What's your Jazz IQ?

August 2008

1) Which jazz organist appeared on Michael Jackson's title song 'Bad'?

Jimmy Smith
Joey DeFrancesco
Lonnie Smith
Jimmy McGriff

2) In 1993, there was talk of making a Miles Davis motion picture biopic. Who was originally supposed to play Miles?

Wesley Snipes
Denzel Washington
Taye Diggs
Wayne Brady

3) Which pianist gave Oscar Peerson crying fits and haunted him at night?

Willie 'The Lion' Smith
Fats Waller
Art Tatum
Earl 'Fatha' Hines

4) Pianist Jutta Hipp only recorded this many albums before retiring from the jazz scene.

8
5
2
10

5) Who composed the song 'Dindi'?

Luiz Bonfa
Joao Gilberto
Antonio Carlos Jobim
Eumir Deodato

6) On the Cannonball Adderley album 'Country Preacher', who is the speaker who is speaking on the record.

Jesse Jackson
Al Sharpton
Martin Luther King Jr.
Malcolm X

7) Which tenor sax giant studied under Capt. Walter Dyett iin Chicago, who also happened to teach Nat King Cole and Dinah Washington?

Don Byas
Benny Golson
Gene Ammons
Johnny Griffin

8) Which late-night program house band did Hiram Bullock play with?

Jay Leno
David Letterman
Johnny Carson
Arsenio Hall

9) Who is the youngest member of the jazz fusion supergroup Return To Forever?

Chick Corea
Al DiMeola
Stanley Clarke
Lenny White

10) On August 4th, which jazz icon would have turned 107?

Duke Ellington
Fats Waller
Louis Armstrong
Sidney Bechet

11) On his Prestige Recording, 'MONK', Thelonious Monk plays 'Smoke Gets In Your Eyes' and deliberately quotes a major theme from which classical composer?

Ravel
Debussy
Beethoven
Mozart

12) What is the only Paul Desmond composition that Keith Jarrett has recorded?

Take Five
Late Lament
Desmond Blue
Embarcadero

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