JAZZQUIZ
FEBRUARY 2012
THE ANSWERS
The Name's The Game ... In the quiz this time we challenged you to work out the person's name in the title of each of the fifteen songs from which the following lines were taken. How well did you do? 15 correct: Outstanding |
Here are the answers and some links to some great videos:
1. She was the roughest, toughest rail
Answer: Minnie The Moocher
2. And all at once I owned the earth and sky
Answer: Miss Jones (Have You Met Miss Jones)
3. Two left feet, oh, so neat
Answer: Georgia Brown (Sweet Georgia Brown)
[Click here for a video of Benny Goodman playing Sweet Georgia Brown at the Aurex Jazz Festival in Japan in 1980. Teddy Wilson is on piano]
4. But she's only a dream
Answer: Laura
5. The murmur of a brook at evening tides
Answer: Stella (Stella By Starlight)
[Click here for a video of the Paul Motian Quintet playing Stella By Starlight in Italy in 1995 with Paul Motian, Lee Konitz, Joe Lovano, Bill Frisell and Marc Johnson]
6. It's so nice to have you back where you belong
Answer: Dolly (Hello, Dolly)
7. Morning time and evening time and summer time and winter time
Answer: Bess (Bess, You Is My Woman Now)
[Click here for the video of this beautiful Gershwin song performed by Cynthia Haymon and Willard White in the 1986 Glyndebourne Festival Opera production from 1986]
8. Old Deacon Splivin, his flock was givin' the way of livin' right
Answer: Hagar (Aunt Hagar's Blues)
9. Oh, the shark, babe, has such teeth, dear
Answer: Mack The Knife
[Click here to listen to George Shearing's unusual, sad version of Mack The Knife from his album Grand Piano]
10. Come on a-long, come on a-long, let me take you by the hand
Answer: Alexander (Alexander's Ragtime Band)
11. Went to sleep countin' sheep by a blue lagoon
Answer: Bernie (Bernie's Tune)
12. But come ye back when summer's in the meadow
Answer: Danny (Danny Boy)
[Click here for a video of Ben Webster playing Danny Boy. I first heard him play this on the album Soulville with Oscar Peterson - mesmerising!]
13. The heavenly blisses of his kisses
Answer: Harry (I'm Just Wild About Harry)
14. Now when its rainin', I don't miss the sun
Answer: Lorraine (Sweet Lorraine)
15. Then she ran into Alfonso Brown, and hasn't been the same since Alfonso put her down
Answer: Sadie (Sister Sadie)