What's your Jazz IQ?

May 2007

1) Buddy Bolden wrote and played something he called 'Quadrille' in the late 1800's in New Orleans. What is this tune called today?

Make Me a Pallet On Your Floor
Tiger Rag
When the Saints Go Marching In
Ballin the Jack

2) Jelly Roll Morton co-composed the tune 'WIld Man Blues' with what other talented musician?

W.C. Handy
Bunk Johnson
Louis Armstrong
Johnny Dodds

3) Nick La Rocca was the leader of which early jazz band?

The Original Dixieland Jazz Band
The New Orleans Rhythm Kings
The Preservation Hall Jazz Band
The Southern Feetwarmers

4) Natty Dominique was a creole dance band leader. What instrument did he play?

trombone
clarinet
trumpet
piano

5) This musician was a star clarinettist with Louis Armstrong's early groups, in Jelly Roll Morton's groups, and in his own right. Who is he?

Jimmy Noone
Edmond Hall
George Lewis
Johnny Dodds

6) On Bessie Smith's famous recording of 'The St. Louis Blues' who is playing trumpet in the background?

King Oliver
Louis Armstrong
Bunk Johnson
Freddie Keppard

7) Junie C. Cobb played dixieland clarinet early in his career, and then when he came back to the music scene in his later years, he changed over to what he called his first instrument. What instrument is that?

piano
saxophone
cornet
voice

8) The song 'Tishomingo Blues' is written for a county and city in which state?

Alabama
Louisiana
Mississippi
Georgia

9) Wingy Manone had a disability, but it didn't stop him from playing his heart out. What was his disability?

He was blind
He was deaf in one ear
He had a prosthetic arm
He had a prosthetic leg

10) What other clarinettist played alongside Sidney Bechet on many many recordings and even co-led a group together with him?

Mezz Mezzrow
Barney Bigard
George Lewis
Jimmy Noone

11) Who wrote the Louis Armstrong classic 'Struttin With Some Barbecue?'

Louis Armstrong
Kid Ory
Jelly Roll Morton
Lil Hardin Armstrong

12) This violinist was dubbed 'The Dark Angel of the Fiddle.'

Stuff Smith
Tricky Sam Nanton
Eddie South
Joe Venuti

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