Skip to main content

Jazz

1 [45] ________ recorded with the New Orleans Rhythm Kings in an early mixed-race collaboration, then in 1926 formed his Red Hot Peppers.

2 What role did Jazz play in the movie One, Two, Three...?

3 What role did Michalis Topkaras play in the telemovie Jazz?

4 The cornetist ________ is often mentioned as "the first man of jazz." He played in New Orleans around the year 1900.

5 There was a larger market for jazzy dance music played by white orchestras, such as Jean Goldkette's orchestra and ________'s orchestra.

6 [42][43] However, the main centre developing the new "Hot Jazz" was ________, where King Oliver joined Bill Johnson.

7 Who played Man the telemovie Jazz?

8 The quintet ________, fronted by Blakey and featuring pianist Horace Silver and trumpeter Clifford Brown, were leaders in the hard bop movement along with Davis.

9 Early blues was commonly structured around a repetitive call-and-response pattern, a common element in the ________ oral tradition.

10 Which of the following titles did Jazz have?

đź’ˇ Interesting Facts

  • in 1965, Czech jazz singer Vlasta PrĹŻchová invited Louis Armstrong for dinner?
  • legendary producer and arranger Quincy Jones produced jazz vocalist Helen Merrill's self-titled debut album when he was just 21 years old?
  • the jazz album To the Stars by Chick Corea was inspired by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard's science fiction novel of the same name?
  • for the jazz album The Meeting, Joseph Jarman returned to the Art Ensemble of Chicago after leaving in 1993 to open a Buddhist dojo in Brooklyn, New York?
  • during his imprisonment in the Theresienstadt concentration camp, Fritz Weiss continued his collaboration with jazz orchestras outside of the camp?
  • The Cannonball Adderley Quintet in San Francisco, a 1959 album by jazz band The Cannonball Adderley Quintet, reached the bestseller charts with 50,000 copies sold by May 1960?
  • a Belgian, Robert Goffin, was the first person to write a serious book on the indigenous American art-form, jazz?
  • the jazz singer Eva Olmerová was persecuted by the State Security service of the Czechoslovak communist regime?
  • the music of the Pointer Sisters combined jazz, scat and be-bop?
  • the Soviet ideologue and foreign minister Dmitri Shepilov denounced jazz and rock music as "wild cave-men orgies" and the "explosion of basic instincts and sexual urges"?
  • the early musical influences of Austrian jazz-fusion guitarist Alex Machacek, who has been praised by legends like John McLaughlin, included heavy metal bands like Iron Maiden and KISS?
  • the Squirrel Nut Zippers were influenced by the energetic sounds of 1920s hot jazz?
  • the Melbourne Jazz Co-operative runs three jazz concerts a week and is the most active jazz presenter organisation in Australia?
  • the Original Dixieland Jass Band's "Livery Stable Blues" (1917) was the first released jazz recording?
  • the Dunbar Hotel was the heart of LA's jazz scene with visits by Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, and Louis Armstrong?
  • Nica de Koenigswarter of the Rothschild family was known as the "bebop baroness" for her patronage of jazz musicians, including Thelonious Monk and Charlie Parker?
  • the word jazz was originally a California baseball slang term and was first applied to a style of music in Chicago?
  • hard bop jazz drummer Roy Brooks, who played with Horace Silver and Max Roach, was sentenced to four years in prison for assault at age 62?
  • jazz bassist Esperanza Spalding became one of the youngest faculty members in the history of Berklee College of Music almost immediately after her graduation?
  • English jazz musician Eddie Freeman's custom four-string guitar was adopted for manufacture by Selmer?
  • Dave Burrell's operatic live jazz album Windward Passages was his response to land development in Hawaii during the late 1970's?
  • Czech jazz double-bassist LudÄ›k Hulan co-founded Studio 5, one of the most important modern jazz ensembles in Czechoslovakia?
  • Dave Brubeck's The Real Ambassadors was largely based on the goodwill tours of Louis Armstrong and other jazz musicians on behalf of the U.S. State Department during the Cold War?
  • jazz saxophonist John Coltrane's song "Ogunde" is based on the Afro-Brazilian folk song "Ogunde Varere", which translates to "Prayer of the Gods"?
  • jazz trombonist Kai Winding's song "Time Is on My Side" became a U.S. top ten hit for The Rolling Stones in 1964, and has been covered by Michael Bolton, Wilson Pickett, Paul Revere & the Raiders and Vanessa Carlton, among others as recently as 2005?
  • Centipede were an English jazz/progressive rock band with more than 50 members?
  • Doc Cheatham (1905–1997) has been described as the only jazz musician to create his best work after the age of 70?
  • vibraphonist Karel VelebnĂ˝ is considered one of the founders of modern Czech jazz?
  • Louisiana Creole jazz clarinetist Louis Cottrell, Jr. played Carnegie Hall in 1974?
  • jazz pianist and vocalist Dena DeRose only considered singing professionally after carpal tunnel syndrome and arthritis forced her to give up playing the piano?
  • jazz singer Ilse Huizinga is known in the Netherlands as the First Lady of Jazz?
  • African-American composer Wendell Logan described jazz as "our classical music", saying it "belongs here just as much as Americans belong on this soil"?
    • Previous Quiz Next Quiz

    Related Quizzes

    13th century

    #Centuries #13th century #2nd millennium

    14th century

    #2nd millennium #14th century #Centuries

    16th century

    #2nd millennium #16th century #Centuries

    17th century

    #Centuries #17th century #2nd millennium

    18th century

    #2nd millennium #18th century #Centuries

    1904

    #1904

    1906

    #1906

    1911

    #1911