Jazz and Blues

What this quiz asks

• Which US city is widely known as the birthplace of jazz?
• Besides his gravelly voice, Louis Armstrong was famous for playing which instrument?
• The jazz singer Billie Holiday was nicknamed Lady Day.
• Charlie Parker, nicknamed Bird, played which member of this instrument family?
• In jazz, what is scat singing?
• Which blues musician is the subject of the legend about selling his soul to the devil at a crossroads?
• Whose orchestra began a famous residency at Harlem's Cotton Club in 1927?
• Which Mississippi-born bluesman moved to Chicago in 1943 and pioneered electric blues on Chess Records?
• Select ALL of these musicians who were best known as jazz pianists.
• In what year did the Original Dixieland Jass Band make what is generally called the first jazz record?
• Order these musicians by year of birth, earliest first.
• Did Ella Fitzgerald get her big break by winning an amateur night at Harlem's Apollo Theater?
• The bandleader and composer W. C. Handy is often called the Father of the Blues.
• Which singer was crowned the Empress of the Blues in the 1920s?
• Which 1959 Miles Davis album featured John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley and Bill Evans?
• Select ALL of these blues musicians whose main instrument was the guitar.
• Which four-part suite did John Coltrane's quartet record in December 1964?
• Which Dave Brubeck Quartet tune, written by saxophonist Paul Desmond, is famous for its 5/4 time?
• Which trumpeter adopted an upturned bell after his trumpet was accidentally bent at a party?
• Which German-born jazz fan founded Blue Note Records in New York in 1939?