JAZZQUIZ
for
February
Try our monthly quiz. Fifteen questions to challenge those little grey cells.
Easy As A,B,C?
In the quiz this month we give you fifteen questions each with three possible answers. How many do you know?
Don't forget to check your score.
Give yourself one extra point if you were able to complete the missing line from this song:
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Starting with, the "A, B, C of it
Right down to the "X, Y, Z" of it
Help me solve the mystery of it
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1. In 1912, young Louis Armstrong borrowed his stepfather's gun without permission and fired a blank into the air. He was arrested and spent the night at New Orleans Juvenile Court. The next day he was sentenced to detention in:
(a) The New Orleans Youth Detention Centre : (b) The Home for Colored Offenders : (c) The Colored Waif's Home
2. The track Will O' The Wisp appears on which Miles Davis album:
(a) Kind Of Blue : (b) Sketches Of Spain : (c) Bitches Brew
3. In 1956 trumpeter Clifford Brown sadly died in a car crash. How old was he?:
(a) 34 : (b) 25 : (c) 42
4. At an August 16 concert at the Victor Hugo Restaurant in Beverley Hills, talent spotter John Hammond placed a guitarist on the Benny Goodman bandstand. Goodman, not keen on having a guitar player in the orchestra, started playing Rose Room, on the assumption that the guitarist didn't know it, but his performance impressed the audience immensely. According to Hammond, "before long the crowd was screaming with amazement. Rose Room continued for more than three quarters of an hour." Who was the guitar player?​
(a) Freddy Green : (b) Charlie Christian : (c) Carmen Mastren​
5. Perhaps the best known album by the band Weather Report is Heavy Weather (1977). Who is the bass player on the album:
(a) Jaco Pastorius : (b) Alphonso Johnson : (c) Scott LaFaro
6. In 1936, Scottish trombonist George Chisholm moved from Glasgow to London where he played with which dance band?:
(a) Bert Ambrose : (b) Jack Hylton : (c) Roy Fox
7. Stanley Jordan has an unusual technique for playing the guitar. He uses two hands to play each note. One hand presses down a guitar string behind a chosen fret to prepare the note, and the other hand either plucks or strums the string to play that note. This is an advanced form of:
(a) Two-hand tapping : (b) Dexterity plucking : (c) Fret enhancement
8. In 1964, Nina Simone introduced a song on her album Nina Simone In Concert that was her response to the June 12, 1963, murder of Medgar Evers and the September 15, 1963, bombing of the 165th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, that killed four young black girls and partly blinded a fifth. What was the title of the song?:
(a) Fables Of Faubus : (b) Mississippi Goddam : (c) Four Women
9. Based in New Orleans, this traditional jazz street band began as an itinerant busking band but has now played in Australia, Mexico and many European countries. At least one of the band members was arrested for "bumming for money on Bourbon Street and had learned to play a musical instrument to no longer have to beg for spare change. Their talented cornet player is Shaye Cohn. What is the band's name?​
(a) Slim Pickins : (b) Trombone Shorty : (c) Tuba Skinny
10. Which of these jazz vocalists has NOT recorded an album of Leonard Cohen songs?
(a) Barb Jungr : (b) Christine Tobin : (c) Claire Martin
11. According to the 1931 Harry Warren, Joseph Young, Mort Dixon song "You're My ........ ?
(a) Everything : (b) Everlasting Love : (c) Wonderwall
12. Gene Krupa's father, Bartłomiej, was an American immigrant from which country?
(a) Israel : (b) Poland : (c) The Netherlands
13. There was a time when 78 rpm jazz records were produced using shellac. What is shellac made from?
(a) A resin secreted by bugs : (b) A form of graphite : (c) Guano
14. Who was the first cornet player in the Original Dixieland Jazz Band?
(a) Paul Mares : (b) Nick LaRocca : (c) Frank Christian
15. Which jazz club would you find in Frith Street in London?
(a) Ronnie Scott's Cub : (b) The Vortex : (c) The 606 Club
The Answers Are HERE