Exploring the World of Jazz Quiz - Test Your Knowledge

in 1965, Czech jazz singer Vlasta Průchová 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 Luděk 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 Velebný 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".

Exploring the World of 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?

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