Packet 11: Bonus 4
This musician was financially supported by Baroness Nica de Koenigswarter, a member of the Rothschild family. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this musician who displayed his distinctive angular style on jazz standards he wrote like “‘Round Midnight” and “Straight, No Chaser.”
ANSWER: Thelonious Monk [or Thelonious Sphere Monk]
[10m] A 1955 album centers on Monk “Play[ing] the Music of” this bandleader, such as “It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing).” This man’s band first recorded “Take the ‘A’ Train.”
ANSWER: Duke Ellington [or Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington; accept Thelonious Monk Plays the Music of Duke Ellington]
[10e] Baroness Koenigswarter appears as a French Resistance fighter on the cover of Monk’s album Underground, which features a track titled “Raise [this number].” This is the number of musicians who made up the Modern Jazz Quartet.
ANSWER: four [accept “Raise Four”]
<Auditory Fine Arts — Sriram Susarla> | SHOW-ME Four Packet 11
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