Complex sentence: Fraize worked with Scapes, a quintet which won first prize at the 1989 Middelzee Jazz Concours.Upon returning to Washington, D.C., in 1989, Fraize formed the fusion group Stickman, which performed at the Mellon Jazz Festival in Pittsburgh.
Split into simpler sentences: Fraize worked with Scapes, a quintet which won first prize at the 1989 Middelzee Jazz Concours. On returning to the United States in 1989, Fraize formed the fusion group Stickman, which performed at the Mellon Jazz Festival in Pittsburgh.