Exam 3: Modern Jazz

Question 1

What was the birthplace of bebop?

Answer 1

Minton’s Playhouse in Manhatten

Question 2

Kenny Clark’s two innovations to Bebop:

Answer 2

1. pulse on ride cymbal…shimmering sound
2. Dropping bombs with bass drum

Question 3

Comping

Answer 3

to create an accompaniment to a tune using chords and rhythms

Question 4

True or False: Drums, piano, and bass all changed with the bebop revolution.

Answer 4

False…bass did not change at all. It’s still the timekeeper.

Question 5

Attributes of bebop

Answer 5

Complex, dissonant harmonies (tritone & flat fifth)
Comping on the piano
Dropping bombs and ride cymbal on the drums

Question 6

What helped to grow the bebop movement?

Answer 6

Black musicians tired of racism were able to freely enjoy making music!

Question 7

What was Charlie Parker’s instrument?

Answer 7

alto saxophone

Question 8

Which jazz musicians helped to innovate woodshedding when he disappeared into the Ozarks and mastered every key?

Answer 8

Charlie Parker

Question 9

What substance controlled Parker’s life?

Answer 9

Heroin

Question 10

Charlie Parker started out as a dishwasher in a restaurant that featured ___ ______

Answer 10

Art Tatum

Question 11

Whose territory band did Charlie Parker join? Where?

Answer 11

Jay MacShann
Kansas City

Question 12

What was Charlie Parker known for?

Answer 12

Supercharged rhythm & incredible speed

Question 13

Dizzy Gillespie played the ______

Answer 13

trumpet

Question 14

Dizzy played with ___ ______ until he was wrongly accused of launching a spitball and was fired.

Answer 14

Cab Calloway

Question 15

Describe Dizzy’s personality

Answer 15

Fiery temperament
Wicked sense of humor
Unpredictable
Practical jokes

Question 16

Which jazz musician was self-taught, had bad embouchure technique, and raised Bebop?

Answer 16

Dizzy Gillespie

Question 17

Example of songs featuring Dizzy Gillespie

Answer 17

Salt Peanuts, A Night in Tunisia

Question 18

Bebop was born in _____ and nurtured on ______

Answer 18

Harlem; 52nd street

Question 19

_______ was the first big band to feature bebop

Answer 19

Billy Eckstine

Question 20

Dizzy inspired the ____-_____ ____ movement, setting the stage for salsa and bossa nova

Answer 20

Afro-Cuban jazz

Question 21

Describe Dizzy’s stage persona

Answer 21

Goatee
Puffed cheeks
Crowd pleaser
Introduced musicians to each other

Question 22

Who was the finest pianist of the bebop generation?

Answer 22

Bud Powell

Question 23

Bud Powell was from _____

Answer 23

NYC

Question 24

True or False: Bud Powell came from a family of musicians, studying the likes of Bach and Chopin.

Answer 24

True

Question 25

What happened to Bud Powell while he was touring with Cootie Williams?

Answer 25

He was unjustly beaten by the police in Philadelphia, leading to crippling headaches and epilepsy.

Question 26

Example of Bud Powell's playing

Answer 26

Tempus Fugue-It

Question 27

Who was Dexter Gordon?

Answer 27

Bebop tenor saxophonist who lived the California life (film, heroin, racial discrimination)

Question 28

Who was the first to make a million dollars in jazz?

Answer 28

Norman Granz

Question 29

True or false: Norman Granz was all for segregation.

Answer 29

False. Rather, he encouraged integrated bands AND audiences

Question 30

Cool jazz was primarily in the east/west coast

Answer 30

Played in the west coast by musicians from the east coast, lol

Question 31

Hot jazz

Answer 31

Aggressive rhythms/improv heavy timbre vibrato evocative blues scales overt expressiveness

Question 32

Cool jazz

Answer 32

Sophisticated harmonies melodic calm restrained timbre limited vibrato stable dynamics tempered blues

Question 33

True or False: In Birth of the Cool, Miles Davis had a balanced relationship between improvisation and composition

Answer 33

True

Question 34

The Miles Davis Nonet was ______ and ______

Answer 34

pan-generational; inter-racial

Question 35

What is the name of the longest-running chamber group?

Answer 35

Modern Jazz Quartet

Question 36

According to John Lewis, ______ and blues were compatible.

Answer 36

Bach

Question 37

Hard bop was in the east/west coast

Answer 37

East

Question 38

Hard bop

Answer 38

Heavy Dark Extended improv

Question 39

Art Blakey used _____ _____ to support soloists on his drums

Answer 39

Press rolls

Question 40

Example of Art Blakey song

Answer 40

Moanin

Question 41

Horace Silver was a _____

Answer 41

pianist

Question 42

Example of Horace Silver song

Answer 42

Song for my Father

Question 43

Who helped to innovate time signature changes in jazz?

Answer 43

Dave Brubeck

Question 44

Clifford Brown was a ____ soloist in the hard bop movement

Answer 44

Trumpet

Question 45

Sonny Rollins was a _____ soloist in avant-garde among other genres

Answer 45

tenor saxophone

Question 46

Wes Montgomery played the _______

Answer 46

electric guitar

Question 47

Describe the style of Thelonious Monk

Answer 47

Eccentric, difficult, quirky rhythms, progressive harmonies

Question 48

Charles Mingus was a ____

Answer 48

bassist (slap da bass)

Question 49

_______ wrote grand tone poems, suites, jazz standards, parodies, and threnodies while leading his cutting-edge Jazz Workshop and maintaining his stature as one of the greatest bass players of all time

Answer 49

Charles Mingus

Question 50

Who headed up the Old Bottle, New Wine project?

Answer 50

Gil Evans

Question 51

_______ was not an instrumentalist, but a bandleader and composer who wrote the rules for modal jazz

Answer 51

George Russell