Jazz Acronyms

In this month's quiz we challenged you with fifteen jazz related acronyms. How many of the initials did you do unravel or recognise?

The answers are below ....

Don't forget to check your score

Give yourself an extra point if you could identify which song these lyrics came from:

I'll never find the words
That say enough, tell enough
I mean they just aren't swell enough

(Too Marvellous For Words - Mercer and Whiting)
[Click here for a video of Canadian Matt Forbes swinging the song]

Here are the answers

1. ODJB

Answer: Original Dixieland Jazz Band

[Click here for a video of an episode of the March of Time from 1937, featuring the Original Dixieland Jazz Band]

2. EST

Answer: Esbjörn Svensson Trio

3. SNJO

Answer: Scottish National Jazz Orchestra

4. NHOP

Answer: Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen - (Danish Double Bass Player)

5. U.M.M.G.

Answer: Upper Manhattan Medical Group – (Billy Strayhorn composition dedicated to Duke Ellington’s medical centre)

[Click here for a video of trumpeter Terell Stafford and saxophonist Tim Warfield who are joined by music director and bassist, Keith DeStefano, Anam Owili-Eger on piano and Joe Falcey on drums performing UMMG in 2014].

6. NORK

Answer: New Orleans Rhythm Kings

7. JLCO

Answer: Jazz At The Lincoln Centre Orchestra (New York City orchestra led by Wynton Marsalis at the Lincoln Centre)

8. ARQ

Answer: Alison Rayner Quintet

9. APPJAG

Answer: All Party Parliamentary Jazz Appreciation Group (UK Parliamentary group that makes annual jazz awards)

10. NYJO

Answer: National Youth Jazz Orchestra

11. HMV

Answer: His Master’s Voice (Record Label)

12. MOBO

Answer: Music Of Black Origin (Annual UK award presentation)

13. DSCB

Answer: Dutch Swing College Band

[Click here for a video of the Dutch Swing College Band playing Bourbon Steet Parade in 1970]

14. JATP

Answer: Jazz At The Philarmonic (Series of jazz concerts and tours produced by Norman Grantz between 1944 and 1983)

15. MJQ

Answer: Modern Jazz Quartet