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Exam 1 Flashcards

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Thomas A. Dorsey

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“Father of gospel”, fused together jazz and blues with gospel

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Frisk Jubillee singers

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First African American vocal performance tour

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Country Blues

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Uses bottlenecking

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Vaudeville

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Distinguished by female singers

Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith

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Ma Rainey

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“Mother of Blues”

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Bessie Smith

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“Empress of Blues”

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W.C Handy

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“Father of Blues” first to publish blues

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Minstrelsy

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Comedic and Racist form of entertainment (dancing, song, jokes)

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James Bland

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Minstrelsy performer and song composer

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Bert Williams

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Taught Edward VII of England to dance

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Ragtime

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Syncopated piano style. People danced close together

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Scott Joplin

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King of Ragtime writers and was classically trained

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Tin Pan Alley

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Section of New York (Manhattan) where sheet music was published

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The Castles

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Husband and wife who popularized Ragtime with whites who traveled with James Reese Europe

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Brass Bands

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Trompet/Cornet, Trombone, symbols, bass drum, snare, violin. (AABB) pattern

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Creols of Color

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Jazz band (blacks)

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17
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Congo Square

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Slaves were given Sunday off to dance and play music.

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Front Line

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Trumpet/Cornet, Trombone, Clarinet

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Storyville

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Area of prostitution, nightclubs, gambling, and music

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Great Migration

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Largest internal relocation of people in history of USA. Went to Northern Cities for betting paying jobs and equality

21
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Joe “King” Oliver

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Claims to invent collective improvisation, Louis Armstrong’s mentor, “kid Ory’s band”, started “King Oliver Creole Jazz band” in Chicago

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Jellyroll Morton

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Pianist, “King Porter Stomp”, “Jellyroll Morton and his Hot peppers.

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Freddic Keppard

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Cornet, Creol Jazz band, played with handkerchief over hand

24
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The original Dixieland Jazz Band

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First band to record a song in 1917

25
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Buddy Bolden

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Cornet, known as “The Big Noise”

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Sidney Bechet

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Saxophone, moved to paris

27
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Harlem Renaissance

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Result of the great migration

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Duke Ellington

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Cotton Club, Piano player (Big band and stride, most prolific composer, and big bands)

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Bubber Miley

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Trademark of Jungle Jazz

30
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Paul Whiteman

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“King of Jazz”, semi-classical, symphonic jazz, paid musicians well

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“Changes”

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Features Rhythm Boys with scat breaks

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Bing Crosby

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Worked with Paul Whiteman, used microphone technique, sounded conversational

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Don Redman

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Arranger for Fletcher henderson, all instruments. Led his own orchestra and wrote arrangements for Paul Whiteman Orchestra, Court Basie and Dorsey Brothers

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James P. Johnson

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“Father of Stride”, fat wallers teacher, Played at rent parties

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What are some of Louis Armstrong’s Contributions to Jazz?

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Blues scale and harmonic form, solo improb, scat singing, fusing dixieland and Tin Pan Alley songs, and taught the world swing!

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Louis Armstrong

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Riverboat for three years (learned how to play sheet music, Worked with Oliver in Creol Jazz band, played with lil’ hardin, Hot five and Hot seven (recording group only, “West end Blues” trumpet solo to start, slower and mutes, scat singing voice, and civil rights actavist

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Earl hines

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Pianist, trumpet style on the piano

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Bix Biederbeck

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Cornetist/piano (behind Louis), knowon for unique town quality and improvisational style

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Chicago Style

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Austin High Gang, expansive solos and polyphonic theme statements

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Coleman Hawkins

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Template for saxophone, “Body and Sol” greatest jazz song of all time, vocalase

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