JAZZ QUESTIONS
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Play the Jazz Quiz with your friends and give yourself a great advantage by selecting your starting question from different Jazz Questions!
Play the Jazz Quiz with your friends and give yourself a great advantage by selecting your starting question from different Jazz Questions!
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After 1937, what songwriter spent the rest of his life in a wheelchair after he broke both his legs when he fell from a horse?
What former member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers took up the flugelhorn in 1968, maybe because it "Feels So Good"?
He died in 1965, but he and his daughter won the 1991 Grammy for Best Record anyway. Who is he?
Which of these jazz legends was known for playing guitar, rather than drums?
Which of these jazz legends was known for playing drums, rather than guitar?
In a Duke Ellington song written by arranger Billy Strayhorn, what train should you take all the way up to Harlem?
In 1970, who not only won a Tony Award for "Hello, Dolly!," but was named America's "Ambassador of Love" by Richard Nixon?
What scat-singing "First Lady of Song" had a three-octave range?
The son of Armenian immigrants, Charles Aznavour has been described as the "Frank Sinatra" of what country?
Canadian jazz chanteuse Diana Krall co-wrote songs with what husband and UK punk legend, which appear on her "The Girl in the Other Room" CD?
In what song does Louis Armstrong "I see skies of blue and clouds of white, the bright blessed day, the dark sacred night"?
Born in Wales, what singer's real last name was Woodward?
Although my radio appearances were on too late for the East Coast, they were on early enough to make me a huge star on the West Coast, as I discovered when I played the Palomar Ballroom in Los Angeles on August 21, 1935. Who am I?
Also performed by Marty Feldman and Peter Boyle in "Young Frankenstein," a version of what Irving Berlin song was the only hit for an Indonesian-born Dutch performer named Taco Ockerse?
Baroness Pannonica "Nica" de Koenigswarter was born Kathleen Annie Pannonica Rothschild, and because of her patronage of Thelonious Monk and Charlie Parker, she picked up what nickname?
It's not unusual, but Welsh singer Thomas John Woodward renamed himself after his boss compared him to a character in a book written by whom?
The Bobby McFerrin song "Don't Worry, Be Happy" was first featured in what Tom Cruise movie?
Nicknamed "Traps," the bad-tempered Buddy Rich is widely held to have been the greatest person ever to play what instrument?
Opened in 1919 as the largest hotel in the world, New York's Hotel Pennsylvania was so popular that somebody incorporated its phone number (736-5000) into a 1938 hit song. Who?
What trumpeter, who once had five albums in the Top 20 of the Billboard album charts simultaneously, was famous for his "Ameriachi" sound?
Outkast remixed John Coltrane's legendary sax version of what song about raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens, from "The Sound of Music"?
At last! A question about 1950s singers! What jazz, R&B and gospel singer was born Jamesetta Hawkins in Los Angeles?
Which of these isn't a radio/TV therapist of any kind, but is instead of a New Orleans musician known as the Night Tripper?
What crooner from Tacoma, Washington, introduced 14 songs nominated for Academy Awards, four of which won?
In three songs ("I Got Rhythm," "Nice Work If You Can Get It," and "I'm About to be a Mother"), what songwriter wonders, "who could ask for anything more"?
In 1997, who became the first jazz musician to win a Pulitzer, thanks to his jazz oratorio Blood on the Fields?
What is Quincy Jones' unusual middle name?
Despite being three months pregnant, Dolores Erickson appeared semi-nude and covered in cream on the cover of whose "Whipped Cream and Other Delights" album?
Mercy, mercy, mercy! Because of his voracious appetite as a child, Julian Adderley picked up a nickname. Twisted slightly, the nickname carried forward when he became a jazz saxophonist. What was it?
What Italian American crooner won his only Grammy for "Catch a Falling Star"?
What former member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers took up the flugelhorn in 1968, maybe because it "Feels So Good"?
He died in 1965, but he and his daughter won the 1991 Grammy for Best Record anyway. Who is he?
Which of these jazz legends was known for playing guitar, rather than drums?
Which of these jazz legends was known for playing drums, rather than guitar?
In a Duke Ellington song written by arranger Billy Strayhorn, what train should you take all the way up to Harlem?
In 1970, who not only won a Tony Award for "Hello, Dolly!," but was named America's "Ambassador of Love" by Richard Nixon?
What scat-singing "First Lady of Song" had a three-octave range?
The son of Armenian immigrants, Charles Aznavour has been described as the "Frank Sinatra" of what country?
Canadian jazz chanteuse Diana Krall co-wrote songs with what husband and UK punk legend, which appear on her "The Girl in the Other Room" CD?
In what song does Louis Armstrong "I see skies of blue and clouds of white, the bright blessed day, the dark sacred night"?
Born in Wales, what singer's real last name was Woodward?
Although my radio appearances were on too late for the East Coast, they were on early enough to make me a huge star on the West Coast, as I discovered when I played the Palomar Ballroom in Los Angeles on August 21, 1935. Who am I?
Also performed by Marty Feldman and Peter Boyle in "Young Frankenstein," a version of what Irving Berlin song was the only hit for an Indonesian-born Dutch performer named Taco Ockerse?
Baroness Pannonica "Nica" de Koenigswarter was born Kathleen Annie Pannonica Rothschild, and because of her patronage of Thelonious Monk and Charlie Parker, she picked up what nickname?
It's not unusual, but Welsh singer Thomas John Woodward renamed himself after his boss compared him to a character in a book written by whom?
The Bobby McFerrin song "Don't Worry, Be Happy" was first featured in what Tom Cruise movie?
Nicknamed "Traps," the bad-tempered Buddy Rich is widely held to have been the greatest person ever to play what instrument?
Opened in 1919 as the largest hotel in the world, New York's Hotel Pennsylvania was so popular that somebody incorporated its phone number (736-5000) into a 1938 hit song. Who?
What trumpeter, who once had five albums in the Top 20 of the Billboard album charts simultaneously, was famous for his "Ameriachi" sound?
Outkast remixed John Coltrane's legendary sax version of what song about raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens, from "The Sound of Music"?
At last! A question about 1950s singers! What jazz, R&B and gospel singer was born Jamesetta Hawkins in Los Angeles?
Which of these isn't a radio/TV therapist of any kind, but is instead of a New Orleans musician known as the Night Tripper?
What crooner from Tacoma, Washington, introduced 14 songs nominated for Academy Awards, four of which won?
In three songs ("I Got Rhythm," "Nice Work If You Can Get It," and "I'm About to be a Mother"), what songwriter wonders, "who could ask for anything more"?
In 1997, who became the first jazz musician to win a Pulitzer, thanks to his jazz oratorio Blood on the Fields?
What is Quincy Jones' unusual middle name?
Despite being three months pregnant, Dolores Erickson appeared semi-nude and covered in cream on the cover of whose "Whipped Cream and Other Delights" album?
Mercy, mercy, mercy! Because of his voracious appetite as a child, Julian Adderley picked up a nickname. Twisted slightly, the nickname carried forward when he became a jazz saxophonist. What was it?
What Italian American crooner won his only Grammy for "Catch a Falling Star"?