Ben Webster played a passionate tenor saxophone solo in this work’s second section, which also features a lyric describing the blues as “a cold, grey day.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this suite performed at Carnegie Hall in 1943. The line “please look down and see my people through” is repeated at the beginning of this suite’s section “Come Sunday.”
ANSWER: Black, Brown and Beige
[10e] Black, Brown and Beige was a foray into large forms by this jazz musician whose signature tunes included “Take the ‘A’ Train.”
ANSWER: Duke Ellington [or Edward Kennedy Ellington]
[10m] Although Ellington never recorded the full version of Black, Brown and Beige, it was recorded in 2020 by this trumpeter who is the artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center.
ANSWER: Wynton Marsalis [or Wynton Learson Marsalis]
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