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Jazz Legends Quiz

Try out this Jazz Legends quiz to test your knowledge. Jazz Legends trivia celebrates the musicians who defined and reinvented a genre rooted in improvisation, swing, and cultural exchange across more than a century.

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15 questions

~3 min to finish

Easy to hard difficulty

360 pts max score

  1. Question 1 · Hard · 40 pts

    Name all three bandmates in John Coltrane's quartet on "A Love Supreme."?

  2. Question 2 · Hard · 40 pts

    Miles Davis's "Bitches Brew" arrived in 1970 in what format?

  3. Question 3 · Hard · 40 pts

    Art Blakey co-founded the Jazz Messengers with which pianist?

  4. Question 4 · Hard · 40 pts

    Which 1959 Columbia release belongs to Charles Mingus?

  5. Question 5 · Hard · 40 pts

    Besides Coltrane himself, who made up the quartet on "A Love Supreme"?

  6. Question 6 · Hard · 40 pts

    Before "A Love Supreme," Rollins had this classic in 1956—name it.?

  7. Question 7 · Hard · 40 pts

    What kind of album package was "Bitches Brew" when released in 1970?

  8. Question 8 · Easy · 10 pts

    Which jazz icon was born in New Orleans in 1901?

  9. Question 9 · Easy · 10 pts

    Who was best known as both a bandleader and a pianist?

  10. Question 10 · Easy · 10 pts

    Charlie Parker is most associated with which saxophone type?

  11. Question 11 · Easy · 10 pts

    What instrument did Dizzy Gillespie play?

  12. Question 12 · Easy · 10 pts

    Who recorded the song "Lady Sings the Blues"?

  13. Question 13 · Easy · 10 pts

    Whose 1970 release was the album "Bitches Brew"?

  14. Question 14 · Easy · 10 pts

    Which saxophone giant released "A Love Supreme" in 1965?

  15. Question 15 · Easy · 10 pts

    Name the group that recorded the album "Time Out."?