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 (-5[1])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. 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[2]0[3])

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