Jazz Artists
Jazz Characteristics
Jazz Genres
Jazz History
Jazz Uniqueness
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 style of music was about story telling and characterized by W.C. Handy, and provided the melodic foundation for instrumental improvisation for early jazz.
What is blues?
100
Jazz originated in this city.
What is New Orleans?
100
The 5 beats in each measure of Brubeck's "Take Five" gave it the distinction of having an odd what?
What is meter?
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, the first style of what we call "modern 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
This style, brought to America by tenor saxophonist Stan Getz, originated as a slowed down samba in what South American country?
What is Bossa Nova?
300
This famous tenor saxophonist was nicknamed "Prez" by Billie Holliday
Who is Lester Young?
300
Playing that focuses on spontaneous creation of music, not reading notes.
What is improvisation?
300
This type of jazz, popular in the 1890s - 1920s, features a march-like accompaniment and a syncopated, non-improvised melody.
What is ragtime?
300
The harmonies of jazz, as well as the instruments used, were inspired by the music of this continent.
What is Europe?
300
In a strange twist, Duke Ellington's first significant big band gig was at this "white's only" club in Harlem.
What is the Cotton Club?
400
This famous bebop, modal, and free jazz saxophonist had a reputation for taking very long solos, but is so revered by some that they have named him a religious Saint. He even made an album about God called "A Love Supreme."
Who is John Coltrane?
400
Known as the "King of Swing," Benny Goodman made this instrument a very popular jazz instrument
What is the clarinet?
400
This type of jazz, created in the late 1940s and 1950s, featured bebop musicality and solos as well as music that was more listenable and danceable.
What is Cool?
400
The rhythms, singing style, and improvisations of jazz music were inspired by the music traditions of this continent.
What is Africa?
400
"Mister Magic" was a grooving smooth jazz tune by this tenor saxophonist popular in the 1970s and 1980s.
Who is Grover Washington Jr.
500
This artist was on the leading edge of multiple jazz styles including bebop, cool, modal, and fusion.
Who is Miles Davis?
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 1910s and 1920s, 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, clarinet playing band leader was one of the first leaders to have black musicians in his band.
Who is Benny Goodman?
500
This man's band was known as the "Swingingest."
Who is Count Basie?
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