Alan Rock's Trivia!

Questions:

1) What is the best-selling jazz record of all time?

2) There have been three famous jazz musicians named Bill Evans. The pianist and the sax player kept their names, but the third Bill Evans changed his name. What name does the third Bill go by?

3) What was Ben Webster's nickname?

4) Paul Desmond had an agreement with his quartet leader, Dave Brubeck, that for any solo albums Paul recorded he would not do what?

Answers:

1) Kind of Blue - it still sells 5,000 copies a week.

2) Yusef Lateef. There is some debate on Lateef's real name. It may have been Bill Huddleston, but he did for a time go by Bill Evans.

3) "The Brute" - apparently Webster was a bit short-tempered and was known to throw an occasional punch.

4) Desmond agreed not to record with another pianist.