The jazz quiz .....

[mikeweil]

I'm not sure whether there already is or was a thread like this, but nonetheless .....

Rules: Place a jazz-related question. He/she who gets the answer correct first may place the next one. Please state your source for the question and answer to avoid arguments.

The first question:

Who is Jan Garbarek's favourite jazz tenor saxist?

[andybleaden]

I remember him talking on the radio BBC Radio 3 and he mentioned John Coltrane as his inspiration etc...is that right...do I get the chocolates?

[mikeweil]

Sorry, no .....

[andybleaden]

I am devastated (and hungry now)

Off for more revision

[Niko]

I am devastated (and hungry now)

Off for more revision

just realized I ate 200 gr of chocolate for lunch without thinking about it... can't decide between guessing dexter gordon and guessing albert ayler - suppose that means I have no clue...

[Larry Kart]

Boots Randolph?

[mikeweil]

Excellent idea, but it's not quite that crazy a choice .....

[Man with the Golden Arm]

just one guess allowed?

Joe Henderson

[mikeweil]

I'd say one name per post, but you can try again as many times as is necessary .....

[tonym]

Bernt Rosengren?

[tjobbe]

if not Ayler, what about Peter Brötzmann

Cheers, Tjobbe

[king ubu]

Kenny G? Ahem... Prez?

[mikeweil]

No correct guess yet ..... lemme give you a hint: he's black, and was born before 1930

Edited August 15, 2006 by mikeweil

[andybleaden]

charlie parker?

[andybleaden]

Actually , thinking about it again I would go with Johnny Hodges perhaps...ooooohh now I am being indecisive

[mikeweil]

Ben Webster and Johnny Hodges were among those he confessed listening to every day, but his favourite was someone else - and a tenor man, as I said.

[tjobbe]

I believe the tenor he listens to most is..... Jan Garbarek

cheers, Tjobbe

[andybleaden]

then that would push me to Sonny Rollins but he was born in 1930 wasn't he?

[brownie]

Big Jay McNelly???

[andybleaden]

hmmmmmmmmmm

[Big Al]

Coleman Hawkins

[mikeweil]

Okay, one more hint: it's a guy from the Hawkins school.

[RDK]

I keep thinking this sounds like a trick question. Like: who was Buddy Rich's favorite drummer?

[P.L.M]

BEN WEBSTER?

What's not impossible as WEBSTER lived in Holland and tour Scandinavia often in the sixties what make the probabilities that he has been seen by GARBAREK playing on stage credible.

[mikeweil]

As posted above, he stated that he listened to Ben Webster and Johnny Hodges every day, but that his favourite was someone else .....

My source is the liner notes of this CD:

Jon Gordon, The Things We Need (Justintime Records)

Gordon mentions a conversation he had with Garbarek in his liner notes, and there .....

Edited August 15, 2006 by mikeweil