Quiz Monkey
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Quiz Monkey |
See also Signature Tunes.
| Backed on his early recordings (1925–8) by the Hot Five and the Hot Seven (in reality formed from studio session musicians); later (from 1947) by the All Stars; appeared on the cover of Time magazine 1949; biggest hit Hello Dolly (1964) |
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Louis Armstrong |
| Took over Bennie Moten's band after his death |
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Count Basie |
| US cornet player, backed on his early recordings by The Wolverines; ravaged by alcoholism, died 1931 in mysterious circumstances (officially of pneumonia) aged 28 |
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Bix Beiderbecke |
| Biggest hit Take Five; also wrote Blue Rondo a la Turk |
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Dave Brubeck |
| 'The King of Hi Di Ho' |
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Cab Calloway |
| Scottish jazz trombonist, famous for his appearances in The Goon Show, The Black & White Minstrel Show, Play School and Play Away; died in 1997 aged 82 |
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George Chisholm |
| Saxophonist associated with Miles Davis and Thelonius Monk, also noted for solo albums including Blue Train (1957), My Favorite Things (1961), A Love Supreme (1965); died of cancer (possibly linked to his heroin addiction) 1967, aged 40 |
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John Coltrane |
| Birth of the Cool (recorded 1949–50, released 1956), Kind of Blue (1959), In a Silent Way (1969): seminal LPs by |
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Miles Davis |
| Sentimental Journey (by Les Brown and his Band of Renown, 1945) was the first big hit for (singer) |
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Doris Day |
| Soda Fountain Rag was the first composition, aged 14, of |
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Duke Ellington |
| St. Louis Blues (1914): composer |
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W. C. Handy |
| The Entertainer, Pineapple Rag, Maple Leaf Rag: composer |
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Scott Joplin |
| Formed his first band in 1941; coined the term 'progressive jazz' to describe his style |
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Stan Kenton |
| French jazz pianist, famous for his arrangements of the works of J. S. Bach – particularly that of the Air on the G String (from Orchestral Suite No. 3) used in the Hamlet adverts; died in 2019, aged 84 |
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Jacques Loussier |
| Round Midnight (one of the most often recorded jazz standards of all time): composer |
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Thelonius Monk |
| The Red Hot Peppers were the band of |
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Jelly Roll Morton |
| US pianist, composer and bandleader, real name Herman Poole Blount: born in Birmingham, Alabama, but (seriously) claimed to be an alien from Saturn, "on a mission to preach peace"; died in 1993, aged 79 |
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Sun Ra |
| Pianist and composer: a long–term collaborator of Duke Ellington, and the composer of his signature tune, Take the 'A' Train |
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Billy Strayhorn |
| Pinetops Smith was one of the first exponents of |
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Boogie–woogie |
| Style originated by Billy Eckstine or Dizzy Gillespie, played by Charlie ‘Bird' Parker and Thelonius Monk |
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Bop / Be–bop / Rebop |
| The first official million seller; first gold disc (Glenn Miller, 1941) |
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Chattanooga Choo Choo |
| New York club where Duke Ellington's band was resident in the late 1920s |
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Cotton Club |
| Group formed in the mid–1950s, by pianist Howard Silver and drummer Art Blakey, as a collective of contemporaries; became known as an incubator for young talent |
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Jazz Messengers |
| Formed in 1952: John Lewis (piano, composer), Milt Jackson (vibes), Percy Heath (bass), Kenny Clarke (drums) |
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Modern Jazz Quartet |
| Glenn Miller's wife's phone number (apocryphally) |
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Pennsylvania 6–5000 |
| Improvisational style of singing, using nonsense words and syllables; celebrated exponents include Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Mel Torme and Cab Calloway |
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Scat |
| The Chattanooga Choo Choo leaves on |
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