Jazz Test 4

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____ ______ started on trumpet but switched to guitar b/c of the Beatles

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Pat Metheny

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_____ _____ went to school at Miami, and after a semester was offered a job to teach there

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Pat Methney

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_____ _____ also taught at Berklee College, making him the youngest to teach there

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Pat Methney

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While teaching at Berklee, Pat Methney recorded ____ ______ _____, which contained a breezy, listener friendly sound

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Bright Size Life

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Pat Methney developed a unique new sound called _____ _____, that suggested the folk songs of the American West

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Midwestern lyricism

Front 6

____ _____ developed the Roland GR300 guitar synthesizer

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Pat Methney

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____ _____ was a saxophonists who was a sideman on more than 900 jazz and pop recordings

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Micheal Brecker

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the ____ ______ was one of the more innovative jazz/rock/funk groups of the 70's

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Brecker Brothers

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___ ____ was the leading fusion band in the early 80s, producing music that was experimental, imaginative, and demanding to play

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Steps Ahead

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______ used the EWI

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Brecker

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Brecker used the ____, which was a breath-controlled synthesizer controller that opened up new creative horizons for the sax

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EWI

Front 12

Brecker's grammy winning album, ____ _____ ____ ___ _____, featured outstanding support by many known musicians

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Don't Try This at Home

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Brecker's album, _____, was completed 2 weeks before his death due to leukemia

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Pilgrimage

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______'s funeral service was held at NY's City's Town Hall and featured performances by many well known musicians

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Breckers

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_____ _____ sound fused jazz, the blues, distortion, and other rock-oriented effects

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John Scofield

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John Scofield released ____ ____, one of the decade's finest fusion albums

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Blue Matter

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Alto Player _____ _____ was a member of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, and also worked with other rock artists

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David Sanborn

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the _________ established themselves as a tight-knit funk/R&B/bop group with strong playing and well-conceived original compositions

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Yellowjackets

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Ornette Coleman's group, _____ _____, entered into the world of FUSION

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Prime Time

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Coleman used the word ______ to describe his improvisations

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Harmolodics

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____ ____ used harmoldics to describe his improvisations

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Ornette Coleman

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____ ______ called his brand of avant garde jazz M Base, which is a concept of how to create modern music

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Steve Coleman

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Steve Coleman called his brand of avant garde jazz _____, which is a concept of how to create modern music

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M-Base

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Saxophonist, ____ ____, was in the M-Base camp, and graduated from Berklee College

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Greg Osby

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The M-Base artist to achieve the widest recognition is vocalist __________ ___________, who sang everything from folk to funk

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Cassandra Wilson

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T/F

The World Saxophone Quartet have NO drummer

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TRUE

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The ____ ____ ____ marches to the beat of a diferent drummer, but have NO drummer

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World Saxophone Quartet

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The ____ ____ _____ was an avant-garde improvisational band with NO rhythm section

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World Saxophone Quarter

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After he came out of retirement, he sold out stadiums and arenas across Europe

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Miles Davis

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"San Lorenzo"

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Pat Metheny Group

Front 31

San Lorenzo is from the album _____

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Travels

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San Lorenzo was a _______ album, and is a LIVE CONCERT CD

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fusion

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"Itsbynne Reel"

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Michael Brecker

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Itsbynne Reel is from the album ____ _____ ____ ____ ____

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Don't try this at home

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"Strange Fruit"

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Cassandra Wilson

Front 36

Strange Fruit is from the album _____ _____ _____

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New Moon Daughter

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_______ ______ opened the Knitting Factory in New York

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Michael Dorf

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_____ _____ was influenced by his mothers, fathers, brothers, and Carl Stalling's music styles

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John Zorn

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_____ _____ was influenced by Carl Stalling's "visual logic of screen action rather than the traditional rules of musical form"

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John Zorn

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John Zorn used a style called _____ ____, which is a method of composing that involves stringing together a number of seemingly unrelated musical snippets into a complete composition

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jump-cut

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____ _____ had a couple of project bands called Naked City (rock/jazz band) and Masada (4 piece jazz band)

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John Zorn

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John Zorn's album, _____ ____, was a 26 track album that was "jump-cutting collage of two or three minute bursts"

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Naked City

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John Zorn founded _______, a record label dedicated to advant-garde and experimental music, which now has over 400 albums

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Tzadik

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John Zorn opeend ___ ______, a not-for-profit performance space center in NY

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The Stone

Front 45

______ _____ is an in-demand session guitar player, who was a replacement for ECM records and was a fixture in the Knitting Factory

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Bill Frisell

Front 46

_____ _____ grew up in NY, went to school in Spain, then went to Berklee College, then returned to NY to study with Carmine Caruso

