Jazz: Standards, Swing & Bebop
From big-band swing to frantic bebop, can you keep up with the tempo of jazz's giants?
What this quiz asks
- 1The nickname “Satchmo” refers to which trumpeter?
- 21930s swing got crowds dancing to the sound of which ensemble?
- 3Ella Fitzgerald is famous for which improvised vocal technique?
- 4What was Charlie Parker's nickname?
- 5The Dave Brubeck Quartet's “Take Five” is famous for its unusual time signature of...
- 6Bebop, born in the 1940s, differs from swing mainly through...
- 7“So What” opens which 1959 landmark album by Miles Davis?
- 8Who composed the standard “'Round Midnight”?
- 9“Kind of Blue” is a milestone of which style, built on modes rather than fast chord changes?
- 101950s hard bop enriched bebop with influences from...
