Question
An Art Blakey Quintet album recorded at this location includes an intro by the notoriously violent and greedy Pee Wee Marquette, its four-foot-tall MC whom Lester Young called “half a mofo.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this New York City location that titles a 1977 Weather Report song written by Joe Zawinul.
ANSWER: Birdland [accept A Night at Birdland]
[10e] Us3’s (“us-three’s”) landmark acid jazz song “Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)” samples both Pee Wee’s intro from Blakey’s A Night at Birdland and “Cantaloupe Island” by this jazz fusion composer of “Rockit” and “Watermelon Man.”
ANSWER: Herbie Hancock [or Herbert Jeffrey Hancock]
[10h] Pee Wee extorted Bobby Hutcherson, a player of this instrument who composed Montara and Components. The musicians whose signature songs were “Flying Home” and “Bags’ Groove” played this instrument.
ANSWER: vibraphone [accept vibes; accept vibraharp] (The musicians are Lionel Hampton and Milt Jackson.)
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Summary
California | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
Great Lakes | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 8.33 | 50% | 17% | 17% |
Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 15.00 | 50% | 67% | 33% |
Midwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 10.00 | 83% | 17% | 0% |
Overflow | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 14.00 | 80% | 60% | 0% |
Pacific Northwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
Southeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 67% | 33% | 0% |
UK | 2025-02-01 | Y | 10 | 11.00 | 70% | 30% | 10% |
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Bruin A | Georgia Tech C | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
Georgia Tech A | Louisville A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Vanderbilt A | Alabama A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |