What's your Jazz IQ?

January 2002

1) Who made a remarkable comeback after brain surgery to correct an aneurysm causing him to lose his memory and forget how to play the guitar?

Tal Farlow
Jim Hall
Pat Martino
John Scofield

2) What excellent trumpet playing jokester appeared nightly on the Merv Griffin Show, starred in the short-lived TV series "Run Buddy Run," and also sang the jazzy vocals to the children's Schoolhouse Rock video "Conjunction Junction?"

Jon Faddis
Lester Bowie
Jack Sheldon
Don Sickler

3) In what year did Tito Puente cut his 100th album?

1987
1979
1983
1992

4) What legendary, yet underrated baritone, was brought back into popularity with Clint Eastwood's film "The Bridges of Madison County?"

Johnny Hartman
Joe Williams
Billy Eckstine
Cab Calloway

5) Who began the "Jazz Ahead" series at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, which is now a featured program at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts?

Sarah Vaughn
Carmen McRae
Betty Carter
Ella Fitzgerald

6) Who initiated the Lighthouse All-Stars in 1949, playing nightly at the infamous Lighthouse Jazz Club in Hermosa Beach, California?

Bud Shank
Howard Rumsey
Max Roach
Shelly Manne

7) Who was considered a child prodigy, soloing in the first movement of a Mozart piano concerto with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at age 11?

Bill Evans
Horace Silver
Dave Brubeck
Herbie Hancock

8) Which of the following jazz artists was a twin?

Gene Krupa
Zoot Sims
Art Farmer
Clifford Brown

9) What saxman worked as a studio musician and sideman for almost 20 years before releasing his first album as a leader at age 38?

Michael Brecker
Bob Mintzer
David Sanborn
Steve Coleman

10) Who wrote the jazz standard, "Soul Eyes?"

Lester Young
Sonny Rollins
Gil Evans
Mal Waldron

11) Who recorded the essential album "Straight Life" in 1970 with an all-star group including Joe Henderson, Herbie Hancock, George Benson, Ron Carter and Jack DeJohnette?

Archie Shepp
Miles Davis
Freddie Hubbard
Ornette Coleman

12) Who emerged on the Pacific Jazz album "Finger Pickin'" in 1957 with brothers Buddy on vibes and Monk on bass?

Wes Montgomery
Les Paul
Ralph Towner
Freddie Green

I give up! Just let me see the answers!