Jazz and Blues Quiz

Louis Armstrong played the ______.

• Saxophone

• Trumpet

• Piano

• Drums

The Thrill is Gone is one of ______'s biggest hit songs.

• Louis Armstrong

• Duke Ellington

• B.B. King

• Ella Fitzgerald

______ is known as the "King of Ragtime".

• Scott Joplin

• Duke Ellington

• Count Basie

• Benny Goodman

Who composed and performed the song It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) before playing the trumpet?

• Louis Armstrong

• Duke Ellington

• Count Basie

• Benny Goodman

B.B. King named each of his guitars ______.

• Lucille

• Bessie

• Daisy

• Minnie

Count Basie led his big band orchestra as he played the ______.

• Saxophone

• Trumpet

• Piano

• Drums

Bandleader Glenn Miller played the ______.

• Saxophone

• Trumpet

• Piano

• Drums

Ella Fitzgerald made her singing debut at a talent show at the ______.

• Apollo Theater

• Carnegie Hall

• Lincoln Center

• Radio City Music Hall

Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker and others created a new form of jazz called ______.

• Swing

• Bebop

• Fusion

• Latin

______ is where musicians "go" to practice for long hours until they get it right.

• The Studio

• The Stage

• The Club

• The Woodshed