Thursday, September 06, 2012

Alan Rock's Trivia!

Questions:

1)  This TV game show premiered in 1983 and was modeled after the simple game of Hangman.

2)  With the advent of the popularity in Rock in the 1950s, many Jazz musicians held the genre in disdain. There were some though that explored the musical vocabulary of Rock, incorporating elements into Jazz. This melding of the two genres became known as what?

3)  What Jazz style, identified with the West Coast, was made popular by Stan Getz, Gerry Mulligan and Lee Konitz?

Answers:

 1)  Wheel. Of. Fortune!



2)  fusion

3)  "Cool Jazz." The most popular example of this sort of Jazz is Dave Brubeck's "Take Five."

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