What songs are in the Jazz quiz?

91 real records, drawn from the same catalogue the Guess The Song app uses, with Frank Sinatra, Miles Davis and Nina Simone among the artists you'll hear. We don't publish the track list: knowing it would be the answer key, and the point is to name the record from the music. The breakdown above shows the years and the difficulty spread instead.

Is the Jazz quiz free to play?

Yes, and there's no sign-up. Press play and a record starts. You can play as many rounds as you like here; the app adds ranked duels, friends rooms and pass-the-phone party games.

Jazz Music Quiz

Standards and the recordings that defined them. The tune is often the easy part; naming which recording of it you are hearing is where this one gets interesting.

91 records
Free, no sign-up
30 seconds each

Song 1

Jazz — 0

—

Worth right now

of —

0:00

Nothing heard yet

— cold — at 0:15 — floor

Replaying is free: the price only falls past the furthest point you have heard.

Which one is playing?

Music previews on Apple Music. Apple and Apple Music are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries.

The game needs JavaScript to play a record and keep score. Everything written on this page — how the scoring works, what is in this quiz — reads fine without it.

How to play the Jazz quiz

Press the record and pick the cover that is playing the moment you know it. Each of the 91 records here is worth the most the instant it starts and less for every second you let run, so the Jazz quiz is a bet on your own ear: commit early and it pays in full, wait for the chorus and it pays half. The full scoring rules are on the hub.

What’s in the Jazz quiz

91 playable records, released between 1937 and 2021. We don’t list the tracks: that would be the answer key.

Records by year

1937–45

1946–54

1955–63

1964–72

1973–81

1982–90

1991–99

2000–08

2009–17

2018–26

How hard it gets

Band 1 is the most-played tenth of the catalogue. A quiz weighted to the left is one almost everyone can play.

Artists you’ll hear

Frank Sinatra
Miles Davis
Nina Simone
Billie Holiday
Ella Fitzgerald
Chet Baker
Louis Armstrong
Gregory Porter
John Coltrane
Antônio Carlos Jobim
Herbie Hancock
Diana Krall
João Gilberto
Stan Getz
Astrud Gilberto
Count Basie
Ibrahim Maalouf
Nat "King" Cole
Charlie Parker
Curtis Mayfield
Dave Brubeck
Duke Ellington
Etta James
Johnny Hartman
and 9 more

Questions

How the scoring works, what a wrong guess costs and whether you need Apple Music are answered once, on the hub.

What songs are in the Jazz quiz?: 91 real records, drawn from the same catalogue the Guess The Song app uses, with Frank Sinatra, Miles Davis and Nina Simone among the artists you'll hear. We don't publish the track list: knowing it would be the answer key, and the point is to name the record from the music. The breakdown above shows the years and the difficulty spread instead.
Is the Jazz quiz free to play?: Yes, and there's no sign-up. Press play and a record starts. You can play as many rounds as you like here; the app adds ranked duels, friends rooms and pass-the-phone party games.