Jazz Artists
Jazz Characteristics
Jazz Genres
Jazz History
Jazz Listening
100
This famous trumpet player, nicknamed "Satchmo," also scatted and sang with a rough, gravely voice.
Who is Louis Armstrong?
100
What a musician improvises during a piece while the band accompanies her.
What is a solo?
100
This type of jazz, popular in the 1930's, was dance music played by big bands.
What is swing?
100
Jazz originated in this city.
What is New Orleans?
100
Name the title and genre.
What is "It Don't Mean a Thing?" SWING
200
This famous trumpet player had puffy cheeks when he played fast-paced bebop jazz on his bent trumpet.
Who is Dizzy Gillespie?
200
This section of a jazz band is made up of bass and drums and sometimes guitar, piano, or banjo.
What is a rhythm section?
200
This type of jazz, played during the 1940's, features fast tempos and virtuosic solos.
What is bebop?
200
During this decade, swing was the most popular form of music in the United States.
What is the 1930's?
200
Name the genre.
What is bebop?
300
This famous female singer, nicknamed the "First Lady of Song," was famous for her childlike voice and was considered one of the best scatters in the world.
Who is Ella Fitzgerald?
300
Playing that focuses on spontaneous creation of music, not reading notes.
What is improvisation?
300
This type of jazz, popular in the 1920's, features a march-like accompaniment and a syncopated melody.
What is ragtime?
300
The harmonies and melodies of jazz were inspired by the music of this continent.
What is Europe?
300
Name the singer.
Who is Billie Holiday.
400
This famous bebop saxophonist had a reputation for taking very long solos.
Who is John Coltrane?
400
This rhythm puts emphasis on a weak beat or a beat that is usually not emphasized.
What is syncopation?
400
This type of jazz, created in the 1950s and 60s, featured experimental, stream of conscious playing.
What is free jazz?
400
The rhythms of jazz music were inspired from the rhythms of this continent.
What is Africa?
400
Name the genre.
What is ragtime?
500
This current trumpet player and jazz educator is equally skilled at playing jazz as he is playing classical music.
Who is Wynton Marsalis?
500
This is the name for the main melody or theme in a jazz piece or song.
What is the head?
500
This type of jazz, popular in the 1910's, featured brass band marches, ragtime and blues with improvisations by trumpet, trombone, and clarinet over a "rhythm section" of piano, guitar or banjo, drums, and upright bass or tuba.
What is dixieland?
500
This white band leader was one of the first leaders to have black musicians in his band.
Who is Benny Goodman?
500
Name the title and singer.
What is "A Tisket, A Tasket" by Ella Fitzgerald?
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