Charlie Parker - 2025 ACF Fall

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Similarity to this musician’s style led an early-career Sonny Stitt to often be accused (10[1])of being an unoriginal (10[1])mimic. Ken Slone and Jamey Aebersold created this man’s “Omnibook,” which transcribes his (10[1])solos on songs like “Confirmation.” (10[1]-5[1])This musician used chains (-5[1])of (-5[1])ii-V (-5[1])(“two-five”) progressions (10[1]-5[6])in 12-bar (-5[1])blues songs (-5[2])like “Billie’s Bounce” (10[2])and “Blues (10[1]-5[2])for (-5[1])Alice.” (10[2]-5[4])This musician (10[2])played a (-5[2])plastic (10[1]-5[1])instrument (10[2]-5[2])at Massey (10[1])Hall (10[1])alongside Dizzy Gillespie, (-5[1])who (-5[1])appeared (-5[1])on his (-5[1])song (-5[1])“Ko-Ko.” (10[2]-5[2])In the 1940s, (-5[1])this musician developed a style of jazz that emphasized (-5[1])fast, technical (10[1]-5[1])improvisation. (10[2]-5[4])For (-5[1])10 points, name this pioneering (-5[1])bebop (10[1])saxophonist (10[6]-5[4])whose (10[1]-5[2])composition (10[1]-5[5])“Ornithology” (10[2]-5[1])puns (10[3])on (-5[1])his (10[2])nickname, (10[6])“Bird.” (10[5])■END■ (10[37]0[42])

ANSWER: Charlie Parker [or Charlie Parker Jr.; accept Bird or Yardbird before “Bird” is read; accept Charlie Parker Omnibook]

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Player	Team	Opponent	Position	Value
Dmitri Anh-Minh Tran	UC Santa Barbara	UCLA C	13	10
Henry Nonnemaker	CWRU C	Michigan D	17	10
Kevin He	Toronto A	Waterloo A	30	10
Jeremy Kim	Toronto F	McMaster C	35	-5
Nicholas Decker	George Mason A	Maryland B	35	10
James Haddix	Washington State	British Columbia C	39	-5
Matthew Kohn	Williams A	Vermont B	40	-5
Gannon Smith	Maryland A	Rutgers A	41	-5
Denali Tran-Le	McGill B	Ottawa D	42	-5
Peter Zeng	Ohio State A	Louisville B	42	-5
Kieran Fake	CWRU D	Michigan C	42	10
Henry Bauer	NYU A	Maryland C	42	-5
David Nickel	Purdue A	Chicago B	42	-5
David Black	Illinois Champaign	Iowa B	42	-5
Eric Zhu	Cornell D	Cornell A	42	-5
Micah Lauzon	Dartmouth B	Williams B	44	-5
Andrew Nucci	UCLA B	Claremont B	46	-5
Anthony Yin	CWRU A	CWRU B	46	-5
Nico Pascual	Michigan State B	Ohio State B	49	10
Allen Xu	Georgia Tech A	Georgia Tech C	49	10
Snehan Saroch	Louisville A	Michigan State A	51	-5
Drew Wetterlind	Iowa State	Wisconsin A	51	-5
James Bramley	Durham C	Sheffield B	51	10
Joseph Cole	UNC A	Virginia Tech A	52	-5
Michael Xu	McMaster B	Waterloo C	53	-5
Saswat Sasha Tripathi	Chicago A	WashU Grizzlers	53	-5
Beckett Pursey	Purdue B	Illinois Canada	53	10
Camden Walker	WashU Grolars	Indiana A	53	-5
Liam Markland	Alberta A	Washington Atlantic	53	-5
Towery McNeil	Mississippi State A	Vanderbilt B	53	10
Aaron Bates	Washington Pink	Washington Masu	55	10
Devin Tharp	Chipola College	Clemson A	55	10
Vivian Fan	Claremont A	UCLA D	57	-5
Kevin Yang	Illinois Blue	William Woods University A	57	-5
Mackenzie Tott	Columbia A	Princeton	58	-5
Nico Miller	Brown B	MIT A	58	10
Jonathan Sung	Virginia A	Virginia Tech B	59	-5
James O'Reilly	Arizona State A	Washington Sockeye	59	10
Alan Fan	Washington Steelhead	Washington Chinook	59	-5
Shaya Farahmand	Georgia Tech B	Auburn B	59	10
Braydon Morefield	George Mason B	Johns Hopkins	61	10
Carter Yott	McMaster A	Toronto D	62	10
Britton Webster	Alabama A	Vanderbilt A	65	-5
