Music History Ch. 5, History Of Jazz

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What city is the birthplace of Jazz?

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New Orleans

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Where were slaves allowed to congregate and perform traditional dances from their African homelands through most of the 19th century?

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Congo Square

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Which previously established musical groups became the first jazz units in New Orleans?

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Marching Bands

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True or False:More African slaves were brought to North America than Brazil, Spanish America, or the Caribbean

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False

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True or False: Because of manumission, by 1800, the number of free blacks outnumbered slaves in the American Hemisphere

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True

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The St. Louis Style of ragtime that took America by storm at the turn of the century was led by what two black composer/publishers?

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Scott Joplin, WC Handy

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What was Storyville?

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A neighborhood in New Orleans set aside for brothels and gambling

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What instrument began to replace the tuba when jazz moved indoors?

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Double Bass

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What instrument replaced the banjo when jazz moved indoors?

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Piano

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Who was the ragtime-trained New Orleans pianist who became the first significant composer of jazz?

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Jelly Roll Morton

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Who was the first significant jazz soloist and the first internationally recognized jazz star who made the art of solo improvisation one of the basic foundations of jazz? He is possibly the most important jazz artist of all time.

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Louis Armstrong

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How did the Chicago Style of Jazz differ from the New Orleans hot jazz style?

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Chicago - Individual Solos
Hot - Collective Improv

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New York's James P. Johnson created a new swinging style of ragtime. What is this piano style called?

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Stride

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Who was the first significant white jazz musician, often compared with Armstrong in the Chicago?

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Bix Beiderbecke

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In what jazz style era did band members need a musical arranger and jazz musicians had to be able to read music?

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Big Band/ Swing

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What was the standard instrumentation of the swing orchestra?

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5 sax, 4 trombones, 4 trumpet, and a rhythm section.

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Who was the Harlem Renaissance pianist and bandleader that made jazz arranging and composition into fine art, broadcasting his music across the country from the Cotton Club?

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Duke Ellington

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Which swing-era bandleader led a band that included Louis Armstrong as a soloist and was dubbed the Inventor of Swing because of his arrangements?

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Fletcher Henderson

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What Kansas City swing band was known for its strong anchoring in the blues and often played their parts from memory instead of from charts?

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Basie Band

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The Big Band Era marked a 15 year period when popular hits were in the jazz/big band idiom. Though developed by Ellington and others in the 20s, when did it become a big hit with the public?

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1935

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What jazz artist popularized electric guitar with horn-like single line solos while playing with Benny Goodman?

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Charlie Christian

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Which jazz singer was influenced by Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong during her youth and was discovered in NY city by John Hammond?

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Billie Holiday

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Bebop was born and developed in what city, in clubs such as Minton's Playhouse and the Three Deuces?

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Harlem

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What was Dizzy Gillespie's instrument of expertise?

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Trumpet

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What was Charlie "Bird" Parker's instrument of expertise?

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Alto Sax

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What was Thelonious Monk's instrument of expertise?

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piano

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Which band leader fused Latin arrangements with bebop in his jazz big band, which included percussionist Chano Pozo?

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Tito Puente

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What was Miles Davis' instrument of expertise?

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Trumpet

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What West Coast pianist/band leader fused 20th century orchestral elements to jazz, playing tunes in odd time signatures like 5/4 and 9/8?

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Dave Brubeck

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Miles Davis made a 1949 recording for nine players inspiring the "Cool Jazz" era. What was the name of this album?

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The Birth of the Cool

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Joao Gilberto commonly recorded the music of which Brazilian songwriter, leading the Bossa Nova style to popularity in the 60s?

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Carlos "Tom" Jobim

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What artist/band leader compser first successfully brought the model approach to Jazz?

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Miles Davis

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What jazz saxophonist/composer released the highly influential Free Jazz album in 1960?

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Ornette Coleman

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How is the Free jazz style different from other jazz styles?

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No predetermined set of chord changes, it avoids preset meters or rhythm patterns

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What sax player pushed improvisation to new standards with the Giant Steps and A Love Supreme albums, introducing Eastern musical ideas and spiritualism into his music?

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John Coltrane

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Which 1969 album fused rock, funk, and jazz to start a new trend called fusion?

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Bitches Brew

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Which modern sax player/composer toured with Miles Davis, Cecil Taylor, and Dizzy Gillespie; managed a concert loft in new York, and moved to Florida to pursue large composition projects?

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Sam Rivers

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What modern New York sax player is well known outside of jazz for his classical compositions, his punk hardcore and modern funk/rock compositions and productions?

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John Zorn

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Which big band leader/pianist used costumes and stage effects to create experimental jazz, utilizing outer space themes?

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Sun Ra

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List jazz styles in their correct chronological order:

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Hot, Chicago, Stride, bigband/swing, Bebop, Cool, Free, Fusion