Jazz Styles
This Jazz Style combined jazz with rock instruments and style.
What is Jazz-rock or Fusion?
This musician played Bebop.
(Bonus 100 pts. This is the instrument that musician played)
Who is Charlie Parker?
What is the Alto Saxophone?
This is the most unique aspect of Jazz; when the music is made up during the song.
What is improvisation?
This is where Jazz music originates from.
BONUS: These are the 5 styles of music that blend to make jazz. (50 points per correct one)
Where is America?
What is Gospel, brass bands, African Music, Blues, and Spanish Music?
This style of Jazz was popular in the 1930's. It featured big bands and peopled liked to dance to it.
What is Swing Music?
These two musicians became popular during the "Jazz Age"
BONUS 200pts (These are the pain instruments these musicians played.)
Who are Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong?
What are the piano and the trumpet?
These types of rhythms are when the accent falls off of the main beat. They are used many time in Ragtime and found throughout most styles of Jazz music.
What is syncopation?
These styles of music influenced Jazz.
What is Ragtime, Blues, and Spirituals?
This Jazz style featured Marching Brass Bands, improvisation and began in the Early 1900's in New Orleans.
What is Dixieland?
Nina Simone made history as a musician winning Grammys and being honored in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Beyond music, Nina contributed to the world in these two ways.
What is a Storyteller and Civil Rights Activist?
This is the term used to describe a performance for a jazz musician.
What is a gig?
This style of music is NOT a Jazz style, but is influenced by Jazz and Blues.
What is Rock 'n' Roll?
This style of Jazz is controlled and "cool" contrast to Bebop and is influenced by classical music.
What is Cool Jazz?
This Jazz Musician wrote the Jazz Standard, Take the A Train.
Bonus 100pts: This is the Style of Jazz of the piece, Take the A Train
Who is Duke Ellington?
What is Swing?
This is a vocal technique in which singers use "nonsense" syllables such as doo-be, bop, da, or shoo-be-do, in place of lyrics and often imitates different instruments.
What is scatting?
This is the name of the time period in the 1920's where many jazz musicians and bands became famous.
What is the "Jazz Age"?
The Boogie Woogie style of Jazz is influences by these two musical styles.
Bonus 100pts This is the nickname given to the style because of the walking bass line in the left hand with eight pitches.
What is Ragtime and Blues?
What is "Eight to the Bar"
These two Jazz musicians collaborated multiple times throughout the years and became one of the most famous duet partners to this day. One was mainly on vocals and one was mainly playing piano.
Who are Duke Ellington and Ella Fitzgerald?
This is when there is a brief pause in the music where the accompanying rhythm section stops playing, leaving a single soloist to improvise unaccompanied for a few measures.
What is a break?
Musicians get an opportunity to do this during a Jazz song while other musicians play the overriding melody and structure.
What is solo?