A piano player who was the first to ever write Jazz Music on Paper.
Who is Jelly Roll Morton?
100
A combination of Blues and Ragtime music.
What is Jazz?
100
Louis Armstrong
What is the trumpet?
100
A form of "immigration" that brought a whole new type of music to the United States.
What is Slavery?
100
The symbol at the beginning of the music that tells you how to read the lines and spaces.
What is a clef sign?
200
The Blues guitarist who sold his soul to the devil to become "the best".
Who is Robert Johnson?
200
A combination of Slave work songs and White (European) harmony.
What is the Blues?
200
Bessie Smith
What is a Blues singer?
200
A wealthy White couple who expanded the audience for Jazz by dancing the Foxtrot.
Who are Vernon and Irene Castle?
200
How beats are divided and played.
What is a rhythm?
300
The Blues guitarist who electrified the Blues and thereby invented the Chicago-style of the Blues.
Who is Muddy Waters?
300
The style of Jazz that started in New York City but found a home on the West Coast with its mellow sound and smooth melodies.
What is "Cool Jazz"?
300
Charlie Parker
What is saxophone?
300
An electrified form of the Blues invented by Muddy Waters that capitalized on technological advances in amplification after World War II.
What is the Chicago Blues?
300
Three chords and Twelve Bars.
What is the Blues Form?
400
The piano player with the crazy name who is credited for inventing the Bebop style of Jazz.
Who is Thelonious Monk?
400
A type of Jazz music played by Ornette Coleman that, to the untrained ear, sounds like random noise.
What is Free Jazz?
400
Duke Ellington
What is the piano?
400
The body of water the helped to spread Blues and Jazz north from New Orleans.
What is the Mississippi River?
400
How eighth notes are counted in a rhythm.
What is 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +?
500
The trumpeter who popularized Jazz throughout New Orleans before dying in a mental hospital at the age of 34.
Who is Buddy Bolden?
500
A popular form of Jazz that was accepted by the White audience due to its "dance-ability". Musicians such as Benny Goodman and Glenn Miller popularized this kind of Jazz.
What is Swing Music?
500
John Coltrane
What is saxophone?
500
The legislation that freed the slaves in 1864, thereby allowing them to create their own singing style because they were now working alone instead of in large groups on plantations.
What is the Emancipation Act?
500
The first two lines in traditional Blues lyrics have this characteristic.