Which jazz pianist recorded the 1957 album Brilliant Corners?
Answer
Thelonious Monk
80 Jazz Legends Trivia Questions with Answers
80 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
Which jazz pianist recorded the 1975 solo album The Köln Concert?
Answer
Keith Jarrett
Which jazz guitarist popularized playing with his thumb instead of a pick?
Answer
Wes Montgomery
Which 1956 Ella Fitzgerald album began her acclaimed Great American Songbook series?
Answer
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook
Which jazz singer was nicknamed the “First Lady of Song”?
Answer
Ella Fitzgerald
Which jazz trumpeter led the 1956 album Ella and Louis?
Answer
Louis Armstrong
Which album won the 1965 Grammy Award for Album of the Year?
Answer
Getz/Gilberto
What instrument made Lionel Hampton famous in jazz?
Answer
Vibraphone
Which jazz pianist composed the standard “'Round Midnight”?
Answer
Thelonious Monk
Which jazz drummer was nicknamed “Papa Jo”?
Answer
Jo Jones
Which jazz trumpeter composed “A Night in Tunisia”?
Answer
Dizzy Gillespie
Which jazz pianist composed the 1958 album title track “Misterioso”?
Answer
Thelonious Monk
Which jazz saxophonist recorded the famous 1939 version of “Body and Soul”?
Answer
Coleman Hawkins
What was Sun Ra’s first officially released album, issued in 1957?
Answer
Jazz by Sun Ra
Which 1973 Herbie Hancock album became the first jazz album certified platinum?
Answer
Head Hunters
Which jazz singer was widely known by the nickname “Lady Day”?
Answer
Billie Holiday
Which jazz singer recorded the 1958 album Ella in Rome: The Birthday Concert?
Answer
Ella Fitzgerald
What was Duke Ellington’s birth name?
Answer
Edward Kennedy Ellington
Which jazz pianist won the 1963 Grammy for Album of the Year for The First Family?
Answer
Vaughn Meader
Which jazz drummer led the 1963 album Out to Lunch!?
Answer
Eric Dolphy
Which jazz bassist composed “Goodbye Pork Pie Hat” as a tribute to Lester Young?
Answer
Charles Mingus
What was the birth name of jazz trumpeter Miles Davis?
Answer
Miles Dewey Davis III
What was the name of the jazz club where Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie developed bebop in New York?
Answer
Minton’s Playhouse
Which jazz trumpeter led the 1958 album Milestones?
Answer
Miles Davis
Which jazz musician played bass on Miles Davis’s 1959 album Kind of Blue?
Answer
Paul Chambers
In which year did jazz pianist Art Tatum die?
Answer
1956
Which jazz pianist led the 1963 album The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady?
Answer
Charles Mingus
Which jazz singer recorded the 1958 album Lady in Satin?
Answer
Billie Holiday
Which pianist was nicknamed the “High Priest of Bebop”?
Answer
Thelonious Monk
Which record label did Alfred Lion found in New York in 1939?
Answer
Blue Note Records
What song opens Dave Brubeck’s 1959 album Time Out?
Answer
Blue Rondo à la Turk
Which saxophonist recorded the 1956 jazz album Saxophone Colossus?
Answer
Sonny Rollins
Which jazz pianist recorded the 1958 album Everybody Digs Bill Evans?
Answer
Bill Evans
Which jazz guitarist co-founded the Hot Club de France Quintet with Stéphane Grappelli?
Answer
Django Reinhardt
Which jazz trumpeter recorded the 1954 album Chet Baker Sings?
Answer
Chet Baker
Which jazz standard did Billie Holiday co-write with Arthur Herzog Jr. in 1939?
Answer
God Bless the Child