WorksheetsBlues and Jazz History 3
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Who was Scott Joplin’s first music teacher?
Julius Weiss
Richard Wagner
Franz Liszt
Arthur Rubinstein
As a teenager, Duke Ellington spent his nights playing jazz and his days working as this:
newspaper boy
grocery clerk
dishwasher
piano tuner
Where did Louis Armstrong really start learning and focusing on playing the cornet?
conservatory
reform school
the streets
showboat
Who was the first White bandleader to hire Black musicians?
Glenn Miller
Jimmy Dorsey
Artie Shaw
Benny Goodman
Which jazz great played at President John F. Kennedy’s innagural celebration in 1965?
Duke Ellington
Glenn Miller
Dizzy Gillespie
Count Basie
Which jazz singer had an emotional, almost raw voice and an amazing ear for music?
Ella Fitzgerald
Lena Horne
Billie Holiday
Sarah Vaughan
Who taught Count Basie how to play the organ which led to Basie being an amazing jazz pianist?
Fats Waller
Duke Ellington
Louis Armstrong
Scott Joplin
This musician spent 3 to 4 years in “The Woodshed” practicing the saxophone 15 hours a day.
Miles Davis
B.B. King
Charlie Parker
Scott Joplin
Which cool musician is known as one of the greatest jazz innovators of all time?
Dizzy Gillespie
Duke Ellington
B.B. King
Miles Davis
Who composed and performed Mood Indigo, Satin Doll and Sophisticated Lady?
Louis Armstrong
Duke Ellington
Miles Davis
Benny Goodman
