MIDTERM 1 - PEOPLE

Question 1

Robert Johnson

Answer 1

Guitar and singing

Folk/country Blues

Question 2

Bessie Smith

Answer 2

Singing

Urban blues

Question 3

Louis Armstrong

Answer 3

Cornet/scat
Bandleader: The Hot Five which then expended to Hot Seven
NO Jazz

Question 4

Sidney Bechet

Answer 4

Clarinetist

NO Jazz

Question 5

Bix Beiderbecke

Answer 5

Cornet
Joined The Wolverines
Joined Frankie Trumbauer’s band
Chicago Jazz

Question 6

Jelly Roll Morton

Answer 6

Piano
Stride
Jelly Roll Morton and His Red Hot Peppers

Question 7

Earl “Fatha” Hines

Answer 7

Piano

Stride

Question 8

Art Tatum

Answer 8

Piano

Stride

Question 9

Fletcher Henderson

Answer 9

Bandleader/Piano

Big Band/Swing

Question 10

Benny Goodman

Answer 10

Clarinetist
Bandleader: Benny Goodman Orchestra
Swing

Question 11

Duke Ellington

Answer 11

Piano
Bandleader: Duke Ellington Cotton Club Orchestra
Swing

Question 12

Count Basie

Answer 12

Piano
Bandleader: Count Basie Orchestra
Kansas City Big Band Style (blues based)

Question 13

Coleman Hawkins

Answer 13

Tenor Sax

Bandleader: Coleman Hawkins Orchestra

Question 14

Lester Young

Answer 14

Tenor Sax

Swing

Question 15

Django Reinhardt

Answer 15

Banjo/guitar

Swing

Question 16

Mary Lou Williams

Answer 16

Piano
Joined Andy Kirk’s 12 Clouds of Joy
Swing

Question 17

Ella Fitzgerald

Answer 17

Singing/scat singing

Swing

Question 18

Lil Hardin Armstrong

Answer 18

Piano
Joined Louis Armstrong’s Hot Seven
NO Jazz

Question 19

Lionel Hampton

Answer 19

Vibraphonist
Joined Benny Goodman Sextet
Swing