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One of the first recordings of Charlie Parker features him with which big band?

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Jane McShan

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Which big band did Dizzy get his start?

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Cab Calloway

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Where did early bebop movement take place?

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52nd street

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4
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“Salt Peanuts” has a chord progression that is called?

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Rhythm change

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5
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Who did Bird write “Moose The Mooch” for?

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Drug dealer

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“Manteca” is a combo of what styles of music?

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Afro Cuban and bebop

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Which pianist got electro shock therapy?

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Bud Powell

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Where did Thelonius Monk start as a musician?

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Coleman Hawkins

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9
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Monk was fond of a scale called?

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Whole tone scale

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10
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Lenny Tristano is remembered for his?

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Students

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Before become a pop star crooner, this artist had a successful trio of guitar, bass, and piano

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Nat King Cole

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Which virtuoso pianist led a successful piano trio?

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Oscar Peterson

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What did Ahmad Jamal use more than any other pianist in his era?

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Space

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14
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Where did Miles Davis go to college?

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Juliard

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Where did Davis get his real education?

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52nd street

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What composer/arranger did Miles collaborate with for the money sessions the 1940s?

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Gil Evans

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What was the name of the quartet led by vibraphonist Milt Jackson and pianist John Lewis?

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Modern jazz quartet

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18
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Gerry Mulligan formed a piano-less quartet featuring trumpeter _?

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Chet Baker

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Which pianist had a hit jazz record, that featured the use of odd time signatures?

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Dave Brubeck

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Where did Davis make his big comeback after being a prisoner to his heroin addiction?

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Signed with Columbia after

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21
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Who did Miles play with at the 1955 Newport Jazz Festival?

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Thelonius Monk

22
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Who did Miles hire on tenor sax in the 1950s quintet?

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John Coltrane

23
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The album Milestones brought in alto saxophonist _ to the band.

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Cannonball Aderly

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Davis’ album Kind of Blue, feats. many songs based on one chord. AKA _.

A

Modol jazz

25
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Bill Evans trio played around with the concept of _ _

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Internalized beat

26
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Coltrane wrote a song that proved to be too difficult for pianist Tommy Flanagan. What is the song

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Giant steps

27
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What is a Hammond B3 organ?

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Two rows of keys, tone sliders, foot pedals

28
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What is different about the Leslie speaker?

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Speaker pointed up to come, cone spins sound around room

29
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What unique was did Wes Montgomery played guitar

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Used his thumb

30
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What was Montgomery’s way for developing a solo?

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Single not lines, to playing octaves, chords

31
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Besides standards and originals, what kinds of songs did Wes Montgomery begin recording in the mid to late 1960s?

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Started recording rock and pop songs with improv

32
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Art Blakey led a group that fostered bio and coming musicians for over 30 years. Name the group.

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Jazz messengers

33
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In what way did Charles Mingus engages with many different styles of jazz?

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He was a side man for Armstrong, Ellington, and Parker

34
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What are the lyrics to “Fables of Faubus” about?

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A response to Orville Faubus, who refused to let black students into a white school

35
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Miles Davis’ album ESP, what was the first to feature his new tenor player _.

A

Wayne Shorter

36
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Describe the live repertoire of Miles Davis’ so-called second great quintet

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Play a lot of standards

37
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What was unique about Ornette Coleman’s sax?

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It was plastic

38
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Ornette Coleman’s album Free Jazz featured?

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Double quartet album

39
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In an interview for the 2013 Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy, this pianist explained that there were “many ways to play the piano.”

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Cecil Taylor

40
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Describe the playing of saxophone player Albert Ayler.

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Guttural

41
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Fusion is generally referring to the fusing of jazz and what?

A

Rock

42
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What was the name of Davis’ seminal fusion album in 1970

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Bitches Brew

43
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Describe the music of Davis’ Bitches Brew album

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Like a jam session

44
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What was Herbie Hancock’s first hit record?

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Watermelon man

45
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What was the name of Herbie Hancock’s funk group

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Head hunters

46
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What was the name of Hancock’s hot single from Future Shock, that featured a DJ?

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RockIt

47
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What was the name of Chick Corea’s fusion band in the 1970s?

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Return to Forever

48
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Wayne Shorter and Joe Zawinul led a successful fusion group called _.

A

Weather report

49
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Who was the bassist for Weather Report?

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Jacco Restorus

50
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What was the name of Pat Metheny’s first album?

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Bright size life

51
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Who played bass on the album?

A

Jacco

52
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Metheny is also known for his interview in which he lashed out at smooth jazz artist _.

A

Kenny g

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