Chapter 2: New Orleans Flashcards
Which jazz musician played in Europe?
Sidney Bechet
What three things influenced the New Orleans style?
Brass bands
String ensembles
Collective improvisation
Who is generally recognized as the first important jazz musician?
Buddy Bolden
What instrument did Bolden play?
Cornet
Bolden’s playing was soft/aggressive
aggressive
What was Bolden’s most significant innovation to jazz?
His personal style
Bolden’s most famous song
“Make Me a Pallet on Your Floor.”
What is the song form for Jelly Roll Morton’s “Dead Man Blues?”
12 bar blues
Blues has __ bars
12
A march has __ bars
16
Pop songs have __ bars
32
What year was jazz first recorded?
1917
Where was jazz often played in New Orleans?
Bars, clubs, parades, parks, riverboats
What district of New Orleans gave jazz its funky rhythms and energy?
Storyville
The front line was composed of melody/harmony/rhythm instruments
melody
Examples of front line instruments
trumpet, cornet, trombone, clarinet
Many of the jazz rhythm section instruments came from:
String ensembles
The earliest New Orleans jazz consisted of a _____ playing a melody with a ____ playing a countermelody
cornet; clarinet
The ______ smears
trombone
Collective improvisation texture
polyphonic
During the trio section of a piece, New Orleans bands often switched to a _____ texture
block-chord
What are breaks and stop time?
Where all instruments stop playing to let one instrument solo for a bit
Jazz began to leave New Orleans at the same time as the ______ __________
Great Migration
The first genuinely jazz figure to travel widely was
Freddie Keppard (cornet)
What was the first band to record jazz?
The Original Dixieland Jass Band (ODJB)
Father of white jazz who taught many members of the ODJB
George “Papa Jack” Laine
Which decade is the Jazz Age?
1920s
Tell me about Jelly Roll Morton
Pianist
Loved money and credit
Recorded in Indiana!
Stomp
Morton’s band, the Red Hot Peppers, existed solely to perform/record
record
Morton brought the New Orleans sound to _____
Chicago
Kid Ory played the ______
trombone
________ used multiple different kinds of mutes for his trumpet
King Oliver
Jelly Roll Morton’s biggest tunes
Dead Man Blues
King Porter Stomp
King Oliver’s biggest tunes
Dippermouth Blues
Snake Rag
King Oliver’s Jazz Band played in the Creole/uptown style
Uptown
Gennett records produced ____ and _____
Morton
Oliver
The trio is usually __ bars long, twice as long as the chorus
32
The first great improvisor in jazz history
Sidney Becket
Sidney Becket brought the ____ into jazz music
saxophone
Sidney Becket’s main jazz song
Cake Walking Babies
Freddie Keppard’s main song
Stock Yards Strut
