Jazz Final Exam

Question 1

What was Charlie Parker’s nickname?

Answer 1

Bird (roadkill)

Question 2

What instrument does Professor Price play?

Answer 2

Piano

Question 3

Who are the members of the modern jazz quartet?

Answer 3

John Lewis, Milt Jackson, Percy Heath, Connie Kay

Question 4

Who are the members of the coltrane classic quartet?

Answer 4

John Coltrane, Mccoy Tyner, Elvin Jones, Jimmy Garrison

Question 5

Smooth jazz is based on the fusion of

Answer 5

jazz and easy listening/R&B

Question 6

What was John Coltrane’s 1964 album?

Answer 6

A Love Supreme

Question 7

Jazz rock fusion is a combination of what two genres?

Answer 7

Jazz and rock

Question 8

What album launched modal jazz?

Answer 8

Kind of Blue

Question 9

Who are the architects of bebop?

Answer 9

Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker

Question 10

Third Stream

Answer 10

Combination of jazz and classical music. A subset of progressive jazz (West Coast) and it was not commercially successful.

Question 11

Did people dance to Bebop?

Answer 11

Yes

Question 12

What syle of jazz had an influence on electronic instruments

Answer 12

Jazz rock fusion

Question 13

Third stream consists of

Answer 13

jazz and classical music

Question 14

Who created the term vocalese?

Answer 14

Eddie Jefferson

Question 15

Who were the three fathers of free jazz?

Answer 15

Eric Dolphy, Ornette Coleman, and John Coltrane.

Question 16

Does Birdland exist?

Answer 16

Yes, it is a jazz club in New York.

Question 17

After the 1960s, all forms of jazz were fusions?

Answer 17

Yes.

Question 18

Which major style did not occur during the 1950s?

Answer 18

Smooth Jazz

Question 19

In the 1940s, did you need a union card to play?

Answer 19

Yes.

Question 20

Were rock musicians influenced by jazz musicians?

Answer 20

Yes

Question 21

What style was the hammond b3 organ?

Answer 21

Organ, drums, guitar. gospel jazz, and was part of hard bop.

Question 22

Who was the drummer whose nickname was klukemop?

Answer 22

Kenny Clark

Question 23

What social movement was free jazz not associated with?

Answer 23

Harlem Renaissance.

Question 24

What instrument did John Coltrane play?

Answer 24

Saxaphone

Question 25

Who was a major innovator?

Answer 25

Miles Davis

Question 26

Which style of jazz is not considered a type of fusion?

Answer 26

Latin Jazz.

Question 27

Miles Davis played the trumpet.

Answer 27

Yes.

Question 28

Progressive jazz is a combination of what types of jazz?

Answer 28

Cool Jazz, Third Stream, and Modal Jazz.

Question 29

Eperanza Spalding is from which era?

Answer 29

Here and Now

Question 30

What were the two major venues for bebop?

Answer 30

Mintons Playhouse and Monroe's.

Question 31

What did they do in those places?

Answer 31

Jam sessions.

Question 32

Genres of jazz in chronological order. Can you do this?

Answer 32

Yes!

Question 33

Was latin jazz present before the 1940s?

Answer 33

Yes!

Question 34

Who are the two people on top of every slide?

Answer 34

Mary Lou Williams and Coltrane!

Question 35

What are the other names for free jazz?

Answer 35

Avant-Garde, Fire Music, Out Music, New Thing

Question 36

Bebop was a new genre that was based on old formations.

Answer 36

True.

Question 37

Bebop was an attempt by black musicians to create something that white people couldnt play.

Answer 37

False.

Question 38

After 1935, there are a lot of bands that are integrated.

Answer 38

True.

Question 39

What album gave rise to cool jazz?

Answer 39

Birth of the Cool.

Question 40

What Miles Davis Album was Third Stream?

Answer 40

Sketches of Spain

Question 41

Cool Jazz and Third Stream emphasized the composer as opposed to the improviser or virtuoso.

Answer 41

Yes!

Question 42

Eddie Jefferson came up with the term

Answer 42

Vocalese.

Question 43

Which style incorporated lots of electronics into the music?

Answer 43

Jazz Rock Fusion.

Question 44

Jazz Rock Fusion and the late 1960s:

Answer 44

Tony Williams - Lifetime Chick Corea - Return to Forever/ My Spanish Heart John McLaughlin - Mahavishnu Orchestra Joe Zawinul and Wayne Shorter - Weather Report Herbie Hancock - Headhunters

Question 45

Important albums in Jazz Rock Fusion:

Answer 45

``` Bitches Brew - MD The Inner Mounting Flame - Mahavishnu Orchestra Herbie Hancock - Headhunters My Spanish Heart - Chick Corea Weather Report - Heavy Weather ```

Question 46

Consumer base of smooth jazz was

Answer 46

middle aged professionals who commuted, and who host social gatherings.

Question 47

Musicians from Smooth Jazz

Answer 47

Gover Washington Jr. - Mister Magic Geroge Benson - On Broadway Fourplay - After the Dance George Duke - Sweet Baby

Question 48

Musicians and songs from Jazz Hip Hop:

Answer 48

``` Herbie Hancock - Rockit Miles Davis - Chocolate Chip Buckshot Le Funque (Brandon Marsalis Jason Moran - Planet Rock Stetasonic - Talkin all that jazz Gang Starr - Jazz Thing Tribe Called Quest - Jazz we've got. Guru's - Loungin Hidden Beach ```

Question 49

Omar Sosa

Answer 49

Here and Now

Question 50

Robert Glasper

Answer 50

Here and Now

Question 51

Diana Krall

Answer 51

Here and Now

Question 52

Gregory Porter

Answer 52

Here and Now

Question 53

Roy Hargrove

Answer 53

Here and Now

Question 54

Jonathan Butler and Elan Trotman

Answer 54

Here and Now

Question 55

Stetasonic

Answer 55

Talking all that jazz - Jazz Hip Hop

Question 56

Gang Starr

Answer 56

Jazz Thing - Jazz Hip Hop

Question 57

Tribe Called Quest

Answer 57

Jazz Hip Hop

Question 58

Guru's

Answer 58

Loungin- Jazz Hip Hop

Question 59

Jason Moran

Answer 59

Planet Rock - Jazz Hip Hop

Question 60

Brandon Marsalis

Answer 60

Jazz Hip Hop

Question 61

Digable Planets

Answer 61

Jazz Hip Hop

Question 62

George Benson

Answer 62

Smooth Jazz

Question 63

Fourplay

Answer 63

Smooth Jazz

Question 64

George Duke

Answer 64

Smooth Jazz

Question 65

Hard Bop is what coast?

Answer 65

East coast = hard bop.