Bonus
Answer the following about jazz albums whose covers were designed by the artist Paul Bacon, for 10 points each.
[10m] This musician recorded “Crepuscule With Nellie” for an album with a Bacon cover in which he sits in a red wagon. Sonny Rollins played saxophone on the complex title track of this musician’s 1957 album Brilliant Corners.
ANSWER: Thelonious Monk [or Thelonious Sphere Monk; accept Monk’s Music]
[10h] Signed testimonials by George Shearing and Ahmad Jamal appear on Bacon’s cover for an album titled Everybody Digs this musician. This musician briefly quit playing when his bassist died in a car crash at age 25.
ANSWER: Bill Evans [or William John Evans] (The bassist is Scott LaFaro, who died shortly after the recording of Sunday at the Village Vanguard and Waltz for Debby.)
[10e] Bacon overlaid an image of this instrument over a cornucopia on his cover for the LP Horn of Plenty by Dizzy Gillespie, who was known for playing a bent version of this brass instrument.
ANSWER: trumpet
<AP, Other Fine Arts>
| Editions | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 20 | 13.50 | 95% | 25% | 15% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ASU | TAMU | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Brandeis A | Tufts A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Brown A | Harvard A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | MHE |
| Cambridge A | Oxford A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Carnegie Mellon A | Michigan C | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Case Western A | Michigan State | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Chicago B | Missouri | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Georgetown A | Notre Dame A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| MIT A | Brandeis B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | HE |
| Michigan A | Kenyon | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Michigan B | Case Western B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Michigan D | Ohio State A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Northwestern A | Purdue | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | MHE |
| Notre Dame C | Georgetown B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Ohio State B | Carnegie Mellon B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Stanford B | Iowa | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Texas A | Texas B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| UBC | Alberta | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| UW B | UW A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Virginia Tech A | Virginia A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Great Lakes | 2025-02-01 | 6 | 8.33 | 83% | 0% | 0% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| Midwest | 2025-02-01 | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| Northeast | 2025-02-01 | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 33% | 67% |
| Overflow | 2025-02-01 | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 25% | 25% |
| Pacific Northwest | 2025-02-01 | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| South Central | 2025-02-01 | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| UK | 2025-02-01 | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |