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Quiz about The Night is Dark and Full of Jazz Tunes

The Night is Dark and Full of Jazz Tunes Quiz

Welcome to the show. Tonight 's gig includes standards with a nocturnal title. Enjoy.

A multiple-choice quiz by zordy. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
zordy

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
396,629

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
7 / 10

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122

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Question 1 of 10

1. The original title of this tune is "Corcovado"?
Hint

A Night in Rio

Silent Night

Brazilian Nights

Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars

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Question 2 of 10

2. Probably the most popular song written by Cole Porter. You've heard many times Frank Sinatra singing: "you are the one, only you beneath the moon and under the sun". What song?

Answer: (Three Words, the second is "and")

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Question 3 of 10

3. Also known as Interlude, this Dizzy Gillespie' tune mentions in its title a place in North Africa?
Hint

A Fortnight in Algeria

A Night in Tunisia

Two Nights in Casablanca

Libyan Nights.

4. This song, written by Matt Dennis and Tom Adair in the '40s, became famous in the version of Frank Sinatra, was played and sung beautifully by Chet Baker and was performed also by Bob Dylan on Late Show with David Letterman. What song?
Hint

Strangers in the Night

Because the Night

Sleepless Night

The Night We Called It a Day

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Question 5 of 10

5. This song has the same title as a 1948 film featuring Edward G. Robinson as a fortune teller?
Hint

The Night Has a Hundred Ears

The Night Has a Dozen of Noses

The Night Has a Couple of Mouths

The Night Has a Thousand Eyes

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Question 6 of 10

6. The best-known composition by Thelonious Monk, also a Bertrand Tavernier film starring Dexter Gordon. Name the song please?
Hint

Diamond Midnight

Midnight Square

'Round Midnight.

Midnight Triangle

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Question 7 of 10

7. A 12-bar blues composed by Jimmy Forrest and released in 1952. There is also a version by James Brown, recorded in 1961. What tune?
Hint

Night Flight

Night Trip

Night Train

Night Bus

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Question 8 of 10

8. Like many popular song, this one, recorded twice by Judy Garland, an also by the omnipresent Sinatra, revealed all its potentialities in the version by a jazz master, in this case Keith Jarret. What night song are we talking about?
Hint

In The Still of the Night

Last Night When We Were Young

Stella By Starnight

Angel of the Night

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Question 9 of 10

9. This song was written for the film Rosalie. The original version was sung by Nelson Eddy, published in 1937. Which Cole Porter tune is this? Hint

In The Still of the Night.

Every Time We Say Goodnight

All Through the Night

Night for Sale

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Question 10 of 10

10. Made popular by Frank Sinatra, this song was performed also by fine jazz musicians like Woody Herman and Oscar Peterson.
Which is the "loneliest night of the week" according to lyricist Sammy Cahn?
Hint

Sunday

Friday

Monday

Saturday

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. The original title of this tune is "Corcovado"?

Answer: Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars

A famous bossa nova tune written by Antonio Carlos Jobim in 1960 and recorded by dozen of musicians. Corcovado, or the Hunchback, is a mountain in the middle of the city of Rio on the top of which stands the staute of Christ the Redeemer.

2. Probably the most popular song written by Cole Porter. You've heard many times Frank Sinatra singing: "you are the one, only you beneath the moon and under the sun". What song?

Answer: Night and Day

The song was written originally for the 1932 musical Gay Divorcee (that probably in the '30s had another meaning than today).
It was a very unusual tune for the time, and still is, having a chorus of 48 bars instead of the usual 32.

3. Also known as Interlude, this Dizzy Gillespie' tune mentions in its title a place in North Africa?

Answer: A Night in Tunisia

Among hundreds of rendition, I would recommend Sarah Vaughan's, Charlie Parker's or the classic Gillespie's as a quintet at Massey Hall 1953.
The quintessence of Bebop, this tune has a very unusual melody with exotic intervals. The structure is also peculiar, with a chorus repeated twice, a more conventional bridge, and another part (sometimes called "riff") ending with a signature sax vamp introducing the improvisations.

Answer: The Night We Called It a Day

It was Sinatra's first solo recording, in 1942.
Other notable performances: Charlie Haden, Diana Krall, John Coltrane.
There's a 2003 movie called "The Night We Called It a Day", with Dennis Hopper as Frank Sinatra during his tour of Australia in 1974.

5. This song has the same title as a 1948 film featuring Edward G. Robinson as a fortune teller?

Answer: The Night Has a Thousand Eyes

Actually the song was composed for the film score.
Particularly popular among saxophonists, in a recording by Ronnie Scott and Sonny Stitt the two improvise for 18 minutes on this song chord progression.
Not to be confused with a pop song with the same title that was a big hit for Bobby Vee in the Sixties.

6. The best-known composition by Thelonious Monk, also a Bertrand Tavernier film starring Dexter Gordon. Name the song please?

Answer: 'Round Midnight.

'Round Midnight is, allegedly, the most-recorded jazz standard written by a jazz musician. Among so many versions, Monk's and Miles Davis's stand out.

7. A 12-bar blues composed by Jimmy Forrest and released in 1952. There is also a version by James Brown, recorded in 1961. What tune?

Answer: Night Train

The song borrows heavily from Johnny Hodges "That's The Blues, Old Man" and Ellington's "Happy Go Lucky Local".
It started as a jazz-blues tune and ended as a R&B hit by James Brown with lyrics completely different from the original, written by Oscar Washington.

Answer: Last Night When We Were Young

Jarret's version was recorded live in Tokio in 1996, and released in 1998.
Also the version for guitar by Kenny Burrell is beautiful.

9. This song was written for the film Rosalie. The original version was sung by Nelson Eddy, published in 1937. Which Cole Porter tune is this?

Answer: In The Still of the Night.

Other remarkable versions: Tommy Dorsey, Leo Reisman, Django Reinhardt, Charlie Parker, Ella Fitzgerald, Billy Eckstine.

Among many non-jazz performers: Perry Como, Doris Day, Carly Simon.

10. Made popular by Frank Sinatra, this song was performed also by fine jazz musicians like Woody Herman and Oscar Peterson. Which is the "loneliest night of the week" according to lyricist Sammy Cahn?

Answer: Saturday

Music by Jule Styne.
Often taken as a love song about the absence of the "significant other", according to the composer the song is about a performer who couldn't get a gig on Saturday. Another popular song that was "promoted" to jazz standard despite its a simple tune. The elegant rendition by Oscar Peterson is particularly convincing.

Source: Author zordy

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