Round 6: 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.” (-5[1])This first name partially titles a 12-bar blues whose melody begins by walking down a B-flat minor pentatonic scale. (-5[2])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, (-5[1])and a standard based on a Bahamian folk song. That musician (10[1])with this first name recorded “Blue Seven” and “St. Thomas” on the album Saxophone Colossus. (-5[1])For 10 points, give this (-5[1])first name of the tenor saxophonist Rollins. (10[2])■END■ (10[6]0[4])

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