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This person is known for uniting many of the varied African-American expressions that formed the building blocks of jazz. This person also perfected the New Orleans Dixieland Jazz style, which featured a blend of simultaneous improvisations.
Who is "Jelly Roll" Morton?
A musical form distinguished by its reliance on improvisation and its rhythmic urgency.
What is Jazz?
Jazz is often described as this.
What is polyrhythmic?
Jazz began in this Southern city.
What is New Orleans?
This person is a jazz giant who grew up in New Orleans playing trumpet. Their playing was unique, with a warm vibrato and easy, full tone. They complemented their instrumental improvisations with scat singing using a very unique-sounding voice.
Who is Louis Armstrong?
This style is for the piano and evolved from ragtime music. It is built on a steady “oom-pah” rhythm in the left hand while the right hand shifts accents and embellishes the tune.
What is Stride?
A form of vocal improvisation on nonsense syllables.
What is Scat Singing?
Swing was popular during these years.
What is 1935-1945?
This person played a pivotal role in developing the swing band. They enlarged the swing band and established a standard instrumentation. They also placed an emphasis on solo playing through call and response known as “trading fours.”
Who is Fletcher Henderson?
This style has a melody line that stands out while the other lines are intentionally less obvious. It is often seen performed by brass bands, playing tunes such as "When the Saints Go Marchin' In."
What is Dixieland Jazz?
The special rhythmic character that jazz musicians add to the music. Changing an “even” duple division of each beat into a loosely skipping triplet feeling.
What is Swing?
Bebop players saw themselves as this instead of entertainers.
What are artists?
This person was a composer, arranger, and pianist whose career spanned all the different eras of jazz. They were playing professionally by age 6. They were able to adapt to changes as well as influence change with their music despite having significant drawbacks due to gender and racial bias. They composed for top swing orchestras, such as those headed by Ellington or Goodman.
Who is Mary Lou Williams?
This style is the special rhythmic character that jazz musicians add to the music. This style was popular from 1935-1945 and was primarily dance music.
What is Swing?
The combination of jazz and rock.
What is Fusion?
This musical style eventually took the spotlight from jazz.
What is Rock and Roll?
These TWO musicians led the new bebop movement. They changed jazz forever with new melodic and harmonic innovations.
Who are Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie?
A complex and sophisticated type of improvised jazz, this style is for listening rather than dancing.
What is Bebop?
Using notes outside of the written key signature of a song, very commonly used in Bebop music.
What is Chromatic?
This instrument eventually replaced the clarinet as the primary reed instrument in jazz.
What is the saxophone?