Ethan Ririe	UCSD B	UCSD A	66	-5
Will Barton	Imperial C	Bristol	67	-5
Zoe Brennan	Virginia Tech C	UNC D	69	-5
Will Jones	Michigan State D	Louisville C	70	-5
Adrian Li	Berkeley Archer Queen	Berkeley Mighty Miner	71	-5
Ethan Altshul	Emory A	Georgia A	71	10
Samarth Prajapati	Georgia Tech E	Georgia Tech F	71	10
Madeline Painter	Georgia Tech D	Tennessee B	71	-5
Valerie Brown	Carleton B	Ottawa C	74	-5
Julian Moody	Tufts A	Amherst A	83	-5
Charlie Ruff	McGill A	McGill C	85	-5
Andy Liu	British Columbia A	Washington Coho	85	10
Anna Bocook	Louisville D	Ohio State C	86	-5
Neal Tandon	Columbia B	George Mason C	86	-5
Gabe Rosen-Turits	NYU B	Lehigh B	86	-5
Emily Justak	Indiana B	Illinois Orange	86	-5
Miguel Carreira	Imperial B	Birmingham	86	10
Owen Linder	Binghamton A	RIT B	86	10
Joseph Wang	UCLA E	USC A	87	-5
Thomas Vukovic	Toronto H	Toronto I	92	-5
Judah Friedman	UConn A	Boston University A	93	10
Sarah Silverman	Claremont C	UC Irvine	94	10
Anthony Chen	USC B	UCLA A	94	10
John Shelly	Rowan	Vassar B	94	-5
Will Demos	Wisconsin B	Minnesota	94	-5
Jack Granahan	Brandeis Mozart	Boston College A	94	10
Eames Weeks	Brown A	Dartmouth A	94	10
Will Hamilton	Vermont A	Tufts B	94	-5
Eleanor Arron	Williams C	Dartmouth C	94	10
Rob Morris	Durham D	Edinburgh D	94	-5
Pen Hughes	Edinburgh C	Durham A	94	10
Graydon Allard	Ottawa A	Ottawa B	95	10
Ibraheem Alkrahgholy	Guelph A	Toronto E	95	-5
John Shelley	Clemson B	Montevallo	95	-5
Danny Han	Stanford B	Berkeley Boss Bandit	96	-5
Zack Wiffen	Waterloo B	Toronto G	96	-5
Alma Gazzaniga	UNC B	UNC C	96	-5
Nelson Adams-Riley	Sewanne	Clemson C	96	-5
Nayaaz Hashim	Oxford	Imperial D	96	-5
Judah Garlic	Cornell C	Binghamton B	96	10
Alex Randall	Kentucky	Pittsburgh	97	10
Sarah Dong	Michigan A	Michigan B	97	10
Alex Grigoriades	Lehigh A	Rutgers B	97	-5
March Delfin	UCSD A	UCSD B	98	10
Jamie Pach	Ottawa D	McGill B	98	10
Connor King	St. Thomas	Macalester	98	10
Gerrit Severeid	McGill E	Carleton A	99	-5
Keerthana Krishnan	Texas	British Columbia B	100	10
Bethany Howard	Imperial A	Cambridge D	100	10
June Miller	Florida A	UCF A	101	10
Ben Stras	Wisconsin C	Michigan Tech	101	10
Daniel Slater	Tennessee Tech	Auburn A	101	10
Trey Lewis	South Carolina A	Tennessee A	101	10
Aidan Keenan	Rochester	Binghamton C	101	10
Aidan Keenan	Rochester	Binghamton C	101	10
Malcolm Meyn	McGill C	McGill A	102	10
Lauryn Hendrix	Louisville C	Michigan State D	102	10
Allison Cox	William & Mary A	NCSU A	102	10
Dustin Sanders	Chicago B	Purdue A	102	10
Abhinav Dinesh	LSE	Warwick	102	10
Vijay Hans	Berkeley Boss Bandit	Stanford B	103	0
Hansen Jin	Berkeley Skeleton King	Berkeley Little Prince	103	10
Jackson Crickard	Claremont B	UCLA B	103	10
Nikola Wu	UCLA D	Claremont A	103	0
Chris Chang	USC A	UCLA E	103	0
Alden Thompson	Carleton A	McGill E	103	10
Sam Montgomery	Ottawa C	Carleton B	103	0
Simon Choist	Queen's A	Brock A	103	0
Ellie Wang	Brock A	Queen's A	103	0
Sean Gao	Toronto E	Guelph A	103	10
Adithya Parat	McMaster C	Toronto F	103	10
Victor Xu	Toronto B	Toronto C	103	0
Nameer Qadir	Toronto C	Toronto B	103	10
Shaynee Ruffle	Toronto G	Waterloo B	103	10
Indigo Chen	Waterloo C	McMaster B	103	0
Yishak Kelkay	ERAU Daytona A	Florida State A	103	0
Juan Landaeta	Florida State A	ERAU Daytona A	103	0
