Survey Of Jazz Midterm 2

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In the 1930's, Jazz was known as

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Swing

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Though the Swing Era occurred during _______, it did not get caught up in the era's deep anxiety.

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The Great Depression

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The famous ballroom in Harlem where social dancing was an intense, communal activity and the swing dance style emerged was called...

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The Savoy Ballroom

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Benny Goodman helped to bridge the racial gap of jazz by

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Hiring black arrangers to put together music for his band.

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Star Dust was composed by ______. The rom is _______.

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Artie Shaw, 32 bar popular song

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Jimmie Lanceford, "The Professor" expected ______ from his band members

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Impeccable appearance, right down to their socks

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The popular band leader who played the trombone and brought wing into mainstream entertainment was

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Glenn Miller

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A head arrangement is

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A flexible, unwritten arrangement created by the entire band

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An ostinato is

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A repetitive melody or melodic figure

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One example of the Boogie-Woogie is

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It's All Right, Baby

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The club that was well-known for housing Duke Ellington's band in hte 1920's was called

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The Cotton Club

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What are territory bands?

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Bands taht worked in a geopgraphic area no more than a day's drive from their headquarters

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Mary Lou WIlliams was a very talented jazz ______ and arranger

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Pianist

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Why were women rare in jazz performances?

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A woman on the stage, poeple reasoned, was not fit for middle-class society

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One O'Clock Jump which contains a Kansas City - style head arrangement was made famous by

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Count Basie and His Orchestra

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How was Juan Tizol's trombone different from a normal trombone?

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It contained valves like trumpet rather than a slide

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The piece that was made famous by Duke Ellington and His Orchestra and included Latin and Swing grooves is called

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Conga Brava

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Ellington's composition partner in his later career who was originally a classical composer was

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Billie Strayhorn

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Who was nicknamed "Father of the Tenor"?

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Coleman Hawkins

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When the notes of a chord are played successively, one at a time, this is called

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An Arpeggio

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"Body and Soul" includes a great melodic paraphrase at the beginning and harmonic improvisation by

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Coleman Hawkins

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A change came to the way jazz musicians performed for the radio in the 1940's because

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Radio producers stopped recording live performances

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What was Lester Young's style of improvisation?

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He would improvise a melody that fit the overall harmonic framework without dealing with every harmony

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Jazz was heard in nations outside of the U.S. where it

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All of the above

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Who toured Moscow in the 1950's and found that he had thousands of fans who referred to his records by catalog numbers?

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Benny Goodman

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How did racism affect jazz performers in Europe?

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Often black performers were consdiered chic and their race made them more popular

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After World War II, jazz musicians in Europe were treated as

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Heroes

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Django Reinhardt was known for his performances on

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The guitar

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The social activist who also performed on a number of instruments while also composing and arranging for Fletcher Henderson, Horace Henderson, Charlie Johnson, and McKinney's Cotton Pickers was

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Benny Carter

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Billie Holiday grew up in

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A school for delinquent girls

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Billie Holiday first recorded with

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Benny Goodman

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BIllie Holiday was influenced by singer ______ who was a well-known 1920's blues singer

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Bessie Smith

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Called an irrepressible spirit of musical joy, this singer used blues for up-tempo scat improvisations. Who is she?

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Ella Fitzgerald

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Singing that is improvised by a vocalist using nonsense syllables is called

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Scat Singing

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Dropping bombs in jazz means

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Unexpected bass drum explosions

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Be-bop musicians included all of the following EXCEPT

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Elliot "Ellie" Carter

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Beboop was made famous for

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Its complex dissonant harmonies

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Why were black bands often forced to tour and perform live?

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Answers 3 and 4 above

(they were not allowed to be on prime-time radio shows) & (they could not hold a lengthy engagement at major hotel ballrooms because of racial laws)

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Charlie Parker was known as one of the most gifted _____ in jazz

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Saxophonists

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Band leaders found it too difficult to include Charlie Parker in their bands because of

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His Heroine Addiction

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Dizzy Gillespie was known for his ________ playing

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Trumpet

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Gillespie recorded and toured with the most lucrative black band in existence in the late 1930's. The band was

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The Cab Calloway Orchestra

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Gillespie earned the nickname "DIzzy" because

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He had a fiery temperament and a wicked sense of humor

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Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker were both hired for __________ band

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Earl HIne's

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Jazz was an inexpensive way of recording for prodcuers because

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The chord progressions of songs were not copyrighted so jazz musicians could superimpose a new melody of the changes of a copyrighted song and not have to pay the copyright fee

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Which of the following songs was originally a tribute to Native Americans?

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Ko-Ko

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This work is _______

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Blue Skies

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This work is _______

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One O'Clock Jump

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This work is ______

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A Sailboat in the Moonlight

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This work is __________

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Ko-Ko