What's your Jazz IQ?

September 2005

1) His first and middle name is the name of John F. Kennedy’s brother, Edward Kennedy.

Duke Ellington
Sweets Edison
Lion Smith
Fats Waller

2) He is known as the founding father of Free jazz.

John Coltrane
Cecil Taylor
Ornette Coleman
Rahsaan Roland Kirk

3) It can be said that he was the “George Gershwin of Brazil.”

Joao Gilberto
Charlie Byrd
Claus Ogerman
Antonio Carlos Jobim

4) He is the “Me” and author of the book “Dizzy, Duke, the Count and Me,” celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Monterey Jazz Festival.

John Lewis
Ralph Gleason
George Wein
Jimmy Lyons

5) All but one was involved in launching Jazz Fusion of the 1970s.

Joe Zawinul
Herbie Hancock
Steve Coleman
John McLaughlin

6) Which one is not a Thelonious Monk’s original composition?

‘Round about Midnight
Evidence
Criss Cross
So What

7) His first solo album was “Virtuoso.”

Joe Venuti
Joe Turner
Joe Sample
Joe Pass

8) He is not considered a Hammond luminary.

Rudy McDaniel
Bill Doggett
Jimmy Smith
Glen Hardman

9) Modal jazz is improvisation on a series of scales or modes rather than on . . .

Beats
Riffs
Chords
Vibratos

10) “A-tisket, a-tasket” was one of her huge recording hits.

Sarah Vaughan
Bill Holiday
Betty Carter
Ella Fizgerald

11) Musicians were restricted to what could fit on a 10” or 12” shellac record played at 78 speed until this was introduced.

8 -Track
45 rpm
2-sided Cassettes
33 1/3

12) She hosts NPR’s “Jazzset.”

Nancy Wilson
Carol Sloan
Keely Smith
Dee Dee Bridgewater

I give up! Just let me see the answers!