JAZZQUIZ
for
July
Try our monthly quiz. Fifteen questions to challenge those little grey cells.
The Flower Show
This is the time of Fetes and Flower Shows, so in the quiz this month we give you fifteen jazz-related questions related to flowers. How many can you answer??
Give yourself one extra point if you are able to identify the title of the song that has these lyrics:​​
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laugh and run away like a child at play
Through the meadow land toward a closing door
A door marked "never more" that wasn't there before
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Don't forget to check your score. A link to the answers is at the bottom of this page.
1. Named after a room at the St Francis Hotel in San Francisco, this tune by Art Hickman was recorded by Duke Ellington in 1932 and Charlie Christian jammed on it for 45 minutes with Benny Goodman in 1939.
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2. This string of flowers can be hung round someone’s neck or as a decoration on festive occasions. It is also the surname of a jazz pianist who played with the Miles Davis Quintet.
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3. What was the flower Billie Holiday wore in her hair?
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4. The flower in question 3, but of a different colour, was also used as the title of an Etta James album and of a 1953 film by Fritz Lang for which Nat King Cole sang the title song. What was it?
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5. What is ‘Convallaria majalis’, a sweetly scented, highly poisonous woodland flower and the name of a tune recorded by the Preservation Hall Jazz Band?
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6. In Good Time, The Piano Jazz of Marian McPartland is a film that contains a tune that is played as a tribute to her husband, Jimmy. It is originally a Scottish folk song with lyrics that begin: ‘O where and O where does your highland laddie dwell ..’ What is the title of the song?
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7. Which sweet-smelling Rose did Andy Razaf write about and Fats sing about?
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8. Unopened flower + released slave = which tenor saxophone player?
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9. Sounds like you need this flower to play a trumpet or trombone.
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10. What is this heavenly flower – possibly not named after Charlie Parker.
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11. Written in 1928 by Jimmy McHugh and Dorothy Field’s, her wedding day is known to jazz as ‘The ???????? Progression’ (In the key of C: C-C7-F-Fm). Named after a tree with large white flowers, Chris Barber recorded her wedding day tune in 1955 with Mickey Ashman on bass and Pat Halcox giving a nice solo on cornet.
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12. This tree, the Cornus, produces beautiful pink flowers in February and March and berries from July to September. It is also the surname of a jazz trumpeter particularly known for his work with Ornette Coleman. What is it?
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13. What was the floral / herbal first name of the singer who started out with Tony Pastor’s Big Band, starred with Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye and Vera-Ellen in White Christmas, and was the aunt of actor George (O Brother, Where Art Thou)?
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14. Recorded by the Michael Garrick Septet in the 1960s, this album turned a popular yellow garden flower of the daisy / dandelion family, black. The album featured Joe Harriott, Don Rendell, Tony Coe, Ian Carr and Michael Garrick, with the title track played on harpsichord.
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15. This fragrant climbing flower is the name of a track on the Miles Davis Water Babies album. ‘Released during Miles Davis's retirement in the second half of the seventies, it is a collection of stylistically diverse "leftovers" spanning eighteen months, from the Nefertiti sessions with the Miles Davis Quintet (1967) to the experimental, transitional period between Filles de Kilimanjaro and In A Silent Way (late 1968)’. It is also the affectionate name Popeye used for Olive Oyl in the Popeye Cartoons.
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The answers are HERE