Who's who
Jazz Styles
Instruments
Symbols and vocabulary
Dates and Places
100
The first international ambassador to bring Jazz to the world.
Who is Louis Armstrong?
100
Popular style of Jazz played in New Orleans.
What is Dixieland?
100
Louis Armstrong was best known for this instrument.
What is the trumpet?
100
Lowered notes on the 3rd, 5th and 7th notes of the major scale.
What is blue notes?
100
The Era known for Big Swing bands.
What is the 1920's - 1930's?
200
Known as the "First Lady of Jazz"?
Who is Ella Fitzgerald?
200
Popular dance music with an even rhythm that rocks back and forth.
What is swing?
200
The instrument played by Duke Ellington.
What is the piano?
200
*DAILY DOUBLE! Symbols used like pp and ff to describe how soft or loud to play.
What is dynamics?
200
The beginning of ragtime music.
What is 1910- 1920's?
300
The full name of the musician nicknamed "Duke"
Who is Duke Ellington?
300
A style of jazz using improvisation over a 12 measure chord structure.
What is the 12 bar blues?
300
"Scat" is a style of this instrument.
What is the voice?
300
To make up a new melody on the spot.
What is improvisation?
300
During this period in the history "call and response" along with "work songs" were common.
What is early 20th century or 1900's or the time of slavery.
400
Scott Joplin was best known for this style of music.
What is ragtime?
400
Music where a leader sings a phrase and a larger group echos back an answer.
What is call and response?
400
Dixieland bands include drums, trombone, clarinet, trumpet and this guitar like instrument.
What is the banjo?
400
The piano player uses the chords to add rhythmic patterns under the solo. Hint: Composing - os
What is comping?
400
Jazz traveled North and gained popularity in this mid-west city.
What is Chicago?
500
My nickname was "Satchmo" short for satchel mouth, because of my large mouth.
What is the nickname of Louis Armstrong?
500
This combination of Rock and Latin American rhythms created this style.
What is Latin jazz?
500
This instrument uses a slide to produce the low bass notes and sometimes takes the lead in solos.
What is the trombone?
500
A rhythmic pattern with accents on unexpected beats.
What is syncopation?
500
The birth place of Jazz.
What is New Orleans?
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