JAZZQUIZ
for
November
Try our monthly quiz. Fifteen questions to challenge those little grey cells.
A November Mixed Bag
For our quiz this month we give you a mixture of fifteen jazz-related questions. How many can you answer? Don't forget to check your score.
Give yourself an extra point if you are able to name this vocalist
A link to the answers is at the bottom of the page.
Don't forget to check your score.
1. Who wrote the song Where Or When that first featured in the 1937 show Babes In Arms?
2. In which neighbourhood of New York City was The Cotton Club first located?
3. Whose concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City on January 16, 1938, is described by critic Bruce Eder as "the single most important jazz or popular music concert in history: jazz's 'coming out' party to the world of 'respectable' music."/
4. What is Adrian Cox's main instrument?
5. Which American guitarist has made three gold albums, has won 20 Grammy Awards and is the only person to have won Grammys in 10 categories?
6. Which UK trombonist and bandleader was mainly responsible for arranging the first UK tours of blues musicians Big Bill Broonzy, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee and Muddy Waters in the late 1950s and early 1960s?
7. Dizzy Gillespie wrote the standard A Night In Tunisia. Where is Tunisia?
8. Why does Miss Otis regret she's unable to lunch today?
9. What tune did composer Bernie Miller write that became a jazz standard popularised by the Gerry Mulligan Quartet?
10. Who composed the tune Misty featured in Clint Eastwood’s 1971 film “Play Misty For Me” ?
11. Which UK vocalist has co-written and recorded multiple songs with double Grammy-winning pianist/composer Alan Broadbent?
12. What was New Orleans drummer 'Baby' Dodds actual first name ?
13. In 2024, saxophonist Sam Braysher released an album celebrating the music of which stage composer whose initials are K.W. His tunes included That's Him (the title of the album); and The Right Guy For Me. Who was the composer.?
14. Who directed the 1988 movie Bird, the biographical film about Charlie Parker?
15. According to the song, A Nightingale Sang ............ where?
The answers are HERE