JAZZ QUIZ

Answer the following questions and enter to win tickets to La Pataia Jazz Festival Punta del Este, Uruguay / January 4-7, 2007 Deadline: December 29, 2006

1. This jazz player's composition "Ornithology" is a play on words of his nickname, earned due to his fondness for eating chicken.

A: Chick Correa B: Charlie Parker C: Charlie Byrd D: Dizzy Gillespie

2. Bass player known for compositions with odd titles such as "The shoes of the fisherman's wife are some jive ass slippers"

A: Charles Mingus B: Jaco Pastorius C: Charlie Haden D: Percy Heath

3. A composition by the answer to number two named "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat" is a tribute to:

A: Sidney Bechet B: Ben Webster C: Lester Young D: Billy Eckstine

4. The Duke Ellington Band wowed the 1956 Newport Jazz Festival when this tenor saxophonist played 27 choruses for "Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue"

A: Sonny Rollins B: Harry Carney C: "Cannonball" Adderley D: Paul Gonsalves

5. Ella Fitzgerald was famous for a style of improvisational singing employing nonsense syllables known as:

A: adlib B: bebop C: scat D: jive talking

6. Innovative guitarist known for his work with Benny Goodman

A: Charlie Christian B: T-Bone Walker C: Tal Farlow D: Lonnie Johnson

7. This 1959 Miles Davis album is one of the most consistently biggest selling jazz recordings of all time

A: Miles Ahead B: Kind of Blue C: Sketches of Spain D: E.S.P.

8. New Orleans pianist who would often claim to have "invented" jazz

A: Fats Waller B: Jelly Roll Morton C: Professor Longhair D: James P. Johnsonand

9. Frank Sinatra first gained fame as the singer in the band of this man who was called the "sentimental gentleman of swing"

A: Glenn Miller B: Artie Shaw C: Woody Herman D: Tommy Dorsey

10. Composer of the tune "Round midnight" often perceived as exhibiting eccentric behavior

A: Bud Powell B: Sun Ra C: Theolonius Monk D: Stan Kenton

11. Signature song of Billie Holiday, which she sometimes claimed to have composed herself, was actually written by a radical high school teacher named Abel Meeropol

A: Strange Fruit B: God Bless the Child C: Gloomy Sunday D: Lover Man

12. The highest paid orchestra leader of the late 1920's and 1930's, he was sometimes called "the King of Jazz"

A: Bing Crosby B: King Oliver C: Paul Whiteman D: Duke Ellington

13. One of the only records by a jazz artist to reach the top ten after the arrival of the Beatles was this number 1 seller of a Broadway show tune by Louis Armstrong

A: Mame B: Cabaret C: I've Grown Accustomed to her Face D: Hello Dolly

14. A young Dizzy Gillespie played in the band of this 1930's showman famous for call and response choruses of "Hi-de-ho"

A: Fletcher Henderson B: Earl Hines C: Cab Calloway D: Spike Jones

15. Guitarist who had played with Miles Davis and combining loud volume, rock rhythms and Indian influences made his group the Mahavishnu Orchestra, one of the most successful "fusion" acts of the 1970's

A: Tony Williams B: John McLaughlin C: Pat Metheny D: Pharoah Sanders

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Print and deliver completed quiz to: Public Affairs Office, US Embassy, Lauro Muller 1776, Montevideo before December 29, 2006.