What's your Jazz IQ?

November 2007

1) As of this quiz (November 2007), who has marked their 50th Anniversary concert at Carnegie Hall with a return concert playing the same material?

Roy Haynes
Sonny Rollins
Jimmy Heath
Dave Brubeck

2) Who had a recording entitled 'Halloween Spooks'?

Lambert, Hendricks and Ross
Philly Joe Jones
Albert Ayler
Sun Ra

3) Who penned words to th Cannonball Adderley classic, 'Work Song?'

Eddie Jefferson
Oscar Brown, Jr.
Jon Hendricks
King Pleasure

4) Neal Hefti had a succesful hit with Count Basie entitled 'Plymouth Rock.' It was also known by which other title?

Cool Blue
Splanky
Midnite Blue
Flight of the Foo Birds

5) Joe Henderson's 'No Me Esqueca' is better known as...?

Serenity
Inner Urge
Shades of Jade
Recorda-Me

6) Dave Brubeck had two lessons with this classical composer before realizing they had irreconcilable compositional differences.

Darius Milhaud
Igor Stravinsky
Leonard Bernstein
Arnold Schoenberg

7) The fusion power trio known as the 'Trio of Doom' is comprised of John McLaughlin, Tony Williams, and whom?

Larry Young
Jan Hammer
Jaco Pastorius
Stanley Clarke

8) Which famous trio just recently finished recording an album of children's music?

Chick Corea Trio
The Bad Plus
Pat Metheny Trio
Medeski, Martin, Wood

9) Which bassist produced an album entitled 'Romero' inspired by the horror-film director and his work?

Victor Wooten
Robert Sabin
Fred Frith
Christian McBride

10) Who said 'Music is my life - at the expense of everything else in my life'?

Stan Getz
Charlie Parker
John Coltrane
Duke Ellington

11) Which pianist said 'I think he's stealing some of my stuff' after hearing Thelonious Monk for the first time?

Count Basie
Jelly Roll Morton
Duke Ellington
Cecil Taylor

12) In some of his earlier groups, Ornette Coleman used a pianist alongside himself, Don Cherry, Charlie Haden, and Billy Higgins. Who was the pianist?

Cecil Taylor
Paul Bley
Bill Evans
McCoy Tyner

I give up! Just let me see the answers!