What's your Jazz IQ?

April 2007

1) Which artist had an album entitled 'Afro-Harping?'

Mary Lou Williams
Alice Coltrane
Dorothy Ashby
Marian McPartland

2) Terry Pollard was a member of the Woody Herman Orchestra. What role did she play?

Singer
Vibraphonist
PIanist
Trombonist

3) What instrument did Bob Scobey play?

Trumpet
Saxophone
Clarinet
Bass

4) What jazz icon is quoted as saying in response to the Bebop Revolution, 'They may flat their fifths, but we drink ours!'?

Eddie Lang
Hot Lips Page
Mezz Mezzrow
Eddie Condon

5) What instrument did Curtis Counce play?

Trumpet
Saxophone
Clarinet
Bass

6) Which one of these saxophonists were never part of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers?

Hank Mobley
Joe Henderson
Wayne Shorter
Jackie McLean

7) What was the title of one of Don Ellis' most popular compositions?

Cucumber Dill Soup
Blueberry Soup
Strawberry Soup
French Onion Soup

8) According to the interview on 'Oh Yeah,' who gave Mingus his first big-time job?

Louis Amstrong
Lionel Hampton
Charlie Parker
Lester Young

9) Which one of these musicians were never a part of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers?

Chuck Mangione
Keith Jarrett
Woody Shaw
Horace Silver

10) Which jazz icon decided to sport a mohawk haircut to gigs years before punk rock or Robert De Niro?

Lester Bowie
Albert Ayler
Lee Morgan
Sonny Rollins

11) In the early 1990s, which rising jazz star posed in an ad for Levis 501 blue jeans?

Wynton Marsalis
Roy Hargrove
Steve Coleman
Greg Osby

12) Who was the first artist on Blue Note Records to have a debut album that featured nothing but original compositions?

Herbie Hancock
Horace Silver
Freddie Hubbard
Andrew Hill

I give up! Just let me see the answers!