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Who done it?
100
Earliest style of jazz played mostly on the piano.
What is Ragtime?
100
Ragtime pianist and composer dubbed the "King of Ragtime."
Who is Scott Joplin?
100
-African Americans and Whites must ride in separate train cars

-separate facilities but equal

What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
100
"Black Bottom Stomp" 

"Original Jelly Roll Blues"

Who is Jelly Roll Morton?
200
Big Band
What is Swing?
200
New Big Band leader who raised the standards of jazz performance to a new sophisticated level
Who is Duke Ellington?
200
-The banning of buying, selling, and distributing alcohol 

- created nightclubs (speakeasies) that gave jazz musicians opportunities to play their music

What is Prohibition? 
200
"Sing Sing Sing"

"King Porter Stomp"

Who is Benny Goodman? 
300
Smaller band that featured a march-like melody played in the streets of New Orleans.
What is Dixieland?
300
-Creator of multiple styles of Jazz : Bebop and Afro-Cuban

-was intrigued by the sounds of Latin rhythms and instruments 

-wanted to find a way to get people dancing again

Who is Dizzy Gillespie? 
300
-created larger bands

-more flexible rhythms that suited a new style of dance called the jitterbug

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What is The Great Depression?
300
"St. Louis Blues" 

"When the Saints Go Marching In"

Who is Louis Armstrong?
400
Mixture of blues, gospel and bebop styles.
What is Hard Bop?
400
-Famous trumpeter 

-Creator of Cool Jazz

-calmer, more laid back style 

Who is Miles Davis? 
400
-Musicians were drafted into the service

-Bands were traveling overseas to give soldiers a reminder of home


What is WWII?


400
"Salt Peanut"
Who is Dizzy Gillespie?
500
The fusion of Latin and Caribbean musical styles.
What is Afro-Cuban Jazz?
500
-stranded in Kansas City 

-famous swing pianist

-music was filled with blues and rhythmically strong 

-allowed for singers to put in riffs that created musical dialogue

Who is Count Basie?
500
-diversity of styles

-new generation of players who used bebop as a platform to explore new rhythmic and melodic forms that incorporated blues and gospel 

What is the Civil Rights?


500
"So What"
Who is Miles Davis?
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