Lesson 12 Jazz Part 2 - Review Flashcards
One important element of jazz is improvisation, which means…
music played spontaneously, not learned in advance.
While all types of classical music are played from notated music, jazz is typically played from…
a lead sheet, which has the chords, the basic rhythmic pattern and tempo, and the main melody. The musicians use this framework to play somewhat freely.
Jazz musicians playing in a group balance intense focus on their instruments with…
connecting with each other.
Jazz musicians playing in a group take turns playing solos, which are almost always…
improvised.
Jazz branched out from New Orleans to…
Chicago, St. Louis, and New York City.
What decade is known as the Jazz Age?
The 1920s
Legendary jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald started her carreer at…
the Apollo Theater in Harlem.
Who was the famous jazz trumpeter who started his career in the 1920s?
Louis Armstrong
Popular jazz groups of the 1930s included…
Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, and Glenn Miller and their bands/orchestras. Famous works included “Take the A Train.”
In jazz, the 1940s saw the growth of…
big band and swing. Famous works included dance tunes such as “Sing, Sing, Sing.”
What type of jazz followed the big band/swing era and featured fast tempos, complex chords, instrumental virtuosity, and lots of improvisation?
Bebop
Who were some famous bebop jazz musicians?
- trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie
- saxophonist John Coltrane
- drummer Art Blakey
- pianist Thelonious Monk
- ‹saxophone player, Charlie Parker
