What's your Jazz IQ?

January 2008

1) Who's last recorded album was entitled 'Pilgrimage'?

Frank Morgan
Oscar Peterson
Michael Brecker
Max Roach

2) Which jazz pianist won a Latin Grammy this year (2007)?

Michel Camilo
Gonzalo Rubalcaba
Chick Corea
Horace Silver

3) Which legendary conguero passed away this year?

Poncho Sanchez
Carlos 'Patato' Valdes
Candido
Ray Barretto

4) Which drummer had Sonny Rollins and Clifford Brown in his group at one time?

Max Roach
Roy Haynes
Kenny Clarke
Art Blakey

5) Which jazz pianist scolded the crowd at the Umbria Jazz Festival in 2007?

Brad Mehldau
Ahmad Jamal
Keith Jarrett
Herbie Hancock

6) Which jazz pianist did Diana Krall want to be like while growing up?

Fats Waller
Oscar Peterson
Bill Evans
Nat King Cole

7) Which artist released an album inspired by Joni Mitchell in 2007?

Pat Metheny
Stanley Clarke
Elvis Costello
Herbie Hancock

8) Which salsa singer had a biopic motion picture debut this year (2007)?

Ruben Blades
Hector Lavoe
Cheo Feliciano
Celia Cruz

9) Joe Zawinul's 'Birdland' was actually a dedication to whom?

Charlie Parker
Duke Ellington
Cannonball Adderley
Miles Davis

10) Which classic fusion group is going on tour in the Summer of 2008?

The Mahavishnu Orchestra
Oregon
Return to Forever
Larry Coryell and the Eleventh House

11) Which jazz trumpeter wrote a piece dedicated to the victims of Virginia Tech?

Tom Harrell
Terence Blanchard
Nicholas Payton
Randy Brecker

12) Which jazz trumpeter used elements of rap and hip hop in his 2007 release 'From the Plantation to the Penitentiary'?

Russell Gunn
Wynton Marsalis
Christian Scott
Nils Petter Molvaer

I give up! Just let me see the answers!