Packet 6: Tossup 10

A jazz musician with this first name wrote a melody that begins with an ascending B-flat minor scale starting from B-flat, leading to a long A-natural over a B-flat minor chord. In 1944, a band led by a musician with this first name had a trumpet section consisting of Fats Navarro, Dizzy Gillespie, and Miles Davis. That bebop big band was led by a singer with this first name and the last name Eckstine. A man with (10[1])this first name, who opened a song with the lyric “I used to visit all the very gay places,” (10[1])was himself openly gay by the 1930s. That composer with this first name (-5[1])wrote the songs “Chelsea Bridge,” “Lush Life,” and one about the way to (10[1]-5[1])“To go to Sugar (10[1])Hill (10[1])way (10[1]-5[2])up in Harlem.” (10[5]-5[1])For 10 (10[1])points, what is the first name of the composer of “Take (10[1])the (10[1])‘A’ Train,” (10[1]0[1]-5[4])a frequent collaborator of (-5[1])Duke Ellington with the last name Strayhorn? (10[2])■END■ (10[4]0[2])

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