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1. Milt Jackson, John Lewis, Percy Heath and Kenny Clarke formed this influential group in 1952.
2. Who was regarded as the "James Dean of Jazz" in the 1950s?
3. Who was the lead alto saxophone player in the Duke Ellington Orchestra during the height of its popularity in the 1930s and 40s and co-wrote the song "Jeep's Blues" with Ellington?
4. Who was the pianist on Miles Davis' seminal 1959 album "Kind of Blue"?
5. Who was the Creole musician from New Orleans who was the self-proclaimed "inventor" of jazz?
6. When Louis Armstrong moved from New Orleans to Chicago in 1922 he was going to play with this man's band.
7. Who was the big man from Texas nicknamed "Big T"?
8. What did Thelonious Monk lose in 1951 that made his life very difficult for a number of years?
9. Who was the Belgian-born gypsy who made his reputation as a musician in France, cemented it by performing with Duke Ellington in America, and was regarded as one of the first jazz masters on his instrument?
10. Who spotted Coleman Hawkins in a theatre pit orchestra in 1922 and promptly hired him as a bandmember, thereby kickstarting an enormous career?
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