JAZZQUIZ
for
September
The Answers
Well, What Do You Know?!
In the quiz this month we gave you fifteen questions related to jazz. How many could you answer?
Give yourself one extra point if you were able to answer the question:
In which film did Marilyn Monroe sing the song Running Wild?
Answer: Some Like It Hot
Your Score - Give yourself a point for each answer you got right
15+ correct: Teacher's pet!.
10-14 correct: Well done. I can see signs of improvement.
7 - 9 correct: Have you been skipping homework again?
4 - 6 correct: Wake up at the back there!
1 - 3 correct: Write out 100 times 'I must concentrate in class'.
THE ANSWERS
1. What is the 'proper' first name of 'Chet' Baker ....: Chester, Chesney or Charles?
Answer: Chesney
2. 2024 is the 100th anniversary of which George Gershwin composition?
Answer: Rhapsody In Blue
3. What instrument did Johnny St. Cyr play in Louis Armstrong's Hot Five ..... Piano, Banjo or Clarinet?
Answer: Banjo
4. Complete this title from Dave Brubeck's 'Time Out' album: 'Blue Rondo a la ...... Waltz, Turk or Carte?
Answer: Turk
5. Which UK jazz club is located in Dorking, Surrey ..... The Watermill, The Verdict or Peggy's Skylight?
Answer: The Watermill.
6. Which big band included the word 'Thundering' in its name?
Answer: Woody Herman Thundering Herd
7. Which item of confectionary has been used as an affectionate name for the clarinet?
Answer: Licorice Stick.
8. Frank Sinatra and Count Basie had nicknames for each other. Basie called Sinatra 'Hank' and Frank called Basie ..... 'Kid', 'Sweets' or 'Splank'?
Answer: Splank
9. What do Thomas Waller, Theodore Navarro and Antoine Domino have in common?
Answer: They were all called 'Fats'.
10. Which Scottish pianist has released albums called 'Cairn', 'Forest Floor' and 'Turas' 'Turas' being the Gaelic word for 'Journey', and the feeling of travel and place.
Answer Fergus McCreadie
11. Name a boogie-woogie piano player by linking two Fresians with Bix Beiderbecke's home town?
Answer: Cow Cow Davenport
12. Pianist and composer Jacques Loussier is well known for his interpretations of which classical composer's music: Stravinsky, Bach or Vivaldi?
Answer: Bach
13. Who wrote the song 'Now You Has Jazz' for the film 'High Society' ..... Cole Porter, Johnny Mercer or Harold Arlen?
Answer: Cole Porter
14. The Jazz Couriers featured Ronnie Scott and Tubby Hayes on tenor sax. Which of these other instruments did Tubby play ....... Piano, Flute, Trumpet, Vibes, Washboard?
Answer: Vibes, Flute and Piano
15. On October 16th, 1957, Coleman Hawkins recorded a classic album with another tenor sax player. The original album title was, 'Coleman Hawkins Encounters .....' but it was better known in the UK as 'Blue Saxophones'. Who was the other tenor player that Coleman Hawkins 'encountered'?
Answer: Ben Webster