JAZZQUIZ
for
October
Try our monthly quiz. Fifteen questions to challenge those little grey cells.
First Born
For our quiz this month we give you fifteen sets of two jazz musicians and ask you which of them was born first? How many can you work out?
This is the first verse of Jon Hendricks' lyrics to the Thelonious Monk tune In Walked Bud. Give yourself one extra point if you are able to recognise who 'Bud' was referring to:
Dizzy,he was screamin'
Next to O.P. who was beamin'
Monk was thumpin'
Suddenly in walked Bud
And then they got into somethin'
A link to the answers is at the bottom of the page.
Don't forget to check your score.
THE ANSWERS
First Born -
Who was born first?
1. Louis Armstrong or King Oliver ?
2. Alec Dankworth or Jacqui Dankworth ?
3. Sidney Bechet or Tommy Ladnier ?
4. Benny Goodman or Tommy Dorsey ?
5. John Coltrane or Miles Davis ?
6. Chris Barber or Acker Bilk ?
7. Charlie Parker or Dizzy Gillespie ?
8. Ella Fitzgerald or Sarah Vaughan ?
9. Pat Metheny or John Scofield ?
10. Stéphane Grappelli or Django Reinhardt ?
11. Gregory Porter or Stacey Kent ?
12. J. J. Johnson or Kai Winding ?
13. Bill Evans or Brad Mehldau ?
14. Humphrey Lyttelton or Cy Laurie ?
15. Buddy Rich or Gene Krupa ?
The answers are HERE