Round 5: Tossup 9

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

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