamin WatsonOxford BBirmingham11810
James CarrigyEdinburghDurham A11810
Gavin MarkoffTeam 1Oxford A11810
Michael WuSouthampton BSouthampton A11910
Michael WuSouthampton BCambridge B121-5
Andrei HuiCambridge BSouthampton B13310
Percy YuenCambridge DDurham B13310
Charlie LowmanImperial BWarwick B1340