2018-2019 Semester ONE Jazz Quiz

What was the name of the weekly radio show featuring the Goodman Band in 1934?

What was the name of Jelly Roll Morton's band based in Chicago during the late 1920's?

Stan Kenton is known for creating what we now know as the _____.

Which is known as Glenn Miller's "Signature Song"?

What was Buddy Bolden's main physical ailment?

What instrument was Kid Ory best known for playing?

What was Paul Whiteman's main instrument?

What was Benny Goodman's nickname?

Stan Kenton was known for which self-styled genre of jazz?

What was Benny Goodman's main instrument?

Which of the following gave Glenn Miller's band the unique sound for which it became famous?

How many chords are there in a basic Blues progression?

How did Dizzy Gillespie's signature trumpet get "bent"?

Who was the soloist at the premiere of "Rhapsody in Blue"?

What style of Jazz is Ornette Coleman credited with creating?

"Anthropology" is based on which popular chord progression?

Which religion did Dizzy Gillespie follow beginning in 1968?

Which State adopted Swing Low, Sweet Chariot as its official State Gospel Song in 2011?

Who wrote "Maple Leaf Rag"?

Which award was Glenn Miller the first to receive?

Buddy Bolden's band was said to be the first to have ______ instruments play the blues.

How much money did WC Handy receive for the rights to "Memphis Blues"?

What style of music caused Paul Whiteman's popularity to fade?

What was Scott Joplin's nickname?

Which branch of the armed forces did Glenn Miller join in WWII?

What was Paul Whiteman's nickname?

What was the published name of Kid Ory's band that recorded in 1922?

Who wrote "Sing, Sing, Sing"?

What was the name of Jelly Roll Morton's band based in Chicago during the late 1920's?

When was "Maple Leaf Rag" composed?

Where did Buddy Bolden spend the last 24 years of his life?

What was the name of the French Violinist Django Reinhardt collaborated with starting in 1934?

In Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, where did the reference to the chariot originate?

How did Django Reinhardt lose two fingers?

The ballroom in NYC where Fletcher Henderson played for a decade, skyrocketing him to fame?

What was the FIRST published piece of Jazz Music?

What instrument was Django Reinhardt known for playing?

What is the name of the rhythmic innovation Buddy Bolden injected into jazz playing?

Who wrote all the arrangements on the landmark Stan Kenton "Cuban Fire" album?

What instrument was Buddy Bolden known for playing?

Where did Fletcher Henderson's nickname "smack" originate?

Kid Ory was one of the most influential ___________ of early jazz.

Which famous band made the 1906 (first) recording of "Maple Leaf Rag"?

In 1922, Kid Ory's band was the first African-American band from New Orleans to _____________.

Which new instrument did Kenton feature on his two Grammy Award winning albums?

For which album did Ornette Coleman recieve the Pulitzer Prize in Music in 2007?

What was the name of Jelly Roll Morton's band based in Chicago during the late 1920's?

What was Benny Goodman's greatest legacy to the musical world?

Hard Bop is a response to both a decline in bebop and the rise of _______?

Between which two musical eras did Fletcher Henderson help bridge the gap?

W.C. Handy was known as the "???" of the Blues.

Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker are credited with inventing what?

Stan Kenton won his first Grammy Award for his adaptation of which popular Broadway Musical?

Who is said to have "written" Swing Low, Sweet Chariot?

Which river figures prominenetly in the lyrics of Swing Low, Sweet Chariot?

What is unique about Ornette Coleman's violin playing?

WC Handy's father believed that musical instruments were:

From which contrasting style of music did Paul Whiteman draw from for many of his arrangements?

What ethnicity did Django Reinhardt consider to be his heritage?

What was the name of the Opera written by Scott Joplin?

Who played piano on Ornette Coleman's album "The Shape of Jazz to Come"?

In just four years, Glenn Miller scored how many No. 1 hits?

Jelly Roll Morton was very influential as jazz music's first ????????

The allegorical transportation used by slaves to escape slavery in Swing Low, Sweet Chariot????

One of Benny Golson's best known compositions "I Remember Clifford" is written for whom?

Who discovered Kid Ory and offered him a job (which he declined)?

What ended Fletcher Henderson's piano playing career in 1950?

Benny Golson led which group for 12 years with trumpeter Art Farmer?

What new style of playing technique did Django Reinhardt invent?

What was WC Handy's main instrument?

Benny Golson is know for playing which style of jazz?

What was one main influences on Ornette Coleman's sound on "The Shape of Jazz to Come"?

Benny Golson wrote "Killer Joe" while playing in whose band?

John Birks Gillespie is considered one of the greatest _____ & _____ in jazz history.

What Master's degree was Fletcher Henderson seeking when he attended graduate school?