What's your Jazz IQ?

April 2006

1) Which of these contemporary jazz musicians DID NOT play with Miles Davis?

Bob Berg
Mike Stern
Branford Marsalis
Michael Brecker

2) Scandinavian jazz guitarist Terje Rypdal's new album Vossabrygg is inspired by which Miles Davis album?

Seven Steps to Heaven
Bitches Brew
Aura
Kind of Blue

3) Which bassist recorded with BOTH Bill Evans (piano) and Ornette Coleman?

Gary Peacock
Marc Johnson
Charlie Haden
Scott LaFaro

4) John Zorn's Naked City band featured which jazz guitarist?

Derek Bailey
Marc Ribot
Bill Frisell
Mike Stern

5) Which of these musicians DID NOT expatriate to Europe for a significant amount of time?

Dexter Gordon
Benny Bailey
Ben Webster
Lee Konitz

6) Which bassist did Pat Metheny originally want on his ECM debut Bright Size Life instead of Jaco Pastorius?

Dave Holland
Miroslav Vitous
Mark Egan
Stanley Clarke

7) Which of these jazz musicians were NOT part of the US Army at one point in their lives?

Lester Young
Bill Evans
Chet Baker
Charles Mingus

8) Which jazz vocalist was nick-named 'Sassy'?

Sarah Vaughan
Billie Holiday
Carmen McRae
Betty Carter

9) In Dennis Hopper's film The Hot Spot, Miles Davis recorded the soundtrack with which Blues legend?

Buddy Guy
B.B. King
Robert Cray
John Lee Hooker

10) Paquito D'Rivera and Arturo Sandoval were in a band together. What was the name of that band?

Sonando
Buena Vista Social Club
Irakere
Muy Caliente

11) Which member of the Rolling Stones is not only a jazz fanatic, but a recorded jazz musician as well?

Mick Jagger
Keith Richards
Ron Wood
Charlie Watts

12) Who is the only jazz musician to kiss President Richard Nixon four times, claiming they were merely giving him a kiss for each cheek?

Ella Fitzgerald
Dizzy Gillespie
Duke Ellington
Sarah Vaughan

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