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ANSWERS FOR QUIZ #5 - JAZZ ON FILM
1. C) St. Louis Blues
2. C) Ivie Anderson who is in the Marx Brothers' movie A Day At The Races.
3. C) Jimmie Lunceford
4. B) Honey In The Honeycomb. The other three songs are all sung by Ethel Waters.
5. D) Marlowe Morris
6. A) Coleman Hawkins
7. A) Jack Teagarden. Kid Ory was the trombonist.
8. B) Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans?
9. C) The Fabulous Dorseys
10. D) Steve Allen
11. B) Ella Fitzgerald
12. B) Red Nichols
13. D) The Chico Hamilton Quintet
14. B) The Girl From Ipanema, performed by Stan Getz, Astrud Gilberto and Gary Burton.
15. B) Dick Gregory
16. A) Giant Steps
17. C) Warren Vache
18. D) Miles Davis
19. B) Jelly Roll Morton
20. C) Benny Golson
ANSWERS FOR QUIZ #4 - A JAZZ POTPOURRI
1. B) Six Saxophones
2. D) The Six Jolly Jesters
3. D) Ben Pollack
4. C) Ozzie Nelson
5. C) Wally Rose
6. A) Andy Kirk
7. B) Charlie Barnet
8. C) Jimmy Yancey
9. C) Brew Moore. He also recorded "More Brew" that day.
10. D) Stan Kenton
11. A) Red Callender
12. C) Phineas Newborn
13. B) Hank Mobley
14. C) Michel Legrand
15. B) Bobby Hutcherson
16. D) Marcus Miller
17. B) Earl Klugh
18. D) Sting
19. D) George Cables
20. C) Rebecca Kilgore
ANSWERS FOR QUIZ #3 - THE SINGERS
1. D) Gene Greene “The Ragtime King” who scatted on “King Of The Bungalows” back in 1911.
2. C) Helen Humes
3. A) On The Sunny Side Of The Street
4. B) Ella Fitzgerald
5. A) Max Miller
6. C) Bee Palmer who recorded “Singing The Blues,” based partly on solos by Bix Beiderbecke and Frank
Trumbauer, in 1929. That recording went unreleased for over 50 years and had no influence on the
innovative work of Eddie Jefferson who first emerged in the late 1940s.
7. B) Sarah Vaughan
8. D) My Sweet Hunk O' Trash
9. D) Connie Boswell
10. C) Ruth Etting
11. D) Dakota Staton
12. C) Carol Sloane
13. C) Secretary
14. B) Piano
15. A) Teresa Brewer
16. C) Maxine Sullivan
17. C) Kurt Elling
18. D) 1991. Apreslude, put out by the Splasch label, is a real obscurity. The set is comprised mostly of
duets with guitarist Antonio Scarano, recorded in Gambarini's native Italy, 15 years before her second
album.
19. C) Sophie Millman
20. B) Betty Carter
ANSWERS FOR QUIZ #2 - THE TRUMPETERS
1. A) Henry Busse
2. C) Frank Guarente
3. D) Slide Whistle
4. B) Andy Secrest
5. D) It was an instrumental
6. D) Willis “Gator” Jackson who was with Cootie Williams in 1948.
7. A) The Lady In Red
8. C) Claude Thornhill
9. B) Duke Ellington
10. D) Red Rodney
11. C) Billie Rogers, in 1942
12. A) Dizzy Gillespie
13. C) Bobby Bradford
14. B) Dewey Johnson
15. B) Jack Sheldon who starred on 1966's Run Buddy Run.
16. B) George Barnes
17. D) Lester Bowie
18. B) Red Rodney
19. A) Dave Douglas
20. A) Bunny Berigan
ANSWERS FOR QUIZ #1 - A GRAB BAG
1. B) The Original Dixieland Jazz Band
2. C) Paul Whiteman
3. C) 1938
4. A) King Oliver
5. A) Fats Waller
6. B) Lionel Hampton
7. A) The Trouble With Cinderella
8. D) Shorty Rogers
9. C) Bill Evans
10. C) Hoagy Carmichael
11. B) 27
12. C) Stan Kenton
13. C) Wes Montgomery, who was in the John Coltrane Sextet along with Eric Dolphy, McCoy Tyner, Reggie
Workman and Elvin Jones. Wes soon quit the group, saying that he had gotten tired of “standing in line for
solos.”
14. D) Joanne Brackeen
15. C) Joe Farrell
16. D) Paul Desmond
17. D) David Sanborn
18. C) Albert Ayler
19. B) Gary Burton
20. D) Al Hirt