What's your Jazz IQ?

Celebrating Sonny Rollins in July 2005

1) Sonny Rollins will be how old in 2005?

76
75
74
73

2) What instrument did Sonny play before switching to the sax?

Piano
Clarinet
Bass
Trumpet

3) Sonny made his recording debut with Babs Gonzales in what year?

1943
1944
1945
1946

4) Sonny started recording with Miles in what year?

1950
1951
1952
1953

5) Sonny's 1955 release on Fantasy Records was called?

Workout
Workin'
Worktime
Working

6) Sonny was born in?

Brooklyn
Manhattan
Statan Island
Great Neck

7) Sonny retired from performing between the years of ?

1957-1958
1955-1956
1957-1959
1959-1961

8) When Sonny reemerged after his semi-retirement, he featured which guitarist on his RCA release?

Django Reinhardt
Slim Gaillard
Jim Hall
Eddie Condon

9) During Sonny's two year retirement, he like to practice where?

New York Subway
Williamsburg Bridge
Grand Central Station
Outside of the Statue of Liberty

10) Sonny wrote a film score for what movie?

From Here to Eternity
Alfie
Tried and True
The Boys of Summer

11) In 1972 Sonny experimented with recording what instrument?

Soprano Sax
Alto Sax
Flute
Clarinet

12) Sonny was presented with a Grammy Award for lifetime achievement in what year?

1995
1999
2001
2004

I give up! Just let me see the answers!