2018-2019 Semester ONE Jazz Quiz

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

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

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

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

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

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

What was Paul Whiteman's main instrument?

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

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

When was "Maple Leaf Rag" composed?

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

How many chords are there in a basic Blues progression?

What instrument was Buddy Bolden known for playing?

Which award was Glenn Miller the first to receive?

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

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

"Anthropology" is based on which popular chord progression?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Who wrote "Maple Leaf Rag"?

What new style of playing technique did Django Reinhardt invent?

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

What instrument was Kid Ory best known for playing?

Which religion did Dizzy Gillespie follow beginning in 1968?

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

What is unique about Ornette Coleman's violin playing?

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

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

What was Buddy Bolden's main physical ailment?

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

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

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

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

How did Django Reinhardt lose two fingers?

What was the FIRST published piece of Jazz Music?

What ethnicity did Django Reinhardt consider to be his heritage?

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

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

What was Benny Goodman's nickname?

What was Benny Goodman's main instrument?

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

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

Who wrote "Sing, Sing, Sing"?

What was Paul Whiteman's nickname?

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

Benny Golson is know for playing which style of jazz?

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

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

What instrument was Django Reinhardt known for playing?

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

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

What was Scott Joplin's nickname?

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

WC Handy's father believed that musical instruments were:

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

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

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

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

What was WC Handy's main instrument?

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

What style of Jazz is Ornette Coleman credited with creating?

Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker are credited with inventing what?

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

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

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

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

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

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