Multiple Choice Questions

What city is considered to be the birthplace of jazz music?
  • London
  • New York
  • New Orleans
  • Los Angeles
What was the first ever jazz record to be released commercially?
  • The Ragtime Volunteers Are Off to War
  • Livery Stable Blues
  • King of the Bungaloos
  • Cleopatra Had a Jazz Band
Jazz is characterized by...
  • Blue notes
  • Improvisation
  • Polyrhythms
  • All of the above
Who is often named the 'Queen of Jazz'?
  • Aretha Franklin
  • Lena Horne
  • Billie Holiday
  • Ella Fitzgerald
What instrument did Miles Davis play?
  • Piano
  • Saxophone
  • Clarinet
  • Trumpet
Which trumpeter had to develop a new embouchure due to a mouth injury?
  • Chet Baker
  • Louis Armstrong
  • Miles Davis
  • Lee Morgan
Jazz pianist Spencer Williams inspired which dance craze?
  • Lindy Hop
  • Electric Slide
  • Charleston
  • Shimmy
What instrument did John Coltrane pick up before the end of his career?
  • Guitar
  • Flute
  • Drums
  • Violin
Which of these was the first jazz composition to win the Pulitzer Prize?
  • Blood on the Fields
  • Angel's Bone
  • Whispers out of Time
  • On the Transmigration of Souls
What type of jazz did clarinet player Benny Goodman popularize in the 1930s?
  • Bebop
  • Swing
  • Dixieland
  • Ragtime
Who joins Ella Fitzgerald on the track 'Cheek to Cheek'?
  • Duke Ellington
  • Dizzy Gillepsie
  • Nat King Cole
  • Louis Armstrong
'So What' is the opening track to which Miles Davis album?
  • Round About Midnight
  • Milestones
  • Birth of the Cool
  • Kind of Blue
Louis Armstrong popularized what kind of singing?
  • Scat
  • Swing
  • Blues
  • Bebop
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