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Dave Douglas

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_____ ____ was writing music for the various groups he performed with, as well as performing with them

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Dave Douglas

Front 48

Dave Douglas's group, _____ ____, used an electric instrumental makeup, and was an improvised classic group

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Parallel Worlds

Front 49

Dave Douglas's group, ____ _____, was a group with the purpose of melding jazz and Balkan music

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Tiny Bell

Front 50

_____ ___ also had other groups called Charms of the Night Sky, Witness, and Sanctuary

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Dave Douglas

Front 51

Dave Douglas's album, ____ _____, were electronically manipulated after the sessions were completed, to create a sense of flow, of fluency that live bands get but iwth additional freedom of being able to really work the electronics in ways that their technology was created for

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Freak In

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Composer/keyboardist ____ _____, has led a number of experimental groups, and led the NY Composers Orchestra, a workshop for composers

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Wayne Horvitz

Front 53

Electric Harpist ___ ____, whose improvised works often extend outside the world of even an extended defintion of jazz

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Zeena Parkins

Front 54

_______ ________ ____ ______ was a jam band that was right out of the Grateful Dead playbook who used inprovisation with funk and hip-hop beats, with an emphasis on deep grooves, turntables, laptops, and remixes

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Medeski, Martin and Wood

Front 55

___ _____ was a dreadlock African American who played the clarinet who did thing his own way, and often used humor

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Don Byron

Front 56

Don Byron's album, _____ ____ ___ ___ _____ ___ _____ _____, didnt think it would be as popular as it was, used klezmer-the Yiddish music of 19th century Europe

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Don Byron plays the Music of Mickey Katz

Front 57

Big band, ____ ____, was a trumpeter who played in an orchestra that was noted for combining influences from Indian music, odd time signatures, and unusual instrumentation, and used electric instruments

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Don Ellis

Front 58

______ ______ ______ ____ _____ debuted as a temporary filler at NY's Village VAnguard, was a big band, and was known for its hard-swinging yet distinctively orchestral sound

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Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra

Front 59

The ____ ____ _____, led by Schneider was the most important of the new big bands and played at the Greenwich Village Club Visiones

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Maria Schneider Orchestra

Front 60

Maria Schneider Orchestra's album, ______, is a tribute to Schneider's mentor Gil Evans, and displays her ability to write beautifully Grammy Nominations

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Evanescence

Front 61

___ ____ was a saxophonists who helped define the new mainstream direction for jazz, saying playing jazz is all about being attentive to the music's history while creating your own history along the way

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Joe Lovano

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___ ____ started playing in his dad's record by a teen, and began working the chitlin circuit

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Joe Lovano

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____ ____ was a contemporary jazz player who developd a risk-taking approach to improvisation and an edgy sound that is unique

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Kenny Garrett

Front 64

Kenny Garrett's album, _____ ___ ____ ___ _____ _____, he interprets the music of Coltrane with a band that includes guitarist Pat Metheny, and won the Down Beat Reader's Poll Album of the Year

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Pursuance: The Music of John Coltrane

Front 65

___ ____ played his first jazz gig at 13 in South Carolina, and studied at the New School and the Manhattan School of Music, and was an inventive and versatile saxophone player

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Chris Potter

Front 66

"Hackensack"

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Bill Frisell

Front 67

Hackensack is off the album _______ ___ ____

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Lookout for Hope

Front 68

"Shards"

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Dave Douglas Tiny Bell Trio

Front 69

Shards is off the album _____ _____ ____

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Tiny Bell Trio

Front 70

"Uncle Chubb"

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Medeski, Martin, & Wood

Front 71

Uncle Chubb is off the album _____ ____ __ _____

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Notes From the Underground

Front 72

"Wyrgly"

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Maria Schneider Orchestra

Front 73

Wyrgly is off the album ______

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Evanescence

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"Fishy"

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Chris Potter

Front 75

Fishy is off the album ______

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Vertigo

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______ _____ founds his label Greenleaf Music

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Dave Douglas

Front 77

___ _____ is a filmaker who made a public tv documentary in 2001 about jazz

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Ken Burns

Front 78

_____ ____ is a pianists who is ambidextrous and often switches the traditional roles of the left and right hands. He also employs complex polyrhythms,and is comfortable playing in odd meters

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Brad Mehldau

Front 79

Brad Mehldau's 5 album ____ _____ ___ ____ series

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Art of the Trio

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_____ _____ was a pianists in the Bad Plus trio

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Ethan Iverson

Front 81

___ ____ ____ was a trio who covered rock songs, and first covered "Smells Like Teen Spirit"

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The Bad Plus

Front 82

___ ______ fused jazz from his Indian heritage into a highly original style. He received his degree from Yale and Cal-Berkely

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Vijay Iyer

Front 83

Vijay Iyer's album _ _____ ______ is a collaboration with poet-hiphop artist Mike Ladd, and is a genre-defying commentary on post 9/11 America

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In What Language?

