What's your Jazz IQ?

December 2006

1) Which classic big band leader later became Benny Goodman's top arranger?

Jimmie Lunceford
Andy Kirk
Fletcher Henderson
Don Redman

2) Which vocalist was known as 'the ugly duckling' in Chick Webb's big band?

Billie Holiday
Ella Fitzgerald
Helen Merrill
Bessie Smith

3) In the first recording of 'Cottontail' by Duke Ellington, who was the featured soloist?

Ben Webster
Cootie Williams
Johnny Hodges
Paul Gonsalves

4) Mary Lou Williams got her start with which big band?

Benny Goodman
Dizzy Gillespie
Andy Kirk
Cab Calloway

5) The Claude Thornhill band had two sensational arrangers with Gerry Mulligan and whom?

Jay McShann
Bill Holman
Pete Rugolo
Gil Evans

6) This piano player started the style known as 'trumpet style piano'

Fats Waller
Eubie Blake
Willie 'the Lion' Smith
Earl Hines

7) Which trumpeter played regularly with saxophonist Frankie Traumbauer?

Hot Lips Page
Bix Beiderbecke
Freddie Keppard
Bunk Johnson

8) Which vocalist used to walk around the streets of Paris with a tiger on a leash?

Ether Waters
Bessie Smith
Josephine Baker
Ma Rainey

9) Which big band had a hit with 'Ain't She Sweet'?

Jimmie Lunceford
Andy Kirk
Fletcher Henderson
Chick Webb

10) Which guitarist was hired by Duke Ellington, only to be fired days later due to excessive tardiness?

Charlie Christian
Django Reinhardt
Eddie Condon
Freddie Green

11) Which trumpeter was in the Red Onion Jazz Babies alongside Sidney Bechet?

Freddie Keppard
Bunk Johnson
Louis Armstrong
Red Allen

12) Which trombonist never played with Louis Armstrong?

Jack Teagarden
Lucien Barbarin
Trummy Young
Kid Ory

I give up! Just let me see the answers!