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Blues and Jazz History 3

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who was Scott Joplin’s first music teacher?

a)

Julius Weiss

b)

Richard Wagner

c)

Franz Liszt

d)

Arthur Rubinstein

2.

As a teenager, Duke Ellington spent his nights playing jazz and his days working as this:

a)

newspaper boy

b)

grocery clerk

c)

dishwasher

d)

piano tuner

3.

Where did Louis Armstrong really start learning and focusing on playing the cornet?

a)

conservatory

b)

reform school

c)

the streets

d)

showboat

4.

Who was the first White bandleader to hire Black musicians?

a)

Glenn Miller

b)

Jimmy Dorsey

c)

Artie Shaw

d)

Benny Goodman

5.

Which jazz great played at President John F. Kennedy’s innagural celebration in 1965?

a)

Duke Ellington

b)

Glenn Miller

c)

Dizzy Gillespie

d)

Count Basie

6.

Which jazz singer had an emotional, almost raw voice and an amazing ear for music?

a)

Ella Fitzgerald

b)

Lena Horne

c)

Billie Holiday

d)

Sarah Vaughan

7.

Who taught Count Basie how to play the organ which led to Basie being an amazing jazz pianist?

a)

Fats Waller

b)

Duke Ellington

c)

Louis Armstrong

d)

Scott Joplin

8.

This musician spent 3 to 4 years in “The Woodshed” practicing the saxophone 15 hours a day.

a)

Miles Davis

b)

B.B. King

c)

Charlie Parker

d)

Scott Joplin

9.

Which cool musician is known as one of the greatest jazz innovators of all time?

a)

Dizzy Gillespie

b)

Duke Ellington

c)

B.B. King

d)

Miles Davis

10.

Who composed and performed Mood Indigo, Satin Doll and Sophisticated Lady?

a)

Louis Armstrong

b)

Duke Ellington

c)

Miles Davis

d)

Benny Goodman