What's your Jazz IQ?

June 2006

1) Which jazz trumpeter left for Europe to study with Nadia Boulanger for a small period of time?

Donald Byrd
Dizzy Gillespie
Rex Stewart
Lester Bowie

2) Which rock guitarist appeared on the last album by Weather Report?

Stevie Ray Vaughan
Eddie Van Halen
Randy Rhodes
Carlos Santana

3) Which jazz musician has a church in California named after them?

Pharoah Sanders
Sun Ra
John Coltrane
Duke Ellington

4) What tune did pianist Mal Waldron write based on lyrics written by Billie Holiday?

God Bless the Child
Left Alone
Gloomy Sunday
Strange Fruit

5) Jazz organist Shirley Scott was married to which jazz tenor titan?

Sonny Rollins
Hank Mobley
Stanley Turrentine
Houston Person

6) The Miles Davis album 'Sketches of Spain' was based around which classical composer?

Rodrigo
Debussy
Ravel
Rachmaninov

7) Which of these landmark jazz albums were NOT recorded in 1959?

Kind of Blue
Time Out
The Shape of Jazz to Come
A Love Supreme

8) Whose band at one time included Coleman Hawkins, Benny Carter, and Rex Stewart?

Fletcher Henderson
Andy Kirk
Bennie Moten
Jay McShann

9) In an attempt to kick his heroin addiction, which jazz saxophonist quit music and took a job as a labor worker for a brief period of time?

Charlie Parker
Art Pepper
Sonny Rollins
Stan Getz

10) Which jazz drummer played with the Tommy Dorsey Orch. and the Artie Shaw Orch. before creating his own big band?

Gene Krupa
Buddy Rich
Chick Webb
Shelley Manne

11) Which legendary film director is an acclaimed jazz clarinettist who gigs once a week in New York City with his own Dixieland group?

Clint Eastwood
Michael Moore
Steven Spielberg
Woody Allen

12) Who is quoted as saying 'You put a piece of music in front of me, and I'll give you a masterpiece!'?

Benny Goodman
Miles Davis
Stan Getz
Sidney Bechet

I give up! Just let me see the answers!