Packet 8: Tossup 18

This city’s “jazz mom” Barbara Rose founded its Jazz at the Bistro concert series, which developed into (15[1])a nonprofit led by saxophonist Victor Goines. A suburb of this city titles a song with a growling, plunger-muted solo by Bubber Miley that exemplifies its band’s “jungle style.” (15[1]-5[2])The 16-bar bridge of a song titled (15[1])for this city uses a habanera rhythm that a composer (15[1])from another city called the “Spanish tinge.” (-5[1])A theatre in this city commissioned (-5[1])(*) Terence Blanchard’s two “operas in jazz.” (-5[1])This (-5[1])city titles a song recorded (-5[1])by Louis Armstrong and Bessie Smith that begins, “I hate to see / that (10[2])evenin’ (10[1])sun (10[1])go down” (10[1])as well (0[1])as a “Toodle-Oo” by (10[1])Duke (10[1])Ellington. (10[3]-5[1])Scott Joplin wrote “The Entertainer” in this city (10[2])after moving east from nearby (10[1])Sedalia. For 10 points, what midwestern (10[2])city titles a blues by (10[1])W. C. Handy? ■END■ (10[7]0[4])

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