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Chapter 2: New Orleans Flashcards

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1
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Which jazz musician played in Europe?

A

Sidney Bechet

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What three things influenced the New Orleans style?

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Brass bands
String ensembles
Collective improvisation

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3
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Who is generally recognized as the first important jazz musician?

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Buddy Bolden

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What instrument did Bolden play?

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Cornet

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Bolden’s playing was soft/aggressive

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aggressive

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6
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What was Bolden’s most significant innovation to jazz?

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His personal style

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7
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Bolden’s most famous song

A

“Make Me a Pallet on Your Floor.”

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8
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What is the song form for Jelly Roll Morton’s “Dead Man Blues?”

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12 bar blues

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9
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Blues has __ bars

A

12

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10
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A march has __ bars

A

16

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11
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Pop songs have __ bars

A

32

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12
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What year was jazz first recorded?

A

1917

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13
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Where was jazz often played in New Orleans?

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Bars, clubs, parades, parks, riverboats

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What district of New Orleans gave jazz its funky rhythms and energy?

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Storyville

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The front line was composed of melody/harmony/rhythm instruments

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melody

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Examples of front line instruments

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trumpet, cornet, trombone, clarinet

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17
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Many of the jazz rhythm section instruments came from:

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String ensembles

18
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The earliest New Orleans jazz consisted of a _____ playing a melody with a ____ playing a countermelody

A

cornet; clarinet

19
Q

The ______ smears

A

trombone

20
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Collective improvisation texture

A

polyphonic

21
Q

During the trio section of a piece, New Orleans bands often switched to a _____ texture

A

block-chord

22
Q

What are breaks and stop time?

A

Where all instruments stop playing to let one instrument solo for a bit

23
Q

Jazz began to leave New Orleans at the same time as the ______ __________

A

Great Migration

24
Q

The first genuinely jazz figure to travel widely was

A

Freddie Keppard (cornet)

25
Q

What was the first band to record jazz?

A

The Original Dixieland Jass Band (ODJB)

26
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Father of white jazz who taught many members of the ODJB

A

George “Papa Jack” Laine

27
Q

Which decade is the Jazz Age?

A

1920s

28
Q

Tell me about Jelly Roll Morton

A

Pianist
Loved money and credit
Recorded in Indiana!
Stomp

29
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Morton’s band, the Red Hot Peppers, existed solely to perform/record

A

record

30
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Morton brought the New Orleans sound to _____

A

Chicago

31
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Kid Ory played the ______

A

trombone

32
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________ used multiple different kinds of mutes for his trumpet

A

King Oliver

33
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Jelly Roll Morton’s biggest tunes

A

Dead Man Blues
King Porter Stomp

34
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King Oliver’s biggest tunes

A

Dippermouth Blues
Snake Rag

35
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King Oliver’s Jazz Band played in the Creole/uptown style

A

Uptown

36
Q

Gennett records produced ____ and _____

A

Morton
Oliver

37
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The trio is usually __ bars long, twice as long as the chorus

A

32

38
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The first great improvisor in jazz history

A

Sidney Becket

39
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Sidney Becket brought the ____ into jazz music

A

saxophone

40
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Sidney Becket’s main jazz song

A

Cake Walking Babies

41
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Freddie Keppard’s main song

A

Stock Yards Strut

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