Front 84

______ ___ attended Manhattan School of music and employs a number of unusual concepts, including the mimicking of an artist's monologue on piano

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Jason Moran

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___ ______ is known for his wordless vocal lines

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Ben Monder

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Ben Monder is known for his _______ _____ lines, which is a written vocal line sung without words, using instead simple monosyllabic "oohs" or "aahs"

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Wordless Vocal

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____ ____ likes wordless vocals, but supplies them himself as a doubling to his guitar solos, and sees them as an integral part of his sound.

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Kurt Rosenwinkel

Front 88

Omaha native ____ ____, has always had the blues be a primary source of inspiration around his guitar playing.

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Dave Stryker

Front 89

________ _________ ____ is a hard blowing post-bop quartet co-led by alto player Steve Slagle

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Stryker/Slagle Band

Front 90

Canadian ___ ______ won the Juno Award

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Ingrid Jensen

Front 91

____ _____ made her recording debut on the Atlantic subsidiary Wea, and won the MacArthur Fellows Genius Award

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Regina Carter

Front 92

____ ____ _____ started playing the drums at age 7, and received a scholorship to Berklee College at age 11, and drummed on the Arsenio Hall Show

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Terri Lyne Carrington

Front 93

_____ _____ is the poster child for this issue of redefining jazz and pop

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Norah Jones

Front 94

_____ _______ soft, wistful singing style and soulful piano playing transforms non-jazz tunes into jazz or something jazz-like

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Norah Jones

Front 95

Norah Jones's album ____ ____ ____ ____ won 5 Grammy Awards and sold nearly 20 million copies

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Come Away With Me

Front 96

Before Jones, the most recent jazz singer to achieve pop-like record sales was Canadian _____ _____

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Diana Krall

Front 97

____ _____ is an exceptional scat singer and swings as hard as any bebopper. Her career took off when a DJ got her record, and ended up forwarding it to the president of Concord Records, who personally signed her immediately

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Karrin Allyson

Front 98

_____ _____ is known as "oldschool" , and is a master at vocalese and expanding on the art of scat singing. H'es also known for singing jazz

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Kurt Elling

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Kurt Elling is known for his _____, a technique of composing lyrics to fit existing recorded jazz improvised solos or instrumental arrangements

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vocalese

Front 100

Kurt Elling's adventurous album, ____ _ _____, recorded at the famouse Green Mill Restaurant, evokes his divinity school training with an extended version of the standard "my foolish heart"

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Live in Chicago

Front 101

___ _____ is an electric piano player in which the DJ/producer acts as a co-composer of sorts by freely restructuring the music either while or after is was recorded

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Craig Taborn

Front 102

_____ _____ is one of the most innovative electronic experimenters who was hired to lead Thirsty Ear Records' new subsidiary label Blue Series

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Matthew Shipp

Front 103

Matthew Shipp leads Thirsty Ear Records' label ____ ______

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Blue Series

Front 104

Norwegian bassist _____ ____ adds that in NORDIC jazz, "the sound is very important, the space in the music is very important", but perhaps what sets it apart most from American jazz is that it is "not how clever you can play your instrument, how fast you can play or how impressive you could be but how expresseive you are"

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Arild Anderson

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____ ____, Europe's most famous jazz musician, has a style that exhibits influences form Americans Coltrane and Albert Ayler

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Jan Garbarek

Front 106

Jan Garbarek's most famous albums, ____, in which his haunting tenor and soprano saxophones create atmospheric environments that evoke images of the fjords and tundra of his native country

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Dis

Front 107

"Heart of Glass"

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The Bad Plus

Front 108

Heart of Glass is off the album ______ ___ ____ ______

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These are the Vistas

Front 109

"Three Lotto Stories"

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Vijay Iyer and Mike Ladd

Front 110

Three Lotto Stories is off the album _____ ____ ________

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In What Language?

