JAZZQUIZ
for
September
The Answers
Mothers and Fathers
For our quiz this month we challenged you with fifteen questions concerning jazz mothers and fathers. How many did you work out?
Give yourself one extra point if you were able to identify the name of the song from which these lines are taken:
My mama done told me
When I was in knee-pants
My mama done told me, "Son"
She said, "A woman'll sweet talk
And she'll give you the big eye
But when that sweet talking's done
A woman's a two-face
A worrisome thing to leave you to sing the blues
In the night"
(Blues In The Night - Johnny Merecer)
Your Score - Give yourself a point for each answer you got right
15+ correct: Made It, Ma! Top Of The World!
10 - 14 correct: A Boy's Best Friend Is His Mother
6 - 9 correct: Don't You Rock Me, Daddy-O
3 - 5 correct: Momma Told Me Not To Come
1 - 2 correct: She said "That Ain't The Way To Have Fun, Son"
THE ANSWERS
Mothers And Fathers
1. Which pianist, once called the first modern jazz pianist, had the nickname 'Fatha'?
Answer: Earl Hines
2. Whose Quintet released the album Song For My Father in 1965?
Answer: Horace Silver
3. What was Blues singer Willie Mae Thornton's nickname - Little Mama Thornton; Big Mama Thornton or Fat Mama Thornton?
Answer: Big Mama Thornton
4. In what year was the film It's Trad Dad released - 1959; 1960 or 1962?
Answer: 1962
5. According to the song, when have you "Gotta See Mama"?
Answer: "Every Night"
6. Which American composer and musician was known as the "Father of the Blues"?
Answer: W.C. Handy
7. Which Humphrey Lyttelton saxophonist was known to call people "Dad" whatever their age or gender - Bruce Turner; Jimmy Hastings or Kathy Stobart?
Answer: Bruce Turner
8. According to the song, where was the "Ding Dong Daddy" from?
Answer: Dumas
9. Dubbed 'Mother Of The Blues', which singer's life was documented on Netflix with the subtitle of her "Black Bottom" song and starred Viola Davis?
Answer: Ma Rainey
10. How does the Sidney Bechet standard "Si Tu Vois Ma Mère" translate into English - "So I listened to my Mother"; " Whenever I Hear My Mother's voice"; or "If You See My Mother"?
Answer: If You See My Mother
11. Ella Fitzgerald sang "My Heart Belongs to Daddy" with the Chick Webb Orchestra in 1939. Who wrote the song - Cole Porter; Richard Rodgers or Irving Berlin?
Answer: Cole Porter
12. The tune "One For Daddy-O" appeared on a 1958 album by the Cannonball Adderley Quintet. What was the title of the album - "Them Dirty Blues", Somethin' Else; or "Cannonball's Sharpshooters"?
Answer: Somethin' Else
13. With which band did Bix Beiderbecke first record his composition "Lazy Daddy"?
Answer: The Wolverines
14. Which 'free' jazz saxophonist who died in 2006 was the father of saxophonist Joshua Redman?
Answer: Dewey Redman
15. Trumpeter and bandleader Oscar Celestin who led the Tuxedo Brass Band in New Orleans for years, was better know by his nickname. What was it?
Answer: Papa Celestin