Addison Wiggins	South Florida A	Florida Tech B	103	0
Orin Overmiller	Florida Tech B	South Florida A	103	0
Meredith Wiper	CWRU B	CWRU A	103	10
Brody Johnson	Louisville B	Ohio State A	103	10
Andrew Harms	Michigan State A	Louisville A	103	10
Miles Spieler	Ohio State C	Louisville D	103	10
Maya Hunt	Michigan State C	Ohio State D	103	0
Ryan Liu	Ohio State D	Michigan State C	103	0
Agatha Dahle	WVU A	WVU B	103	0
Marcus Hatfield	WVU B	WVU A	103	0
Parker Jones	NCSU B	Liberty B	103	10
Gabriel Dodds	Liberty C	Tusculum A	103	10
Zachary Bornstein	Virginia Tech A	UNC A	103	10
Emily Kadolph	Virginia Tech B	Virginia A	103	10
William Erwin	William & Mary B	JMU A	103	0
Erin Williams	JMU A	William & Mary B	103	0
Nathan Redford	Liberty A	William & Mary C	103	0
Jacob Schildkraut	William & Mary C	Liberty A	103	0
Abbi Tesreau	George Mason C	Columbia B	103	10
Nicholas Ryan	Lehigh B	NYU B	103	10
Jason Lee	Rutgers A	Maryland A	103	10
Ben Spirtas	Maryland C	NYU A	103	10
Johnathan Ahdout	Princeton	Columbia A	103	0
Claire Harvey	Vassar B	Rowan	103	0
Sophia Peng	Rutgers C	NYU C	103	10
Alex Wong	Rutgers D	Penn	103	0
Zachary Leblang	Penn	Rutgers D	103	0
Ben Schindelman	Vassar A	Stony Brook	103	0
Lily Katz	Stony Brook	Vassar A	103	10
Conner Yamnitz	WashU Grizzlers	Chicago A	103	10
Jacob Chaudhry	Iowa B	Illinois Champaign	103	10
Anila Moparthi	Illinois Orange	Indiana B	103	10
Misty Chen	Purdue C	Iowa A	103	0
Grace Early	Iowa A	Purdue C	103	0
Samson Vickrey	Purdue D	Rose-Hulman A	103	10
Trenton Burgess	Indiana A	WashU Grolars	103	10
Alex Dzurick	William Woods University A	Illinois Blue	103	10
Henry L'Heureux	Minnesota	Wisconsin B	103	0
Alex Smits	Wisconsin A	Iowa State	103	0
Rafael Gómez	Amherst B	Boston University B	103	10
Anthony Xu	Amherst A	Tufts A	103	0
Dylan Tanouye	Tufts B	Vermont A	103	0
David Ciardella	Vermont B	Williams A	103	10
Penelope Graham	Williams B	Dartmouth B	103	10
Sonya Bates	Washington Atlantic	Alberta A	103	10
Tri Lam	Washington Chum	Alberta B	103	10
Alan Zhang	British Columbia C	Washington State	103	0
Darren Kellis	Vanderbilt A	Alabama A	103	10
Edward Zhang	Vanderbilt C	Auburn C	103	0
Andrew Wilson	Montevallo	Clemson B	103	0
Jason Cottle	Clemson C	Sewanne	103	10
Alex Miller	Edinburgh B	Durham B	103	10
Laura Bullock	Sheffield A	Edinburgh A	103	0
Harry Sexton	Edinburgh A	Sheffield A	103	0
Mata Cooper	Southampton	Cambridge A	103	0
Fahim Afzal	Cambridge A	Southampton	103	0
Adam Doyle	Cambridge E	Cambridge C	103	0
Charlie Nicholls	Cambridge C	Cambridge E	103	0
Josh Morris	Bristol	Imperial C	103	0
Judah Solomon	Imperial D	Oxford	103	0
Reese Powell	Cornell A	Cornell D	103	10
Will Hoover	RIT A	ESF	103	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	TUH	Conv. %	Neg %	Average Buzz
UK (North)	UK	5	60%	20%	82.67
UK (South)	UK	7	43%	29%	96.00
Northern California	US	3	33%	67%	103.00
Southern California	US	7	71%	57%	80.40
Eastern Canada (1)	US	5	80%	80%	99.50
Eastern Canada (2)	US	9	67%	56%	84.00
Florida	US	3	33%	0%	101.00
Great Lakes	US	12	83%	42%	81.60
Lower Mid-Atlantic	US	9	56%	44%	102.80
Upper Mid-Atlantic	US	10	70%	60%	97.00
Upper Mid-Atlantic	US	2	50%	50%	35.00
Midwest	US	9	89%	67%	96.63
North	US	4	50%	50%	99.50
Northeast	US	10	80%	40%	92.75
Pacific	US	8	75%	38%	84.17
Southeast	US	13	77%	31%	76.60
Upstate NY	US	6	100%	17%	98.33