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1. Which USA city is considered the birthplace of jazz?
 
Atlanta
Memphis
New Orleans
St Louis
 
 
2. Which jazz performer was nicknamed Satchmo?
 
Louis Armstrong
Count Basie
Dizzy Gillespie
Charlie Mingus

The name was a shortened form of satchel-mouth
 
 
3. The Belgian musician Django Reinhardt is best remembered as a virtuoso on which instrument?
 
Clarinet
Guitar
Piano
Trumpet

He also played banjo and violin as a child
 
 
4. Who composed Rhapsody in Blue in 1924?
 
Irving Berlin
Cole Porter
George Gershwin
Fats Waller
 
 
5. Which musician was known as the King of Swing?
 
Tommy Dorsey
Duke Ellington
Benny Goodman
Paul Whiteman
 
 
6. Who opened a jazz club in Gerrard Street, Soho in 1959?
 
Robbie Scott
Roddy Scott
Ronnie Scott
Rudy Scott

It moved to Frith Street in 1965
 
 
7. Which British bandleader married Cleo Laine in 1958?
 
Acker Bilk
John Dankworth
Ted Heath
Humphrey Lyttleton
 
 
8. What was the title of the 1961 hit for Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen?
 
Midnight in Madrid
Midnight in Manchester
Midnight in Memphis
Midnight in Moscow
 
 
9. Which jazz drummer appeared on The Muppet Show in 1981, taking on Muppet drummer Animal in a drum battle?
 
Gene Krupa
Thelonius Monk
Buddy Rich
Ben Riley
 
 
10. What is the name of the style of singing in which the performer uses nonsense words and syllables?
 
Brat singing
Frat singing
Prat singing
Scat singing
 
 
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