What's your Jazz IQ?

March 2008

1) Allan Holdsworth was in which band before he went solo?

Brand X
Nucleus
Soft Machine
Tribal Tech

2) Which pop star was a drummer for the fusion group Brand X?

Don Henley
Phil Collins
Ginger Baker
Charlie Watts

3) The Brecker Brothers appeared on which Asian fusion supergroup's first album?

Jimsaku
Casiopea
Hiroshima
The Vapors

4) Who was the saxophonist for Soft Machine?

Elton Dean
Tubby Hayes
Michael Brecker
Paul McCandless

5) Who was the guitarist for Tribal Tech?

Scott Henderson
Allan Holdsworth
Bill Connors
Larry Coryell

6) The band Sweet Smoke collectively decided to live where?

Apart
In a commune
In New York City
In Europe

7) Which fusion keyboardist wrote the theme to Miami Vice?

Herbie Hancock
Joe Zawinul
Kei Akagi
Jan Hammer

8) Trumpeter Ian Carr founded which British fusion group?

Soft Machine
Nucleus
Brand X
Shakatak

9) Which violinist appeared on Frank Zappa's 'Hot Rats' album?

Michal Urbaniak
Stephane Grappelli
Jean Luc Ponty
Jerry Goodman

10) Which musician was not part of the early fusion group 'Dreams'?

Bob Berg
Billy Cobham
John Abercrombie
Michael Brecker

11) Who played keys/organ in Ginger Baker's jazz fusion group?

Jan Hammer
Steve Winwood
Billy Preston
Herbie Hancock

12) Larry Coryell's fusion band was called what?

The Eleventh House
The Twelfth House
Spaces
Spirits

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