Music History - Jazz
Quiz
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What city is the birthplace of Jazz |
New Orleans |
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Where were slaves allowed to congregate and perform traditional dances from their African homelands though most of the 19th century |
Congo Square |
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Which previous established musical groups became the 1st Jazz units in New Orleans |
The Marching Band |
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The St. Louis style of ragtime was led by what 2 black composers |
Scott Joplin and W.C. Handy |
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What was Storyville |
A neighborhood set aside for brothels and gambling |
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What instrument replaced the tuba when Jazz moved indoors |
Double Bass |
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What Instrument replaced the banjo when Jazz moved indoors |
Piano |
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Who was the ragtime-trained New Orleans pianist who became the 1st significant composer of Jazz |
Jelly Roll Morton |
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Who was the 1st significant Jazz soloist the was internationally recognized |
Louis Armstrong |
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How did the chicago style differ from the New Orleans style |
Chicago had large individual solo sections, New Orleans was wall-to-wall collective improvising |
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New York's James P. Johnson created a new swinging style of ragtime called |
Stride |
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Who was the 1st significant White Jazz Musician |
Bix Beiderbecke |
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In what Jazz style era did band need a musical arranger and jazz musicians had to be able to read music |
Big band/Swing |
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What was the standard instrumentation of the swing orchestra |
5 sax, 4 trom, 4 trum, piano, guitar, double bass, drums |
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Who was the Harlem Renaissance pianist and bandleader the broacasted from the cotton club |
Duke Ellington |
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The Inventor of Swing/featured Louis Armstrong |
Fletcher Henderson |
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What Kansas City swing band was known 4 its strong anchoring in the blues |
Basie Band |
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When did big band become a hit 2 the public |
1935 |
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What Jazz artist popularized the electric guitar while playing with Benny Goodman |
Charlie Christian |
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Which jazz singer was influenced by Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong during her youth and was discovered in New York City by A&R guru John Hammond |
Billie Holiday |
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Bebop was born and developed in what city |
New York/Harlem |
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What was Dizzy Gillespie's instrument of expertise |
Trumpet |
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What was Charlie Bird Parker's Instrument of expertise |
Alto Sax |
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What was Thelonious Monk's Instrument of expertise |
Piano |
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Which Band leader fused latin arrangements with Bebop in his jazz big band |
Tito Puente |
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Which Band leader fused latin arrangements with Bebop in his jazz big band |
Tito Puente |
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What was Miles Davis' Instrument of expertise |
Trumpet |
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What west coast pianist/bandleader fused 20th century orchestral elements to jazz, playing in odd time signatures like 5/4 and 9/8 |
Dave Brubeck |
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Miles Davis' landmark album |
The Birth Of The Cool |
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Joao Gilberto recorded the music of which Brazilian songwriter |
Jobim |
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What Artist 1st successfully brought the modal approach to jazz |
Miles Davis |
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What Jazz saxophonist released the highly influential Free jazz album in 1960 |
Ornette Coleman |
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What saxophonist pushed the art of improvision to new standards with the Giant Steps and A Love Supreme albums |
John Coltrane |
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What saxophonist pushed the art of improvision to new standards with the Giant Steps and A Love Supreme albums |
John Coltrane |
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Which 1969 album fused rock, funk, and jazz 2 create fusion |
Bitches Brew |
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Jazz Styles |
New Orleans Hot Jazz |