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Jazz Music 0003
1.
Who became the first white bandleader to hire a full-time black female singer when he signed Billie Holliday in 1938?
Percy Faith
Woody Herman
Glenn Miller
Artie Shaw
2.
Jack Teagarden became known as a player of which instrument?
Clarinet
Piano
Trombone
Trumpet
3.
The clarinetist Acker Bilk was born in 1929 in which English county?
Cornwall
Devon
Dorset
Somerset
4.
What is the title of the jazz standard, inspired by a street in New Orleans, first recorded by Louis Armstrong in 1928?
Bay Street Blues
Bayou Street Blues
Basin Street Blues
Bourbon Street Blues
5.
The 1988 film Bird, directed by Clint Eastwood, is a biopic of which jazz saxophonist?
John Handy
Louis Jordan
Charlie Parker
Sonny Rollins
6.
What number track is mentioned in the song Chattanooga Choo Choo?
23
25
29
27
7.
Which piece by the Dave Brubeck quartet is in 5/4 time?
Blue Rondo a la Turk
Pick Up Sticks
Take Five
Unsquare Dance
8.
Who played the title role in the 1927 film The Jazz Singer?
Eddie Cantor
George Jessel
Al Jolson
Larry Parks
9.
Journey to the Urge Within was the 1986 debut album by which British jazz musician?
Mark Hewins
Tina May
Courtney Pine
Peter White
10.
Which New Orleans-born musician wrote Wolverine Bluea and Black Bottom Stomp?
Bix Beiderbecke
Buddy Bolden
Jelly Roll Morton
Joe 'King' Oliver
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