Packet 11: Tossup 11

A British player of this instrument featured Esperanza Spalding on “Dawn,” the first track of her 2024 album Odyssey. A Xhosa word for a bellowing bull titles the standard “Yakhal’Inkomo” by Winston Mankunku, who played this instrument. Basil Coetzee solos on this instrument for most of Abdullah Ibrahim’s song “Mannenberg.” Nubya (“nuh-BYE-uh”) Garcia plays this instrument, (15[1]-5[1])as do a pair of brothers who lead the bands Positive Force and Egypt 80. A player of this instrument (15[1])criticized (*) soldiers who blindly (10[1])follow orders in a song written shortly before his (-5[1])Kalakuta Republic was raided. To Pimp (10[1]-5[1])a Butterfly features Terrace Martin and Kamasi Washington (10[3])on this instrument (10[2])and samples a song by Fela Kútì, who primarily played it. (-5[1])For 10 points, name this instrument played by Pharoah Sanders and by the composer of A Love Supreme. ■END■ (10[4])

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