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top 39

Memorize these and recognize 45.3% of all Jazz clues.

1 Duke Ellington 10x
2 Louis Armstrong 9x
3 Ella Fitzgerald 9x
4 Charlie Parker 8x
5 Count Basie 7x
6 Miles Davis 6x
7 Lionel Hampton 4x
8 Fats Waller 4x
9 Billie Holiday 4x
10 Dave Brubeck 4x
11 Earl "Fatha" Hines 3x
12 Django Reinhardt 3x
13 Dizzy 3x
14 Cab Calloway 3x
15 Buddy Rich 3x
16 Wynton Marsalis 3x
17 Dizzy Gillespie 3x
18 Woody Herman 2x
19 Thelonious Monk 2x
20 New Orleans 2x
21 George Benson 2x
22 Gene Krupa 2x
23 Fats 2x
24 Erroll Garner 2x
25 Dixieland 2x
26 Chick 2x
27 Cannonball 2x
28 Branford Marsalis 2x
29 Bix 2x
30 Benny Goodman 2x
31 "Take The 'A' Train" 2x
32 "My Favorite Things" 2x
33 "Dizzy" 2x
34 vibes 2x
35 the swing 2x
36 the double bass 2x
37 the clarinet 2x
38 a saxophone 2x
39 Duke 2x

Sample Clues

This bandleader from D.C. traveled with an electric piano, now in the Smithsonian, so he wouldn't wake hotel guests
Duke Ellington
In 1952 this musician known as "Satchmo" became the first inducted into Down Beat magazine's Jazz Hall of Fame
Louis Armstrong
She's the "First Lady of Song" seen here
Ella Fitzgerald
This sax great's last public engagement was on March 5, 1955 at Birdland, a New York City club named for him
Charlie Parker
"Take The 'A' Train" was Duke Ellington's theme & "One O'Clock Jump" was this "noble" bandleader's
Count Basie
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