Swing/BeBop
Charlie Parker Tune
The study of human societies and cultures and their development.
What is Anthropology?
Changes Colors
Composed by Herbie Hancock
What is Chameleon?
What year did Ornette Coleman release "The Shape of Jazz to Come"?
1959
What Dallas neibourhood is Stevie Ray Vaughn from?
Oak Cliff
What song did Dizzy Gillespie supposedly write in Deep Ellum?
A Night in Tunisia.
What Dallas saxophonist taught Charlie Parker?
Buster Smith.
What is the name of the seven piece band that included Wendell Sneed in the 1970's?
The Soul Seven
What Ft. Worth Jazz Venue hire Sun Ra to come and perform?
The Caravan of Dreams.
Name the Drummer that attended The University of North Texas and ended up touring with Seal in the 1990's?
Earl Harvin.
Name the big party of the year in Montego Bay Jamaica?
Sun Splash.
Name the Houston native that lived in Dallas and went on to record and perform with Lee Morgan.
Billy Harper.
What is the name of the legendary Festival created by Roger Boykin and Wendell Sneed?
The South Dallas Pop Festival.
Who is the Alto Clarinetist from Ft. Worth that has made a name for his self in Free Jazz?
William B. Lawsha, better known as Prince Lasha (pronounced "La-shay")
What year was The Texas International Pop Festival first held?
1969.
Name the Dallas Reggae Club and Pool hall that use to be located on lower Greenville Ave.
The Royal Rack.
Name the main Baritone Saxophonist from Dallas that played along side David Newman in The Ray Charles Band.
Leroy Cooper.
Name the Dallas reared musician that wrote the music for the film; The Mack.
Willie Hutch. William McKinley Hutchison
Who is the Ft. Worth Drummer that played and toured with Ornette Coleman?
Ronald Shannon Jackson.
What is the name of the club on Preston in which Norah Jones use to perform?
Popolos.
Name the Classic Dallas Band who's name includes a Spanish folklorist art form and the word Fusion?
Flamenco Fusion.
Who is the Dallas trumpeter that opened the club called Birdland alongside Charlie Parker in 1949?
Oran Thaddeus "Hot Lips" Page.
What year did Gladys Knight and the Pips perform at Bishop College?
1968.
Who is the Ft. Worth Saxophonist that founded The World Saxophone Quartet?
Julius Arthur Hemphill.
Who is the Houston born pianist that founded The Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra in L.A.
Horace Tapscott.
Name the former Conductor of The Dallas Symphony who was instrumental in the creation of a new Symphony Hall.
Eduardo Mata.