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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

Parker is played by Forest Whitaker
 

 
6. What number track is mentioned in the song Chattanooga Choo Choo?
 
23
25
29
27

The song was performed by the Glenn Miller Orchestra in the 1941 film Sun Valley Serenade
 

 
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

Blue Rondo is in 9/8, Pick Up Sticks 6/4 and Unsquare Dance in 7/8
 

 
8. Who played the title role in the 1927 film The Jazz Singer?
 
Eddie Cantor
George Jessel
Al Jolson
Larry Parks

Cantor and Jessel both turned down the part; Parks played the title role in The Jolson Story in 1946
 

 
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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