Ques: Information:  - Josef Erich "Joe" Zawinul (July 7, 1932  September 11, 2007) was an Austrian jazz keyboardist and composer.  - Wayne Shorter (born August 25, 1933) is an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Many of Shorter's compositions have become jazz standards, and his output has earned worldwide recognition, critical praise and various commendations, including 10 Grammy Awards. He has also received acclaim for his mastery of the soprano saxophone (after switching his focus from the tenor in the late 1960s), beginning an extended reign in 1970 as "Down Beat's" annual poll-winner on that instrument, winning the critics' poll for 10 consecutive years and the readers' for 18. The "New York Times" has described Shorter as "probably jazz's greatest living small-group composer and a contender for greatest living improviser."   - Peter Erskine (born June 5, 1954) is an American jazz drummer who was a member of the jazz fusion groups Weather Report and Steps Ahead  - John Francis Anthony "Jaco" Pastorius III (December 1, 1951  September 21, 1987) was an American jazz musician, composer, big band leader and electric bass player. He is best known for his work with Weather Report from 1976 to 1981, as well as work with artists including Joni Mitchell, Pat Metheny, and his own solo projects.  - Alphonso Johnson (born February 2, 1951) is an American jazz bassist, who has been active since the early 1970s.  - Chester Cortez Thompson (born December 11, 1948) is an American drummer and session musician.  - Miroslav Ladislav Vitouš (6 December 1947) is a Czech jazz bassist who is known for his extensive career in the US.  - Funk is a music genre that originated in the mid- 1960s when African American musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of soul music, jazz, and rhythm and blues (R&B). Funk de-emphasizes melody and chord progressions used in other related genres and brings a strong rhythmic groove of a bass line played by an electric bassist and a drum part played by a drummer to the foreground. Funk songs are often based on an extended vamp on a single chord, distinguishing them from R&B and soul songs, which are built on complex chord progressions. Funk uses the same richly-colored extended chords found in bebop jazz, such as minor chords with added sevenths and elevenths, or dominant seventh chords with altered ninths.  - Victor Bailey ( born March 27 , 1960 in Philadelphia ) is an American bass guitar player . He was the bass player for Weather Report during their final years from 1982 to 1986 , and launched a solo career in 1988 . Bailey attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston after being disqualified from naval service due to asthma .  - Alejandro Neciosup Acuña a.k.a. Alex Acuña (born December 12, 1944) is a Peruvian drummer and percussionist, in the Afro-Cuban jazz style.  - Airto Moreira (born August 5, 1941) is a Brazilian jazz drummer and percussionist. He is married to jazz singer Flora Purim, and their daughter Diana Moreira is also a singer. He currently resides in Los Angeles.  - Weather Report was an American jazz fusion band of the 1970s and early 1980s. The band was initially co-led by the Austrian-born keyboard player Joe Zawinul, the American saxophonist Wayne Shorter and Czech bassist Miroslav Vitouš. Due to creative and financial disagreements Vitouš left the band after a few years. Zawinul took increasing control and steered the band towards a more funk, R&B oriented sound. Other prominent members at various points in the band's lifespan included bassists Alphonso Johnson, Jaco Pastorius and Victor Bailey; and drummers/percussionists Peter Erskine, Alex Acuña, Airto Moreira and Chester Thompson.    After reading the paragraphs above, choose the best answer for the entity that related to 'victor bailey ' with the relationship of 'occupation'.  Choices: - band  - bassist  - drummer  - improviser  - jazz musician  - keyboardist  - member  - r  - saxophonist  - session musician  - singer
Ans: jazz musician

Ques: Information:  - The Third Life of Grange Copeland is the debut novel of American author Alice Walker. Published in 1970, it is set in rural Georgia. It tells the story of Grange, his wife, their son Brownfield, and granddaughter Ruth.  - The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music. It recognizes distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life, published during the preceding calendar year. As the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel, it was one of the original Pulitzers, for the program was inaugurated in 1917 with seven prizes, four of which were awarded that year. (No Novel prize was awarded in 1917; the first was awarded in 1918.)  - The Color Purple is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker that won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction. It was later adapted into a film and musical of the same name.  - Alice Malsenior Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and activist. She wrote the critically acclaimed novel "The Color Purple" (1982) for which she won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She also wrote "Meridian" and "The Third Life of Grange Copeland", among other works.  - The National Book Awards are a set of annual U.S. literary awards. At the final National Book Awards Ceremony every November, the National Book Foundation presents the National Book Awards and two lifetime achievement awards to authors.  - Meridian is a 1976 novel by American author Alice Walker . It has been described as Walker 's `` meditation on the modern civil rights movement . ''    After reading the paragraphs above, choose the best answer for the entity that related to 'meridian ' with the relationship of 'followed by'.  Choices: - 1917  - 1944  - 1970  - 1982  - 9  - a  - alice  - drama  - fiction  - first  - foundation  - georgia  - is  - letters  - life  - meridian  - music  - name  - novel  - one  - s  - seven  - she  - the color purple  - the final  - the story  - third  - u
Ans:
the color purple