Round 7: Tossup 18

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

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