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Brass Band
He is the father of American Music.
Who is Stephen Foster?
Ragtime is played on this instrument, typically in a seated position.
What is a piano?
This singer made over $2,000 a week.
Who is Bessie Smith?
Jazz music was born in this city.
What is New Orleans?
She was known as the Queen of Jazz.
Who is Ella Fitzgerald?
This added excitement to Vaudeville performances.
What is Music?
Tin Pan Alley was located in this city.
What is New York?
Traditional 12-bar blues music has this many lines of lyrics in each verse.
What is 3?
He was a musician, movie star, and human rights advocate.
Who is Louis Armstrong?
He is known as the March King.
Who is John Phillip Sousa?
Marching Bands originally got their equipment from this organization.
What is the Military?
This is how publishers got people to buy their music.
What is interesting cover art?
The Blues got its roots from this group of people in America.
Who are African American Slaves or Slaves?
Charlie Parker's nickname was the bird, his friends gave it to him because of what he loved.
What is fried chicken?
He had a bent trumpet.
Who is Dizzy Gillespie?
John Phillip Sousa invented an instrument called the helicon but we know it by a different name today.
What is a Sousaphone?
Ragtime accompanied this dance that is seen played at many carnivals in present times.
What is a Cakewalk?
This was a style of blues after musicians moved north.
What is city or electric blues?
Miles Davis did not play this style of Jazz.
What is Dixieland?
He was the house band at the Cotten Club in NYC.
Who is Duke Ellington?
This character, create by T.D. Rice, was used to name laws that enforced racial segregation.
What is Jim Crow?
This word describes the right hand playing crazy rhythms in Ragtime music.
What is Syncopation?
He was one of the first blues musicians recorded and was similar to Stevie Wonder.
Who is Blind Lemon Jefferson?
This song was made famous after Louis Armstrong passed away.
What is What a Wonderful World?
They were a powerhouse musical theatre duo from the 1940's through the 1950's.
Who are Rodgers and Hammerstein?