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])

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