Rock n Roll
Who had a hit with "Poor Little Fool" in 1958?
Ricky Nelson
What is Hard Bop?
Hard bop is a jazz style as a response to the cool, laid-back nature of cool jazz
what region of the us was cool jazz particularly associated with ?
West Coast
Which famous jazz musician is closely associated with the development of modal jazz ?
Miles Davis
What was the name of the popular music chart that country music was on ?
Billboard
Whoever could forget that great rock'n'roll song, "Rock Around the Clock"? Who had a hit with this song in 1954/55?
Bill Haley and his Comets
What is Hard bop a subgenre of?
Jazz
Name a famous album often cited as a key example of cool lazz ?
Birth of the cool
Instead of chords what do musicians focus on in modal jazz ?
Scales
What major cultural shift influenced country music growth in the 1950s ?
post WWll economic boom
Who had a hit with "Kansas City" in 1959?
Wilbert Harrison
Besides jazz what other genre influenced Hard bop?
Blues
What are two characteristics of cool jazz ?
Relaxed tempos and lighter tone
What is a key characteristics of the harmonic structure in Modal Jazz ?
Slow harmonic rhthm
What new media format helped popularize country music in this era ?
Television
What a great title for a rock and roll song - "Be-Bop-A-Lula". Who had a hit with this great song in 1956?
Gene Vincent
Which city was a major center for the development of Hard Bop?
New York City
What style of jazz did cool jazz come after?
Bebop
Name famous album that is a landmark example of Modal Jazz ?
kind of blue
Name a prominent female country music artist from the 1950s ?
Kitty Wells
Who had a hit in 1955 with "Maybellene"?
Chuck Berry
Name one instrument that was often added to Hard Bop groups that wasn't as common in earlier jazz stylee ?
Piano
How did cool Jazz different from bebops ?
Cool Jazz was like a chill older sibling to bebop energetic younger sibling
Who is considered a pivotal figure in the development of model jazz ?
Miles Davis
What was the name of Hank Williams backing band ?
The Drifting Cowboys