Round 8: 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. 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 for this city uses a habanera rhythm that a composer from another city called the “Spanish tinge.” A theatre in this city commissioned (-5[1])(*) Terence Blanchard’s two “operas in jazz.” This city titles a song recorded by Louis Armstrong and Bessie Smith that begins, “I hate to see / that evenin’ sun go down” as well as a “Toodle-Oo” by Duke Ellington. Scott Joplin wrote “The Entertainer” in this city after moving east from nearby Sedalia. (-5[1])For 10 points, what midwestern city titles a blues by W. C. Handy? (10[1])■END■ (10[3]0[2])

ANSWER: St. Louis [accept East St. Louis; accept “East St. Louis Toodle-Oo”; accept “St. Louis Blues”]
<FW, Other Auditory Fine Arts> | NAFTA-Packet-8
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Summary

TournamentEditionMatchHeardConv. %Power %Neg %Avg. Buzz
2026 NAFTA at Stanford01/17/20264100%25%0%100.50
2026 NAFTA at UBC01/17/20262100%0%50%131.00
2025 NAFTA Online02/14/2026475%25%25%92.33
2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt02/14/2026367%0%0%106.00
2025 NAFTA at Toronto09/13/2025580%0%40%137.75
2025 NAFTA at Maryland09/27/20255100%0%40%113.00
2025 NAFTA at Harvard10/04/2025367%33%33%69.00
2025 NAFTA at Oxford10/11/20254100%25%50%108.00
2025 NAFTA at Chicago11/08/20256100%17%33%115.33
2025 NAFTA at Columbia11/08/20255100%0%20%123.00
2025 NAFTA at Richmond12/20/2025250%0%50%113.00