What's your Jazz IQ?

May 2008

1) Which U.S. President helped celebrate Newport's 25th Anniversary by inviting a who's who of jazz musicians to perform at the White House?

Jimmy Carter
Richard Nixon
Gerald Ford
Ronald Reagan

2) Which U.S. President played the saxophone?

Jimmy Carter
Ronald Reagan
George W. Bush
Bill Clinton

3) Which jazz musician wrote 'Hymn to Freedom'?

Oscar Peterson
Max Roach
Archie Shepp
John Coltrane

4) Dinah Washington had how many husbands?

1
3
7
0

5) Who wrote 'The Train and the River'?

Jim Hall
Bob Brookmeyer
Jimmy Giuffre
Al Cohn

6) Which saxophonist was NOT one of Woody Herman's 'four brothers'?

Flip Phillips
Stan Getz
Serge Chaloff
Zoot Sims

7) Which guitarist is a product of the Tristano School?

Jim Hall
Sal Salvador
Billy Bauer
Johnny Smith

8) Which guitarist has a new album entitled 'History, Mystery'?

Kurt Rosenwinkel
Bill Frisell
Pat Metheny
John Abercrombie

9) Morgan Freeman is cast to play which jazz musician in an upcoming motion picture entitled 'The Jazz Ambassadors'?

Duke Ellington
John Coltrane
Dizzy Gillespie
Thelonious Monk

10) Who wrote 'Quiet Now'?

Bill Evans
George Shearing
Joe Zawinul
Danny Zeitlin

11) With who's music did Norman McLaren and John Hubley collaborate with by contributing animations?

Miles Davis
John Coltrane
Thelonious Monk
Oscar Peterson

12) The Keith Jarrett Trio has endured for how many years?

20
25
30
15

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