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A man who played this instrument pioneered an improvisatory, atonal style on the album Free Jazz. With Joao Gilberto ("zhow zhee-buhr-too”), another player of this instrument recorded a pioneering (15[1])bossa nova album. Stan Getz played this instrument, (15[1])as did the artist of The Shape of Jazz To Come, Ornette Coleman. In “Ko-Ko” and (-5[1])(*) “Ornithology” are songs by a bebop pioneer nicknamed “Bird” who played this instrument. Another player of this instrument used a style dubbed “sheets of sound” on Giant Steps five years before recording A Love Supreme. Charlie Parker and John Coltrane played, for 10 points, what single-reed woodwind that comes in alto and tenor varieties? ■END■ (10[1])

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