Jazz

Who was the piano player at the club where Charlie Parker washed dishes to earn extra money when he first came to NYC?

What club in Harlem began to attract some of the most adventuresome and dissatified people in jazz in the years 1939-1940?

The house band at Minton's included 2 brillant young innovators:

What great trumpet player "cut" the great swing era trumpet palyers Roy Eldridge at Minton's?

Gillespie had a lifelong fasination with:

What is ironic about Gillespie's nickname Dizzy?

One of the first swing bands Dizzy worked for in NYC was

In 1940, what alto sax player from KC started being heard in NYC?

Parker was born in

After a serious car wreck which killed his best friend, Charlie Parker became hooked on:

Playing with the Jay McShann band, Parker got his distinctive nickname:

Along with speed, Parker played the sax, another dimension to his playing was Parker's sax tone. It was:

In 1942, Bird left Jay McShann's band to join what band?

What trumpet player did he meet in the Hines band, that together, they would change the face of jazz?

Why, at first, and at least through 1942 and 1944, did Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie's playing remain a secret?

On November 26, 1945 Bird and Diz went into the recording studio and recorded one of the greatest of the Bop recordings called:

This recording was really the first recording that:

What was the "new plague" confronting black communities after the war?

Some musicians promoting the "new music" felt the time was right to:

The only thing that would matter in the "new music" was a musician's:

The singular genius who came to epitomize the "new music" was

The "innovations" of the new music came at a great cost as:

The end of WWII marked the beginning of the end for:

While stranded in LA Parker recorded several records on his own for the

One of the tunes recorded on Parker's LA session was "Lover Man" and upon its release Parker said the recording should be:

After a complete mental breakdown in LA due to alcohol and drug addictionand setting his hotel room on fire Parker was:

Why did Dizzy Gillespie put together his on Bop big band?

The man who was the biggest "mentor" to Bop musicians was:

Became the public face of Bop

Parker lived with a dancer named:

Charlie Parker once said about using and being addicted to Heroin:

Jazz and great jazz soloists retreated to:

The kind of jazz where musicians played to entertain themselves appearsafter the war at:

The "new music" was called:

BeBop was as much

Dizzy Gillespie became:

Charlie Parker had been addicted to heroin since the age of:

Charlie Parker's source for heroin when he came to LA was the proprietor of a shoe shine stand. This man's name was:

When dancers heard Bop they would:

Who was the gifted young trumpet player playing with Bird at the Three Deuces?

Critics dubbed the "new music" as Be Bop. What did Parker and Gillespie think of the word?

In May of 1949 Parker and a group of jazz musicians went to Paris for one of the first:

In his life Parker never:

After his trip to Paris, he put together a group which would eventually be his best selling record. It was called:

What club opened in New York dedicated to Bop and named after CharlieParker?

One of the most influential and talented Be-Boppers who brought the piano into the realm of modern jazz was:

The female singer who made her mark in modern jazz was:

What pianist loved Bop but hated the corrupting influence of drugs?

Bop seemed to align itself with a "hip" movement in the 50's known as:

What Bop musician once dismissed Louis Armstrong as a "has been"?

When Parker was buried in his home town of Kansas City his Motherordered that:

By the time of his death, his followers were covering the walls in GreenwichVillage with the slogan:

What swing band leader referred to Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker as "musical communists?"

What event happens to Charlie Parker which seems to be the singular event which "pulls the rug out from under him" and sends him on his las tdownward spiral?

What did the manager of Birdland do when Bird got drunk and tried to fire the band?

What do Bird do with Jackie Mclean's horn that made Jackie very angry?

The medical examiner estimated Charlie Parker's age at the time of his death at between

In reality, Bird died when he was

Dizzy Gillespie was born:

Was the first to bring Latin rythmns into jazz

On the tune Ko-Ko

Charlie Parker Died

Reason Bebop hurt jazz