Jazz

Question 0

What drug became associated with bebop?

Answer 0

Heroin

Question 1

What does Count Basie and Duke Ellington have in common?

Answer 1

Pianists

Question 2

Swing music helped the recording industry recover from what?

Answer 2

The Depression

Question 3

How did Benny Goodman treat black musicians?

Answer 3

He used them as composers and arrangers, and eventually hired several for his band

Question 4

About how many musicians are in a big band?

Answer 4

14-15

Question 5

What is the major difference between a blues chord progression and a typical bebop chord progression?

Answer 5

Bebop chord progressions are more complex

Question 6

What album began the widespread interest in fusion jazz?

Answer 6

Bitches Brew

Question 7

Who plays the trumpet with is trademark growling style?

Answer 7

Blubber Miley

Question 8

Swing rhythm can be roughly defined as what pattern?

Answer 8

Long-short, long-short, long-short, long-short

Question 9

Which style was associated with revolutionary social critique?

Answer 9

Free jazz

Question 10

Dixieland Jazz incorporated improvisation in small breaks called:

Answer 10

Stoptime

Question 11

What was Louis Armstrong known for doing?

Answer 11

Improvising
Singing
Playing the cornet (trumpet)

Question 12

According to Billy Strayhorn, what made Duke Ellington’s sound unique?

Answer 12

He matched the part and the man’s character

Question 13

Dixieland jazz includes what rocking rhythmic style?

Answer 13

Two-beat

Question 14

What was the primary function if swing music?

Answer 14

Dancing

Question 15

What contributed to the end of the swing era?

Answer 15

World War II interrupted much of American life.
There was a recording ban for instrumentalists in 1942.
Some black musicians objected to the minstrel-like characters of some performers like Louis Armstrong.
Black musicians were frustrated with segregated dance halls.
Musicians grew bored with the swing format.

Question 16

How could you describe the chord progressions (harmonic background) of modal jazz?

Answer 16

Open

Question 17

What was Thelonious Monk known for that many of his fellow bepoppers were not?

Answer 17

Composition

Question 18

What was the primary focus of bebop?

Answer 18

Improvisation

Question 19

What kind of singing uses nonsense syllables and is good for improvisation?

Answer 19

Scat

Question 20

What instruments are in atypical bebop group?

Answer 20

Saxophone, trumpet, rhythm section

Question 21

Jazz that focuses on new ways of improvising; emphasis on is on innovation is what?

Answer 21

Avant-garde jazz

Question 22

Which one is a typical format for the performance of a bebop song?

Answer 22

Melody (head), improvised solos, melody

Question 23

What instrument did Dizzy Gillespie play?

Answer 23

Trumpet

Question 24

What did Wynton Marsalis advocate?

Answer 24

A return to basic jazz values, including swing and bebop style

Question 25

Kansas City swing has the most what?

Answer 25

Improvisation

Question 26

The first style of jazz is called:

Answer 26

Dixieland

Question 27

Who is often cited as the leader of the first jazz band?

Answer 27

Buddy Bolden

Question 28

What musical technique did Fletcher Henderson and Don Redman introduce into jazz that became a common technique in the swing era?

Answer 28

Call and response

Question 29

What is not found in Dixieland?

Answer 29

Slide guitar

Question 30

What instrument did Charlie Parker play?

Answer 30

Saxophone

Question 31

Where did bebop musicians perform?

Answer 31

Small after-hours clubs