What's your Jazz IQ?

July 2006

1) Madlib has a famous jazz trumpeter for an uncle. Who is he?

Donald Byrd
Jon Faddis
Don Cherry
Freddie Hubbard

2) Which Blue Note photographer used to take his albums to a local record shop in order to trade them for music on classical albums?

Reid Miles
Francis Wolff
William Claxton
Herman Leonard

3) Which jazz pianist wrote the groovy hit 'The Rumproller' for Lee Morgan?

Barry Harris
Herbie Hancock
Bobby Timmons
Andrew HIll

4) Besides being an ace jazz organist, Joey DeFrancesco is also an accomplished musician on what other instrument?

Saxophone
Trumpet
Trombone
Guitar

5) Which free jazz artist came up with the 'Harmolodic Theory'?

Ornette Coleman
Sun Ra
Pharoah Sanders
Archie Shepp

6) Which jazz saxophonist made a cameo appearance on the 70s TV show 'Kung Fu' playing alongside David Carradine on flute and Jose Feliciano on guitar?

Stanley Turrentine
Gato Barbieri
Cannonball Adderley
Lee Konitz

7) What 'standard' was Warne Marsh playing when he collapsed and died onstage at Donte's in 1987?

I Got it Bad and That Ain't Good
Alone Together
Out of Nowhere
Where or When

8) Which free jazz musician was not only a saxophone giant, but also a poet and playwright?

Archie Shepp
Pharoah Sanders
Albert Ayler
Ornette Coleman

9) Which of these 4 tenors did Sonny Rollins receive most his inspiration?

Ben Webster
Coleman Hawkins
Lester Young
Don Byas

10) Which major composer was scheduled to study privately with Maurice Ravel until Ravel realized how much more money they were making than he was, and then quickly refused to teach them?

Duke Ellington
Cole Porter
George Gershwin
Jelly Roll Morton

11) Which one of these vices were 'must haves' for Eric Dolphy?

heroin
playing chess
marijuana
candy

12) While in a relationship with Miles Davis, Betty Mabry had an affair with which rock star?

Mick Jagger
David Bowie
Jimi Hendrix
Eric Clapton

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