Packet E: Tossup 9

A musician with this first name recorded “Blazin’” and “Nice Work If You Can Get It” (-5[1])on an album titled for his “Bits.” (-5[1])This first name partially titles a 12-bar blues whose melody begins by walking down a B-flat minor pentatonic (-5[1])scale. (-5[2])This first name punningly (-5[1])titles an album by Dizzy (-5[1])Gillespie (10[1])and two saxophonists who shared it. (10[5])A (10[1])Charlie-Parker-influenced (10[2])alto player with this first name who later became a hard bop tenor player had the surname Stitt. A musician (10[2])with this (10[1])first name (10[1])wrote (10[1])the rhythm changes standard “Oleo,” (-5[1])a song whose title is (10[1])“Nigeria” backwards, (10[1]-5[2])and a standard based on a Bahamian folk song. (10[1])That musician (10[2])with this first name recorded “Blue Seven” and “St. Thomas” on the album (10[2])Saxophone (10[1])Colossus. (10[4]-5[1])For (10[1])10 points, (-5[1])give this (-5[1])first name (10[1])of the tenor saxophonist Rollins. (10[2])■END■ (10[26]0[31])

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