Honorific Nicknames
This vocalist is known as the Queen of Scat.
Who is Ella Fitzgerald?
This location is known as the birthplace of jazz.
What is New Orleans, Louisiana?
This musician wrote the popular song Rhapsody in Blue. The Library of Congress named an award annually given to to a composer or musician after him.
Who is George Gershwin?
This subgenre mixed Gottschalk's music with Sousas marches.
What is Ragtime?
This is the official name for street corner instrumental groups.
What are Spasm Bands?
Louis Armstrong was known as Pops to fellow musicians, Satchmo to friends, and this title given to him by the U.S. State Department.
What is America's Goodwill Ambassador of Music?
The four elements of jazz include improvisation, slurred/bent notes, instrumentation, and this element that subdivides the pulse into 2/3 and 1/3.
What are swing eighth notes?
This musician popularized a style of piano playing called "Stride Piano."
Who is James P. Johnson?
This style of jazz features an expanded ensemble with multiples of every instrument.
What is Big Band?
This neighborhood in New York was a hub for black poetry, music, philosophy, art, and literature.
What is Harlem?
This clarinet player is known as the King of Swing.
Who is Benny Goodman?
This style of singing uses wordless, nonsense syllables.
What is Scat?
This musician expanded chords from three or four notes into chords with five or six notes. He also composed over 2,000 works in his life.
Who is Duke Ellington?
This subgenre abandoned key, meter, chords, and structure.
What is Free Jazz?
This spelling of the word was changed into jazz after pranksters kept covering up the J.
What is Jass?
This saxophonist is known as the Father of Bop.
Who is Charlie Parker?
This location is where slaves would gather on Sunday afternoons to sing and dance.
What is Congo Square?
This musician is known as the first known jazz musician. He was a cornet player who prioritized volume over intonation.
Who is Buddy Bolden?
This subgenre merged jazz and classical into a new hybrid in the late 1950s.
What is Third Stream Jazz?
Somebody accidentally fell onto this musicians trumpet. Instead of getting angry, this musician rolled with it, claiming he could hear the sound faster.
Who is Dizzy Gillespie?
This musician was known as the Pioneer of Cool.
Who is Miles Davis?
This style of bass playing follows a one note per beat rhythm.
What is a Walking Bass Line?
This female musician sang the song Strange Fruit, one of her many emotionally charged songs.
Who is Billie Holiday?
This subgenre was created by taking the blues format, putting in the energy of swing, and then pushing the tempo.
What is Jump Blues?
This bandleader taught Louis Armstrong how to read music.
Who is Fate Marable?