Question
A 2002 Music Perception article describes a moment going into the first solo section on this album’s recording of “I’m Confessin’” as “a case of extreme rhythmic expression.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this album that includes its artist’s only recording of “North of the Sunset.” The track “Dinah” opens this album, which was the first to include its artist’s “homage to the bent note,” a song titled for his “Point.”
ANSWER: Solo Monk
[10m] In that article on expressive microtiming, this musician studied Thelonious Monk playing “I’m Confessin’.” A cover of Stevie Wonder’s “Big Brother” is included on the album Historicity by this Indian-American pianist.
ANSWER: Vijay Iyer (“EYE-ur”)
[10e] The album Architextures was Iyer’s first collaboration with Rudresh Mahanthappa, who plays this instrument. The bandleader of the albums The Epic and Heaven and Earth, Kamasi Washington, plays this instrument.
ANSWER: saxophone [or alto saxophone; or tenor saxophone]
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Summary
| 2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 15 | 13.33 | 93% | 40% | 0% |