What's your Jazz IQ?

May 2006

1) Kurt Elling penned words to which Weather Report song when he wrote 'Time to Say Goodbye'?

Black Market
Birdland
A Remark You Made
Mr. Gone

2) What is the name of Brad Mehldau's current drummer?

Jorge Rossy
Jeff Ballard
Brian Blade
Antonio Sanchez

3) Return to Forever had many different line-ups. Which musician was never a member of RTF?

Airto Moreira
Joe Farrell
Bill Connors
Billy Cobham

4) Among these musicians, which one did not have a famous musical father?

Joey DeFrancesco
John Pizzarelli
Norah Jones
Dave Holland

5) Herbie Hancock covered a tune by the alternative rock band, Nirvana. Which tune was it?

Smells Like Teen Spirit
All Apologies
Heart Shaped Box
Come As You Are

6) Which of these saxophonists were never a part of the Stan Kenton Orchestra?

Art Pepper
Lee Konitz
Vido Musso
Stan Getz

7) Which jazz bassist made an album that extensively features them on jazz cello?

Ray Brown
Stanley Clarke
John Pattitucci
Jimmy Blanton

8) John Abercrombie, Michael Brecker, Billy Cobham, and Don Grolnick were once in a band called...

Steps Ahead
The Mahavishnu Orchestra
Dreams
Old and New Dreams

9) At the end of his life, Miles Davis was scheduled to collaborate with which soul singer?

Al Green
Prince
Lenny Kravitz
Michael Jackson

10) Whom did Charlie Parker say was 'the best saxophonist I ever heard'?

Jimmy Dorsey
Johnny Hodges
Sonny Stitt
Lee Konitz

11) Which pianist learned to play the piano by placing his hands on a player piano with piano rolls that were recorded by duel (two) pianos?

Art Tatum
Willie 'the Lion' Smith
Luckey Roberts
Fats Walller

12) Which Euro-Jazz trumpeter was recently signed to Thirsty Ear Records?

Erik Truffaz
Nils Petter Molvaer
Enrico Rava
Tomasz Stanko

I give up! Just let me see the answers!