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Q: Which well-known American jazz musician and composer mooted the concept of getting an International Jazz Day and when was it first noticed?
A: Herbie Hancock and 2012.
Q: Which African metropolis is the Global Host for 2024 and can anchor the International Jazz Day programmes around the globe.
A: Tangier, Morocco
Q: Characterised by heavy mode modulation and few chord adjustments, which sort of jazz had its pioneers in Miles Davis and John Coltrane?
A: Modal Jazz
Q: ‘Bird’, the 1988 biographical movie directed and produced by Clint Eastwood, is about which well-known jazz musician?
A: Charlie Parker
Q: What is the declare to fame of ‘Livery Stable Blues’ launched in February 1917?
A: It is acknowledged as the primary commercially launched jazz recording
Q: Which acclaimed jazz musicians had been nicknamed ‘High Priest of Bop’ and ‘King of the Clarinet’?
A: Thelonious Monk and Artie Shaw
Q: Whose autobiography is titled ‘Lady Sings the Blues’ that was tailored right into a film in 1972, starring Diana Ross?
A: Billie Holiday
Legendary singer Ella Fitzgerald, dubbed the ‘the Lady of Swing’, is known for improvised scat solos.
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