Showing posts with label Jazz. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jazz. Show all posts

25 November 2017

Saturday Funky Solutions (019)

Let's jump straight into the answers to yesterday's Friday Fun & Games:


While scoring, remember to note how many points correct answers are worth in each section.

*(Whiteman's was the first to popularize jazz in 1924; but that was at the Aeolian Hall. Maybe Dad remembers!)
**(Kenny was an MJQ'er; Conneie succeeded him on the skins ... Who's Tony Jackson? A noted 88'er of the New Orleans school. (No relation to MJQ vibist Milt))
***(Louie took some highly publicized blasts at bop, but the distinguished author of this one was Condon ... and, tis said (why disbelieve it), he immediately proved his point!)
****(now, you do get it, don't you?)
*****(no, not Father O'Connor!)

The footnotes above are a part of the original answers in the magazine. The (1959) by the answer to #4 in the first section reflects their own acknowledgement that the answer was "as of this date, that is" and the number might be higher for them now.

Have you totaled your points?
Let's see how much better you scored than i did:


I cannot even claim to be Oblong. (Maybe oblong with an equatorial bulge)
So tragically eligible for hermitage.

This quiz comes from the same place as the final ad (for the Gartier Watch) in yesterday's Ad-On Post, the May '59 issue of The Dude. Almost 60 years ago, but they had a fair lock on modern life today for their cover image:


Sure, the tech isn't timely, but if they're on the phone to each other (ages before even radio-telephones were a thing in cars) as it seems, it really is a fairly prescient cover.

Funky? from The Dude v.03 #05 (1959)