Final Exam Listenings

Question 1

Take the ‘A’ Train

Answer 1

Duke Ellington

Swing

Question 2

Maple Leaf Rag

Answer 2

Scott Joplin

Ragtime

Question 3

Down the Dirt Road Blues

Answer 3

Charley Patton

Country Blues

Question 4

Lost Your Head Blues

Answer 4

Bessie Smith

Vaudeville Blues

Question 5

Tiger Rag

Answer 5

Original Dixieland Jazz Band

New Orleans/Early Jazz

Question 6

Dippermouth Blues

Answer 6

Joe King Oliver and Louis Armstrong

New Orleans/Early Jazz

Question 7

Black Bottom Stomp

Answer 7

Jelly Roll Morton

New Orleans/Early Jazz

Question 8

Cake Walking Babies From Home

Answer 8

Louis Armstrong and Sidney Bechet

New Orleans/Early Jazz

Question 9

Potato Head Blues

Answer 9

Louis Armstrong

New Orleans/Early Jazz

Question 10

West End Blues

Answer 10

Louis Armstrong

New Orleans/Early Jazz

Question 11

Singin’ the Blues

Answer 11

Frankie Trumbauer and Bix Beiderbecke

New Orleans/Early Jazz

Question 12

Black and Tan Fantasy

Answer 12

Duke Ellington

Swing

Question 13

Handful of Keys

Answer 13

Fats Waller

Harlem Stride piano

Question 14

Wrappin’ It Up

Answer 14

Fletcher Henderson

Swing

Question 15

Taxi War Dance

Answer 15

Count Basie

Swing

Question 16

Cotton Tail

Answer 16

Duke Ellington

Swing

Question 17

Ko-Ko

Answer 17

Duke Ellington

Swing

Question 18

Don’t Be That Way

Answer 18

Benny Goodman

Swing

Question 19

Cherokee

Answer 19

Charlie Barnet

Swing

Question 20

Yancey Special

Answer 20

Meade “Lux” Lewis

Boogie Woogie piano

Question 21

Seven Come Eleven

Answer 21

Charlie Christian and Benny Goodman

Small Band Swing

Question 22

Body and Soul

Answer 22

Coleman Hawkins

Swing

Question 23

Lester Leaps In

Answer 23

Lester Young

Swing

Question 24

Rockin’ Chair

Answer 24

Gene Krupa and Roy Eldridge

Swing

Question 25

Strange Fruit

Answer 25

Billie Holiday

Swing era vocal

Question 26

I Wished On the Moon

Answer 26

Billie Holiday and Teddy Wilson

Swing era vocal

Question 27

Too Marvelous For Words

Answer 27

Art Tatum

Harlem Stride piano

Question 28

Shaw Nuff

Answer 28

Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker

Bebop

Question 29

Koko

Answer 29

Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker

Bebop

Question 30

I Should Care

Answer 30

Thelonious Monk

Bebop

Question 31

Night in Tunisia

Answer 31

Bud Powell

Bebop

Question 32

Moon Dreams

Answer 32

Miles Davis
1950s jazz (cool)

Question 33

I Could Write a Book

Answer 33

Miles Davis

1950s jazz

Question 34

Blue ‘n’ Boogie

Answer 34

Miles Davis
1950s jazz (hard bop)

Question 35

Senor Blues

Answer 35

Horace Silver
1950s jazz (hard bop)

Question 36

Bernie’s Tune

Answer 36

Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker
1950s jazz (cool)

Question 37

Concorde

Answer 37

Modern Jazz Quartet
1950s jazz (cool or third stream)

Question 38

Gertrude’s Bounce

Answer 38

Max Roach and Clifford Brown
1950s jazz (hard bop)

Question 39

Boogie Stop Shuffle

Answer 39

Charles Mingus
1950s jazz (hard bop)

Question 40

The Meaning of the Blues/Lament

Answer 40

Miles Davis and Gil Evans
1950s jazz (cool)

Question 41

So What

Answer 41

Miles Davis
1950s jazz (modal)

Question 42

Lonely Woman

Answer 42

Ornette Coleman

Free Jazz

Question 43

Tales (8 Whisps)

Answer 43

Cecil Taylor

Free Jazz

Question 44

Jupiter

Answer 44

John Coltrane

Free Jazz

Question 45

Giant Steps

Answer 45

John Coltrane

1950s jazz

Question 46

Gingerbread Boy

Answer 46

Miles Davis

1960s jazz

Question 47

Gloria’s Step

Answer 47

Bill Evans

1960s jazz

Question 48

Resolution

Answer 48

John Coltrane
1960s jazz (modal)