In 2024, this singer won a Grammy Award for Best Jazz Performance for her cover of the Betty Carter song “Tight.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this five-time Grammy winner and jazz singer behind the album Linger Awhile. She gained fame after winning the 2019 Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition.
ANSWER: Samara Joy [or Samara Joy McLendon]
[10e] After the title track on Linger Awhile, Joy covered this jazz pianist’s standard “Round Midnight.” This musician also composed “Straight, No Chaser.”
ANSWER: Thelonious Monk [or Thelonious Sphere Monk]
[10m] Joy collaborated with a drummer with this surname and first name Kenny on her Grammy-winning album A Joyful Holiday. A saxophonist with this surname released the 2015 album The Epic and the 2018 album Heaven and Earth.
ANSWER: Washington [accept Kenny Washington or Kamasi Washington]
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