Loaded Questions 1/2/23 - Jazz
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Happy Monday everyone! I’m sure everyone is excited to get back to work this week. We are starting the first free edition of 2023 with 11 questions about all that jazz. I’m looking forward to seeing what 2023 has in store for all of us, and if you’ve got new year resolutions about things you’d like to accomplish in the world of questions and answers, I hope LQ can help out in some way! We publish questions for all subscribers every Monday and Thursday, but if you want to get 55 more questions every week, subscribe to us for only $5 a month or $50 a year to get all the questions you could ever want. We asked 3000+ last year, and looking forward to doing it again. Have a great week, and stay strong! It’ll be a holiday break before you know it.
1. What jazz clarinetist's 1938 work "Nightmare" may have inspired the James Bond theme? He is also known for a cover of Cole Porter's "Begin the Beguine".
2. Somewhat ironically, "real book" is a synonym for what type of collection of jazz sheet music, featuring melody lines and chord changes?
3. What Count Basie jazz standard takes its name from a late radio hour when DJs might be able to play more adult songs?
4. “Mama may have, Papa may have” are lyrics from what 1942 song co-written by Billie Holiday whose title stems from an argument Billie had with her mother about money?
5. What action name is given to a style of bass accompaniment which features regular quarter note intervals?
6. I'll give you a crisp Abe Lincoln if you can tell me the name of the jazz club located in the Bowery in the 50s and 60s that attracted a number of avant-garde jazz musicians, including Thelonious Monk and Eric Dolphy?
7. In a noted 50s jazz quartet, Gerry Mulligan played sax, Chico Hamilton on drums, Chet Baker on trumpet, and who on piano?
8. What city is the birthpalce of jazz saxophonist Clifford Jordan? His first album was 1957's "Blowing in from" this city.
9. Astor Piazzolla is most associated with what instrument related to the concertina, popular with the Argentine tango?
10. What 1962 Latin jazz song by Tito Puente was famously covered by Santana in 1970?
11. "Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 2" is a 1938 composition by what jazz composer?
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1. What jazz clarinetist's 1938 work "Nightmare" may have inspired the James Bond theme? He is also known for a cover of Cole Porter's "Begin the Beguine".
Artie Shaw
2. Somewhat ironically, "real book" is a synonym for what type of collection of jazz sheet music, featuring melody lines and chord changes?
Fake book
3. What Count Basie jazz standard takes its name from a late radio hour when DJs might be able to play more adult songs?
One O'Clock Jump
4. “Mama may have, Papa may have” are lyrics from what 1942 song co-written by Billie Holiday whose title stems from an argument Billie had with her mother about money?
God Bless the Child
5. What action name is given to a style of bass accompaniment which features regular quarter note intervals?
Walking bass
6. I'll give you a crisp Abe Lincoln if you can tell me the name of the jazz club located in the Bowery in the 50s and 60s that attracted a number of avant-garde jazz musicians, including Thelonious Monk and Eric Dolphy?
Five Spot Cafe
7. In a noted 50s jazz quartet, Gerry Mulligan played sax, Chico Hamilton on drums, Chet Baker on trumpet, and who on piano?
Nobody (part of Gerry Mulligan's pianoless quartet - also Bob Whitlock on bass)
8. What city is the birthplace of jazz saxophonist Clifford Jordan? His first album was 1957's "Blowing in from" this city.
Chicago
9. Astor Piazzolla is most associated with what instrument related to the concertina, popular with the Argentine tango?
Bandoneon
10. What 1962 Latin jazz song by Tito Puente was famously covered by Santana in 1970?
Oye Como Va
11. "Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 2" is a 1938 composition by what jazz composer?
Dmitri Shostakovich (well, maybe not jazz composer)