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Great names in the jazz world must always be remembered. Here are some trivia information on the classic musicians of jazz and blues courtesy of http://www.funtrivia.com.

1. Which jazz trumpeter was known for his ballooning cheeks and tilted bell on his instruments?

a. Louis Armstrong
b. Glenn Miller
c. Tommy Dorsey
d. Dizzy Gillespie

2. Which jazz cornet player was portrayed by Danny Kaye in a movie biography?

a. Red Nichols
b. Benny Goodman
c. Glenn Miller
d. Gena Kupra

3. What hit Swing song did Ziggy Elman adapt from an old Jewish folk tune?

a. Horay For Captain Spaulding
b. Nature Boy
c. And The Angels Sing
d. If I Were A Rich Man

4. Which Count Basie composition was used on the infamous Gong Show?

a. Backstage At Stuff’s
b. April In Paris
c. Jumping At The Woodside
d. One O’Clock Jump

5. Which jazzman met success despite the loss of an arm?

a. Lester Young
b. Pete Kelly
c. Red Nichols
d. Wingy Manone

6. Who composed the jazz standard “Misty”?

a. Erroll Garner
b. Fats Weller
c. Benny Goodman
d. Count Basie

7. Which pianist co-wrote “Round Midnight”?

a. Fats Waller
b. Eddy Duchin
c. Meade Lux Lewis
d. Thelonius Monk

8. Name Dave Brubeck’s best-known tune.

a, Theme from Mr. Broadway
b. Le Souk
c. Take Five
d. Unsquare Dance

9. What was Duke Ellington’s real name?

a. Thomas Fats
b. Glenn
c. Benjamin
d. Edward Kennedy

10. Who is considered the “Father of the Blues”?

a. W. C. Handy
b. R. Nathaniel Dett
c. Scott Joplin
d. Charlie Patton

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Paul Desmond studied the clarinet at San Francisco State University and played in various local bands before joining the Dave Brubeck Quartet in 1951. Because his career has been almost exclusively with this group until its dissolution in 1967, he shared his success, without receiving the recognition it deserves.

Desmond continued to play occasionally with Brubeck in the 1970s, notably in 1975 when the two men have recorded an album of duets. He also appeared at festivals and toured Europe, Australia and Japan for George Wein. He later worked in New York on the half-note with his own group, which included Jim Hall (1974), and in Toronto as a soloist with a rhythm section (1974-5).

Desmond was one of the most capable of “cool” trend alto saxophone jazz, Lee Konitz, who was the main exhibitor, and Lester Young, Benny Carter, and others had announced in the late 1930s . His tone was a luminous quality, consistent throughout the instrument, which was particularly recalls Carter, but his most notable gift for improvisation is its power of melodic invention, supported in part that depends on use unusual sequence of the imagination. Desmond independent recordings, with sidemen Gerry Mulligan (1962) and Hall (1959-65), for example, did more justice to the many people who Brubeck, for whom he composed the famous Take Five 5 / 4 time.