What's your Jazz IQ?

August 2007

1) Benny Carter lived to what age?

95
96
94
97

2) Who was 'Mr. Five by Five'?

Oscar Peterson
Ray Brown
Art Tatum
Jimmy Rushing

3) Which jazz pianist had the nickname 'God'?

Oscar Peterson
Bill Evans
Art Tatum
Bud Powell

4) The Oscar Peterson Trio included one member who wasn't of American descent. Which member?

Ray Brown
Oscar Peterson
Herb Ellis
Ed Thigpen

5) Which Count Basie song was frequently used on The Gong Show?

Jumpin' at the Woodside
One O'Clock Jump
April in Paris
Flight of the Foo Birds

6) Who was the band leader of the Savoy Ballroom?

Andy Kirk
Jimmy Lunceford
Chick Webb
Lucky Millinder

7) Which member of the Count Basie Band never had a nickname?

Lester Young
Freddie Green
Jimmy Rushing
Harry Edison

8) Which tenorman was known as 'The Brute'?

Don Byas
Ben Webster
Sonny Stitt
Illinois Jacquet

9) The name Bill Evans is synonymous with jazz. One Bill Evans was a pianist, the other a saxman. There is one other Bill Evans that changed his name. What did he change it to?

Abdullah Ibrahim
Idris Muhammed
Abdullah Buhaina
Yusef Lateef

10) Which pianist was Ben Webster's roommate for awhile?

Herbie Hancock
Joe Zawinul
Billy Taylor
Bud Powell

11) Which musician was not featured on Oliver Nelson's 'Blues and the Abstract Truth'?

Bill Evans
Eric Dolphy
Kenny Dorham
Roy Haynes

12) Who was Sonny Blount?

Sonny Rollins
Sonny Stitt
Sun Ra
Pharoah Sanders

I give up! Just let me see the answers!