Jazz

Question 1

The album that included “Take Five” and “Blue Rondo a la Turk” was the first jazz LP ever to go platinum. One member of the quartet that recorded it was Dave Brubeck (hence the Dave Brubeck Quartet); name any one of the other three members.

Answer 1

Paul Desmond, Eugene Wright, Joe Morello

Question 2

While he came to be known as a singer, Nat King Cole first came to prominence as a jazz artist performing what instrument?

Answer 2

Piano

Question 3

In what city did Herb Alpert attend a bullfight in 1961, first exposing him to the mariachi music that changed his career?

Answer 3

Alpert later named his band, the Tijuana Brass, in honor of that pivotal afternoon in Tijuana.

Question 4

Max Roach, Joe Morello, Elvin Jones, Cindy Blackman Santana, Billy Cobham, Tony Williams, Kenny Clarke, and Jack DeJohnette are all names of jazz musicians famous for their skill on what instrument?

Answer 4

Drums

Question 5

In the ’40s this “Yardbird” and sax genius formed a quintet with some okay players like Max Roach and Miles Davis.

Answer 5

Charlie Parker

Question 6

In one account, this song began as directions written out for composer Billy Strayhorn to Duke Ellington’s home in Harlem.

Answer 6

Take The A Train

Question 7

A trumpet with a bell that bent upward at a 45-degree angle (instead of pointing straight ahead)—the result of a fortuitous accident—became the preferred design and a trademark (among other distinctive trademarks) of what jazz legend?

Answer 7

Dizzy Gillespie

Question 8

In the early 1950s, trumpeter Miles Davis played and recorded arrangements in a novel style known as what type of jazz? The description was used in the title of a compilation album by Davis in 1957.

Answer 8

Cool Jazz