Exam 2

Question 1

Who attended Fisk University and is an alto saxophonist?

Answer 1

Jimmie Lunceford

Question 2

born with a form of tuberculosis that left him like a hunchback

Answer 2

Chick Webb

Question 3

discovered ella fitzgerald

Answer 3

chick webb

Question 4

white and jewish bandleader, clarinet player

Answer 4

Artie Shaw

Question 5

Duke ellington

Answer 5

pianist, played at cotton club 1927-1931

Question 6

Sidney bechet

Answer 6

clarinetist

Question 7

Ellington’s 3 moods

Answer 7

exotic style, ballads, dance pieces (ellington was a swing era bandleader)

Question 8

Billy Strayhorn

Answer 8

co-composer who works with ellington, openly gay, very behind-the-scenes

Question 9

prominent woman pianist/arranger

Answer 9

mary lou williams

Question 10

controls kansas city in 1926-1938 and caused lots corruption and illegal things

Answer 10

tom pendergast

Question 11

territory bands

Answer 11

local bands within a particular territory that can be reached by car in a day

Question 12

Blue Devils

Answer 12

a territory band active in Kansas city in 1920’s-30’s, discovered by count basie

Question 13

head arrangements

Answer 13

aurally conceived, not written down, riffs created, flexible and potentially endless

Question 14

count basie

Answer 14

stride pianist from new jersey, started in vaudeville in 1930’s

Question 15

plays for the bennie moten band in 1931 as 2nd pianist

Answer 15

count basie

Question 16

Coleman hawkins

Answer 16

father of tenor saxophone, nicknamed “bean,” “Body and Soul”

Question 17

Lester Young

Answer 17

tenor saxophone, nicknamed “Pres,” known for his private slang, held saxophone at an angle, “cool” aesthetic

Question 18

Fats Waller

Answer 18

stride pianist & composer, pupil of james p johnson, harlem

Question 19

swing pianists who are also bandleaders

Answer 19

ellington, basie, teddy wilson

Question 20

peak of stride piano

Answer 20

swing era

Question 21

Art Tatum

Answer 21

the stride piano virtuoso, used extended chords, harmonic substitution, and melodic paraphrase (the tune comes back)

Question 22

wrote “Over the Rainbow”

Answer 22

Art Tatum

Question 23

Valaida Snow

Answer 23

trumpet player, singer, entertainer

Question 24

not a natural singer with a limited range

Answer 24

billie holliday

Question 25

known for scat singing

Answer 25

ella fitzgerald

Question 26

woman revered by both the jazz and pop community

Answer 26

ella fitzgerald

Question 27

mintons playhouse

Answer 27

in harlem, famous for bebop jam sessions, discouraged beginners with fast tempos and unfamiliar keys

Question 28

Kenny Clark

Answer 28

drummer, nicknamed "klook," shifts beat from bass drum to ride cymbal

Question 29

thelonious monk

Answer 29

piano, composer, loved to experiment, bipolar

Question 30

charlie christian

Answer 30

electric guitar, very innovative, plays with benny goodman sextet, dies of tuberculosis

Question 31

dropping bombs

Answer 31

bass drum accents

Question 32

bebop attitude

Answer 32

progressive approach to pretty much everything

Question 33

chromatic harmony

Answer 33

"progressive" swing

Question 34

charlie parker

Answer 34

alto saxophonist, nicknamed "bird," had a heroin addiction, very fast playing, one of the best blues players

Question 35

dizzy gillespie

Answer 35

trumpet player, moves through various bands in NYC and Pilly, the "head and hands of bebop," long career

Question 36

art blakey

Answer 36

drums

Question 37

jj johnson

Answer 37

trombone, learns to play bebop at young age and lives a very long time until 2001

Question 38

three jazz naratives

Answer 38

modernism, fusion, historicist

Question 39

jazz "mainstream" categories

Answer 39

bebop & swing

Question 40

categories of bebop

Answer 40

cool jazz and hard bop

Question 41

notable cool jazz musician

Answer 41

charlie parker

Question 42

cool jazz traits

Answer 42

experimental, laid back, relaxed, soft, subtle, flexible rhythm, more restraint in rhythm section

Question 43

came up with the "Birth of Cool"

Answer 43

Miles Davis, very socially ambitious and interracial and intellectual

Question 44

Miles davis

Answer 44

trumpet player, plays for charlie parker

Question 45

Gil Evans

Answer 45

arranger and composer

Question 46

Miles Davis nonet

Answer 46

experiment in instrumentation, composition and improvisers interrelate

Question 47

Dave Brubeck

Answer 47

cool jazz pianist & composer, known for his use of irregular meters ("Take 5")

Question 48

Take 5

Answer 48

song with 5 beats per measure, dave brubeck, tune by paul desmond (alto sax)

Question 49

hard bop

Answer 49

more elemental, not interested in experimenting, hard driving and heavy on the drums, more passionate

Question 50

black cool jazz

Answer 50

said that jazz should be considered an art music and deserves respectability

Question 51

Modern jazz quartet

Answer 51

fancy, played in tuxedos, very classy, based jazz performances on classical compositions, 4 members, together for 40 years

Question 52

fugue

Answer 52

polyphonic composition with a main theme that comes back and is done by many voices

Question 53

third stream idea

Answer 53

idea that classical is one stream, jazz is one stream, and mixing them together creates another one

Question 54

famous hard bop group

Answer 54

jazz messengers, art blakey on drums and horace silver on piano

Question 55

codified hard bop

Answer 55

blues/gospel simplicity + bebop complexity

Question 56

charles mingus

Answer 56

bass player and composer, influenced and was involved in cool jazz, hard bop, and historicist

Question 57

pianist at mintons playhouse and tailored his music to the peopel there

Answer 57

thelonious monk

Question 58

george russell

Answer 58

composer and music theorist, used scales and not chords when improvising

Question 59

concerto

Answer 59

a piece designed to highlight an individual musician

Question 60

a good example of the black middle class

Answer 60

miles davis, father was dental surgeon and politician, grandfather was landowner

Question 61

studdied at juilliard before going to minton's and 52nd street

Answer 61

miles davis

Question 62

covered a lot of territory and did almost everything

Answer 62

miles davis