Front 111

"Three Lotto Stories" is produced by ____ ____ _____

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DJ Scotty Hard

Front 112

"Downtown"

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Kurt Elling

Front 113

Downtown is off the album _____ ___ _____

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Live in Chicago

Front 114

Downtown was recorded at the ___ _____ ___ ____

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Green Mill Jazz Club

Front 115

"Prismatica"

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Craig Taborn

Front 116

Prismatica is off the album ____ _____

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Junk Magic

Front 117

"Rambler"

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Arild Andersen

Front 118

Rambler is off the album _________

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Hyperborean

Front 119

____ is short for Macro-Basic Array of Structured Extemporization, and is a concept of how to create modern music, and started by avant-garde musician Steve Coleman

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M-Base

Front 120

There was a canonic breakdown b/c in jazz history, ___ style was predominant until another one comes along, and there was NO dominant style or person at this time

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ONE

Front 121

t/f
There was hope that a jazz renaissance was in the works b/c of the neo-swing craze and 2 major films were made about jazz musicians

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TRUE

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T/F
The neo-conservative movement became a dead end be/c of the new business model (reissue the music of old jazz musicians on CD's) and b/c Marsalis and others were leading jazz down a dead-end street

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true

Front 123

In the late 80's, the sale of jazz CDs received a bump, but by the mid 90s they went back ____

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down

Front 124

_____ - the trade organization that tracks record industry sales and trends, certifies gold and platinum records

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RIAA

Front 125

_____ ______ - bands dedicated to playing the music of a specific artist or jazz style

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Repertory Band

Front 126

The _______ _____ was in the older part of Manhattan, and was one of the signs that jazz was alive. However, it was too experimental or avant-garde to make it into the world of Lincoln Center, and generated creativity away from traditional forms

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Downtown Scene

Front 127

The ______ _______ is a club in the downtown jazz scene, opened by Michael Dorf, which was originally an art gallery/performance space that sold coffee and tea, but quickly established itself as the most important venue for avant-garde music performances

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The Knitting Factory

Front 128

Jazz session influence on ____ is that is has been apart of jazz culture since the earliest days in New Orleans, it always played an essential role in developing new jazz styles, and it contributed to Coltrane's solos and explorations in atonality, musical ideas, and endurance

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jazz

Front 129

The jazz session influence on ___ is that young and curious rock musicians were listening to Coltrane, and his influences in rock was most visible in psychedelic bands, such as the Grateful Dead

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rock

Front 130

T/F
Critics of Ken Burns' film said that there was an overexposure of Wynton Marsalis, includes more blacks then whites, stops at Davis's Bitches Brew (ignores last 40 years), did not bring popularity back to jazz

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True

Front 131

Why do some say jazz is dead? Some blame it on neocon philosophy of stressing technique over creativity, some point fingers at ______

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Marsalis

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_____ was named artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center

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Marsalis

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The ______ ___ ______ ____ opened in the Time Warner Center on NY's Columbus Circle, in the Jazz at Lincoln Center, and is spectacular compelx of performance halls, an educational cetner, and a state-of-the-art recording studio

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Frederick P. Rose Hall

Front 134

The Controversy surrounding the Frederick P. Rose Hall was that it grabbed the lion's share of what was available, and had fewer ____ for everyone else

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funds

Front 135

There weren't an abundance of women in jazz b/c they were usually the ______, but now there are more instrumentalists. Changing social attitudes=large influx of women into jazz programs. One sign of progress is the annual Mary Lou Williams in Jazz Festival at the Kennedy Center

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vocalists

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The _____ _____ is the explorers, a new breed of semi-jazz vocalists, who redefined the mesh of jazz and pop music

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Norah Effect

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_____ ______ ____ _____ is the first jazz recording

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Original Dixieland Jaz Band

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Herbie Hancock's ______ ________ incorporated industrial sounds and turntable scratching on the opening track

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Future Shock

Front 139

_____ ____ is a style created by London DJ's, and is used to entertain dancers in the city's club culture. It's a mix of jazz and hip-hop elements. Soon it described anything from disco to smooth jazz that sounded contemporary

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Acid Jazz

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A new generation of jazz musicians are open to using sequencers, samplers,etc. b/c of the rapid advancements in musical software caused many jazz musicians to take another look at the possibilities with ________

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Technology

Front 141

The DJ marked a fundamentally new cultural space, and in 2004, Berklee College of Music became the first music school to offer a class in ________..There are no rules anymore

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turntablism

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_________ was coined by Thomas Friedman, as refers to the ability of musicians around the world to absorb global music styles into their own musical traditions while retaining a strong sense of their local identity

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Glocalizatoin

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_______ was originally combinations of African and European, but there have been so many other outside influences

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Glocalization

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____ was opened by Melissa Caruso and John Scott, and became one of the leading performance spaces for cutting-edge rock and jazz. It expanded the experimental music program

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Tonic

Front 145

___ _____ - is a notable club in Manhattan that is carrying the torch for cutting edge jazz and improvised music

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55 Bar

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Some issues that jazz musicians are facing today...

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Payment remains constant at $50 a gig... a lot of musicians in supply, but not in demand.... govt. is cutting back spending