JAZZQUIZ
for
November
The Answers
A November Mixed Bag
For our quiz this month we gave you a mixture of fifteen jazz-related questions. How did you get on? Don't forget to check your score.
Give yourself an extra point if you were able to name this vocalist
Mark Murphy
Your Score - Give yourself a point for each answer you got right
15+ correct: Turkey Trot
10 - 14 correct: Cakewalk
6 - 9 correct: Tranky Doo
3 - 5 correct: Funky Chicken
1 - 2 correct: Black Bottom
THE ANSWERS
1. Who wrote the song Where Or When that first featured in the 1937 show Babes In Arms?
Answer: Rodgers and Hart
2. In which neighbourhood of New York City was The Cotton Club first located?
Answer: Harlem
3. Whose concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City on January 16, 1938, is described by critic Bruce Eder as "the single most important jazz or popular music concert in history: jazz's 'coming out' party to the world of 'respectable' music."/
Answer: Benny Goodman and his Orchestra
4. What is Adrian Cox's main instrument?
Answer: The clarinet
5. Which American guitarist has made three gold albums, has won 20 Grammy Awards and is the only person to have won Grammys in 10 categories?
Answer: Pat Metheny
6. Which UK trombonist and bandleader was mainly responsible for arranging the first UK tours of blues musicians Big Bill Broonzy, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee and Muddy Waters in the late 1950s and early 1960s?
Answer: Chris Barber
7. Dizzy Gillespie wrote the standard A Night In Tunisia. Where is Tunisia?
Answer: North Africa
8. Why does Miss Otis regret she's unable to lunch today?
Answer: According to Cole Porter's song, Miss Otis, a polite society lady, shot her unfaithful lover and was subsequently lynched by a mob.
9. What tune did composer Bernie Miller write that became a jazz standard popularised by the Gerry Mulligan Quartet?
Answer: Bernie's Tune
10. Who composed the tune Misty featured in Clint Eastwood’s 1971 film “Play Misty For Me” ?
Answer: Errol Garner
11. Which UK vocalist has co-written and recorded multiple songs with double Grammy-winning pianist/composer Alan Broadbent?
Answer: Georgia Mancio
12. What was New Orleans drummer 'Baby' Dodds actual first name ?
Answer: Warren
13. In 2024, saxophonist Sam Braysher released an album celebrating the music of which stage composer whose initials are K.W. His tunes included That's Him (the title of the album); and The Right Guy For Me. Who was the composer.?
Answer: Kurt Weill
14. Who directed the 1988 movie Bird, the biographical film about Charlie Parker?
Answer: Clint Eastwood
15. According to the song, A Nightingale Sang ............ where?
Answer: In Berkeley Square