Jazz
This Louisiana city is considered the birthplace of jazz.
What is New Orleans?
Known for popularizing scat singing.
Who is Cab Calloway?
The nickname of Charlie Parker.
What is Bird?
DAILY DOUBLE:He is known for the songs What a Wonderful World and La Vie en Rose.
Who is Louis Armstrong?
This vocal technique uses nonsense syllables instead of words.
What is scat singing?
The musical practice of creating melodies spontaneously during a performance.
What is improvisation?
This Harlem ballroom became famous for its integrated dance floor.
What is the Savoy Ballroom?
The South Carolina trumpeter who helped found bebop.
Who is Dizzy Gillespie?
This instrument made Louis Armstrong famous.
What is the trumpet?
This instrument family includes trumpets and trombones in a big band.
What is the brass section?
This New Orleans district became an important center for early jazz performances.
What is Storyville?
DAILY DOUBLE: This Renaissance helped shape the development of swing music.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
The instrument Bud Powell helped redefine in bebop.
What is the piano?
The New York City neighborhood that became the center of the Swing Era.
What is Harlem?
The composer of It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
Who is Duke Ellington?
He is known for transforming jazz into an art form through his big band compositions.
Who is Duke Ellington?
This musical technique allows different sections of the band to answer one another.
call-and-response?
This Harlem club became the birthplace of bebop.
What is Minton's Playhouse?
What are Rhythm, Brass, Reeds
The style of jazz created for listening rather than dancing.
What is bebop?
The human migration that helped spread jazz from New Orleans to northern cities.
What is the Great Migration?
These large ensembles became the signature of the Swing Era.
What are Big Bands?
Developed in the united states during this war.
What is World War II.
This public gathering place helped preserve African rhythms and dance in New Orleans.
What is Congo Square?
This particular genre was characterized as "music made for listening, not dancing"
What is Bebop?