Question
Answer the following about jazz albums whose covers were designed by the artist Paul Bacon, for 10 points each.
[10m] This musician recorded “Crepuscule With Nellie” for an album with a Bacon cover in which he sits in a red wagon. Sonny Rollins played saxophone on the complex title track of this musician’s 1957 album Brilliant Corners.
ANSWER: Thelonious Monk [or Thelonious Sphere Monk; accept Monk’s Music]
[10h] Signed testimonials by George Shearing and Ahmad Jamal appear on Bacon’s cover for an album titled Everybody Digs this musician. This musician briefly quit playing when his bassist died in a car crash at age 25.
ANSWER: Bill Evans [or William John Evans] (The bassist is Scott LaFaro, who died shortly after the recording of Sunday at the Village Vanguard and Waltz for Debby.)
[10e] Bacon overlaid an image of this instrument over a cornucopia on his cover for the LP Horn of Plenty by Dizzy Gillespie, who was known for playing a bent version of this brass instrument.
ANSWER: trumpet
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Summary
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