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Part III: The Beat Goes On: Jazz Appreciation 101
Pop quiz! A few bits of jazz trivia
Stump your guests and get them hooked on
great tales of jazz by playing a few rounds of
jazz trivia. And if one of them does come up with
correct answers, then you’ve found a closet jazz
fanatic you can invite back again some time for
more discussion and debate on the great topics
of jazz. Take the quiz first yourself, and then
spring this pop quiz on your friends and see
whether they earn a passing grade (answers
given after all the questions):
1. Name the television program Charlie Parker
was watching when he died.
2. What is Dizzy Gillespie’s real name?
3. What’s the make and model of saxophone
played by John Coltrane?
4. Who is the jazz performer featured on the
cover of Time magazine in 1954?
5. What is the jazz label founded by a Jewish
refugee of Hitler-era Berlin, who first heard
live jazz at an ice skating rink?
6. What jazz musician authored the book
Beneath the Underdog?
7. Name the four jazz musicians born in 1899
(the same year aspirin was patented and
the paper clip was invented by Englishman
Robert Malcolm Taylor).
8. Name the great jazz guitarist who recorded
with the Beach Boys, Liberace, Dean
Martin, Elvis Presley, the Righteous
Brothers, and Frank Sinatra.
9. What’s the nickname of the first electric
guitar?
10. Whose nickname was “Jug”?
11. Whose nickname was “Bean”?
12. Whose nickname was “Bags”?
13. Whose nickname was “Klook”?
14. What is the all-time bestselling jazz album?
15. Who was the first jazz musician to win the
National Medal of Arts?
The answers:
1. Dorsey Brothers variety show
2. John Birks Gillespie
3. Selmer Mark VI
4. Dave Brubeck
5. Blue Note (Alfred Lion)
6. Charles Mingus
7. Paul Barbarin, Duke Ellington, Jean
Goldkette, Mezz Mezzrow
8. Barney Kessel
9. The Frying Pan (1931)
10. Gene Ammons
11. Coleman Hawkins
12. Milt Jackson
13. Kenny Clarke
14. Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue (more than five
million)
15. Dizzy Gillespie (1989)