History of Blues
What is the Mississippi Delta?
A 12-bar blues is made up of _____ measures and the lyrics are in _____ format.
What are 12 measures and AAB?
A blues legend who was blind and played piano.
Who is Ray Charles?
Birthplace of jazz.
What is New Orleans?
The primary instrument played by the famous jazz musician Louis Armstrong.
What is the trumpet?
A musician starts singing a line of text, and then their instrument (like a guitar) seems to "answer" the line with a short melody.
What is call & response?
Which of the three major blues regions—Delta, Piedmont, or Chicago—is located in the Midwestern part of the United States?
What is Chicago Blues?
A musician who was inducted into the Rock n' Roll hall of fame and had rumors spoken about his abilities.
Who is Robert Johnson?
The musical characteristic where a musician makes up a melody or a variation on the spot is called ______.
What is improvisation?
Name the famous jazz composer and bandleader often called "The Duke," whose primary instrument was the piano.
Who is Duke Ellington?
One important instrument that is almost always used when a musician plays blues music.
What is the guitar?
Blues region which is located in Tennessee.
What is Memphis Blues?
Two legends inspired by one another to make their own music.
Who is Ma Rainey & Bessie Smith?
Three musical roots of jazz.
The "First Lady of Song" was downbeat magazine's best female jazz singer 18 years in a row.
Who is Ella Fitzgerald?
Earliest style/region of blues.
What is Delta?
Geographical area from central Georgia to central Virginia.
What is Piedmont Blues?
This song was one of her first records selling many copies.
What is "Downhearted Blues?"
Name one other instrument that is commonly part of the rhythm section in jazz, besides the drums or the bass.
What is the piano?
A key bebop musician known for playing the saxophone and a highly influential figure in the genre's development.
Who is Charlie Parker?
Three characteristics which make up the blues.
What are 12-bar blues, blues scale, and call & response?
Many blues musicians from the Delta region moved to Chicago in the mid-1900s. Explain one reason why musicians might have left the rural Delta region for a large city like Chicago.
What is to find better jobs?
Published "Yellow Dog Blues" in the Memphis region.
Who is W.C. Handy?
Besides improvisation, describe one other key musical characteristic of jazz that makes it sound unique, such as its rhythmic feel.
What is syncopation?
On his 1986 death he was called "the only white jazz player to be the best on his instrument." Also known as the founder of jazz.
Who is Benny Goodman?