What's your Jazz IQ?

December 2007

1) What's the name of Wynton Marsalis' Holiday Jazz album?

Christmas in New Orleans
When My Heart Finds Christmas
Crescent City Christmas Card
Congo Square Christmas

2) Who composed 'The Christmas Song'?

Mel Torme
Nat 'King' Cole
Frank Sinatra
Irving Berlin

3) Who wrote the liner notes to Vince Guaraldi's 'A Charlie Brown Christmas'?

Nat Hentoff
Ralph J. Gleason
Leonard Feather
Charles Schultz

4) What year was Guaraldi's 'A Charlie Brown Christmas' originally issued?

1965
1964
1966
1967

5) Who had a Holiday Jazz album entitled 'Christmas Cookin'?

Grant Green
James Brown
Jimmy Smith
Wes Montgomery

6) Who had an album entitled 'Kwanzaa'?

Pharoah Sanders
Abdullah Ibrahim
Hugh Masakela
Archie Shepp

7) Which jazz saxophonist recorded a bebop version of Irving Berlin's 'White Christmas'?

Charlie Parker
Sonny Stitt
Sonny Rollins
Dexter Gordon

8) Which Holiday tune did Bill Evans choose to include on his album 'Trio 64'?

Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
White Christmas
Frosty the Snowman

9) Which bandleader re-worked and re-arranged Tchaikovsky's 'Nutcracker Suite' for big band?

Duke Ellington
Count Basie
Stan Kenton
Buddy Rich

10) Which Holiday tune did John Coltrane use as a modal vehicle for exploration and expression?

Carol of the Bells
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
Greensleeves
Silent Night

11) Which pianist had a hit with a tune called 'Santa Claus Blues'?

Fats Waller
Willie 'the Lion' Smith
Luckey Roberts
James P. Johnson

12) Who has a Holiday Jazz album entitled 'When My Heart Finds Christmas'?

Mel Torme
Ella Fitzgerald
Harry Connick Jr.
Frank Sinatra

I give up! Just let me see the answers!