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The influence of boogie-woogie is quite apparent in which style?

Rock

Which big band was especially noted for the unique tightness of its rhythm section?

Count Basie

Which saxophonist known for his relaxed style, was featured with the Count Basie band and recorded with Billie Holiday?

Lester Young

Who was closely associated with Duke Ellington and collaborated with him on many compositions?

Billy Strayhorn

Which saxophonist, who played Fletcher Henderson in the 20's became the first major Jazz star on his instrument?

Coleman Hawkins

Which artist is noted for making jazz a soloist's art form?

Louis Armstrong

What piano style imitated the sound of three guitars?

Boogie-woogie

How many different sections or themes are in a rag?

Four

How long is one chorus of the blues?

12 measures

The most prolific composer of ragtime music was:

Scott Joplin

Name three ways in which stride style piano is different from Ragtime.

Stride is highly rythmic

In the earliest years of his career Duke Ellington was known primarliy as a:

Pianist

The second level of musical perception is

The expressive plane

Name the artist who is considered to be the major influence on jazz performers before 1940.

Louis Armstrong

What is the musical term for number of beats in a bar?

Meter

The Austin High Gang included:

Gene Krupa and Tommy Dorsey

Identify the noted artist from New Orleans who was a child prodigy, played clarinet and soprano saxophone, and performed extensively in europe.

Sydney Bechet

A short repeated musical phrase is called a:

Riff

"...was possibly the best, surely the most versatile piano player in the history of jazz."

Art Tatum

Who was the first cornet player in New Orleans to be noted for his big sound and expressive interpretation of marching band repertoire?

Buddy Bolden

Identify the artist who began her career as a blues singer and become one of the top earning pop performers on Broadway and in Hollywood?

Ethel Waters

Identify the artist who told his grandmother he was working as a "night watchman" when he was actually playing in Storyville, and is noted for being the first musician to write down jazz.

Jelly Roll Morton

A New Orleans or Chicago style ensemble chorus utilizes which type of harmonic construction?

Horizontal

The primary chords in a blues progression are:

I, IV, V

We associate the Austin High Gang with what city?

Chicago

The third level of musical perception is

The sheerly musical plane, or Technical

Which factor is not considered to be important in ending the Swing era?

The growth of bop

Name the person, extremely committed to racial integration in jazz, who was the first to record Billie Holiday, Count Basie and Bob Dylan?

John Hammond

The work of which section of Count Basie's band did the most to define his sound?

The rhythm section

The primary function of the clarinet in a New Orleans style band is to:

Play an obligato to the melody

The first level of musical perception mentioned in the Aaron Copland essay is

The sensuous plane, or Physical

Besides drums, what instruments were used in the rhythm section of a typical New Orleans jazz band?

Tuba

Section of New Orleans where early jazz flourished

Storyville

Bix Beiderbecke was:

The first "cool" cornetist

Name four ways in which Chicago style jazz is different from New Orleans style.

Saxophone was added

Which instrument would not be found in the front line of a traditional New Orleans band?

Saxophone

Boogie-woogie always has:

Ostinato in the left hand

Name the six elements of jazz.

: blues, syncopation, swing and creative freedom. Improvisation

The most important arranger in the early years of the Swing era was:

Fletcher Henderson

Where did the type of harmony brought into the beginings of jazz originate?

Europe

Give two reasons why musicians left New Orleans around 1920.

The Navy closed Storyville.

Which piano style was the least influenced by blues?

Ragtime

Name the band leader that brought Louis Armstrong to Chicago.

Joe "King" Oliver

Which drummer, who was known as the "First King of Swing", was the first band leader to showcase young Ella Fitzgerald?

Chick Webb

Which band leader/composer is remember for his large (over ten minutes) works?

Duke Ellington

Which of the following patterns represents the lyric form of blues?

AAB

Ragtime is:

Entirely composed

A "shout" chorus in a big band arrangement is an example of which type of harmonic construction (texture)?

Vertical

Ragtime changed the rhythmic feeling of dixieland jazz from:

Four beat to two beat

Other than New York City, the most important city for swing band activity was:

Kansas City

Scat singing is:

Vocal improvisation

Billie Holiday

Big band blues singer from Swing era

Jimmy Rushing

Recorded the first Boogie-woogie

Pine-top Smith

Led one of the earliest New Orleans marching bands

Buddy Bolden

Meter of early New Orleans style

Flat four

Period in which individual solos started to become important

Chicago style

Stride pianist

Fats Waller

The "King of Jazz"

Paul Whiteman

First famous jazz trombonist

Kid Ory

Exceptional swing era trumpet player

Roy Eldridge

Benny Goodman's drummer

Gene Krupa

Led the Kansas City band that was eventually led by Count Basie

Benny Moton

Band leader that forced the issue of racial integration

Benny Goodman

Band leader known for "personalized" arranging

Duke Ellington

First jazz musician to play amplified guitar

Charlie Christian

"Father" of cool saxophone

Lester Young

Era associated with marching bands

Early N.O. Dixieland

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