What's your Jazz IQ?

March 2006

1) Who claimed to have invented jazz music?

Sidney Bechet
Jelly Roll Morton
Louis Armstrong
Buddy Bolden

2) Who was actually the first documented jazz improviser?

King Oliver
Freddie Keppard
The Original Dixieland Jazz Band
Buddy Bolden

3) Choose the musician who has NOT been recorded and documented as both a jazz saxophonist AND trumpeter.

Woody Herman
Benny Carter
Ornette Coleman
Ira Sullivan

4) Charlie Parker and Thelonious Monk both died in this person's residence. Who was it?

Dizzy Gillespie
Leonard Feather
Pannonica de Koenigswarter
Rudy Van Gelder

5) Miles Davis kicked this saxophonist out of his band for actually writing down what he was going to pass off as improvised solos in concerts.

George Coleman
Jackie McLean
Hank Mobley
Steve Grossman

6) What is Dr. John's real name?

John Brown
John Yancey
Mac Rebbenack
Aristotle LeCroix

7) Who was the jazz vocalese artist who wrote and performed the songs for the television show Schoolhouse Rock?

Mark Murphy
Jon Hendricks
Eddie Jefferson
Bob Dorough

8) What jazz chanteuse is married to Elvis Costello?

Diana Krall
Jane Monheit
Patricia Barber
Lorraine Feather

9) What avant garde jazz musician claimed to hail from the planet Saturn?

Roscoe Mitchell
Sun Ra
Cecil Taylor
Albert Ayler

10) What jazz musician is the 1st recipient of MTV's Best Music Video award?

The Yellowjackets
Jaco Pastorius
Weather Report
Herbie Hancock

11) Who were the jazz musicians in the short-lived quartet called Circle?

Chick Corea, Dave Holland, Anthony Braxton, Barry Altshcul
Chick Corea, Miroslav Vitous, Roy Haynes, Michael Brecker
David Murray, Lester Bowie, Henry Grimes, Roy Haynes
Charles Lloyd, Keith Jarrett, Jack DeJohnette, Steve Swallow

12) John Zorn, Dave Douglas, Joey Baron, and Greg Cohen are better known as what group name?

The Thieves Quartet
The Tzadik Quartet
Kristallnacht
Masada

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