Who Did That Jazz Song Quiz

Giant Steps, not Giants Steps. Otherwise, nice quiz!

Great quiz! Got 19/22. Love the idea to include a Spotify playlist too.

Moanin' could also be Charles Mingus!

I always thought of "Watermelon Man" as a Mongo Santamaría work. But now I know better.

Although Armstrong and Cole are jazz artists, "What a Wonderful World" and "L-O-V-E" were and are not "jazz songs" but simple pop songs, albeit pop of an earlier generation. If Wynton Marsalis sings "Happy Birthday" to someone, that doesn't make Happy Birthday a jazz song (unless he adds some swing syncopation, improvisation or extended harmony to it--and then only the performance would be jazz, but not the song as such). Jazz compositions (not really "songs" unless they are sung) such as "So What", "Ornithology" and "One O'Clock Jump" were conceived of as jazz pieces, written by jazz artists and don't make much sense as pop songs of this or any generation.

I enjoyed and I would like to see a part 2.

Thank you for not shying away from featuring an entertainment-based quiz whose answers all lie before 1980. So many more quizzes to be mined there.

Cannonball Adderley there at the end is a nice surprise. An underrated great.

Some purists would argue that Weather Report is jazz fusion as opposed to jazz proper, but I'm not one of them.

Sing Sing Sing was written and performed by Louis Prima (King Louis!), hence the big drum introduction for him to have fun with. I spent a long time trying to figure out what was wrong before remembering Benny Goodman played it too. Maybe accept both?