This city saw the birth of ragtime around the turn of the century.
What is New Orleans?
100
This was the decade that saw the birth of the Big Band tradtion.
What are the Roaring Twenties?
100
This man was one of the founding fathers of Bebop, and he had a soft spot for barnyard fowl.
Who is Charlie Parker?
100
This man was known as the father of cool jazz.
Who is Miles Davis?
100
This man was very avant-garde, and was responsible for creating fusion.
Who is Miles Davis?
200
This African-American composer was known for writing many of the most famous songs of this era, including "The Entertainer".
Who is Scott Joplin?
200
This city saw the largest growth of Swing music.
What is Chicago?
200
These words most aptly sum up the performance style of bebop.
What are fast, frenetic, crazy, unbridled, and/or sporadic?
200
This large city's music scene helped create the foundation for the Cool Jazz era.
What is New York City?
200
The improvisation technique of fusion can be compared to this earlier style.
What is bebop?
300
This was the primary purpose for the creation and proliferation of ragtime.
What is exploration of a new American art form?
300
This bandleader famously integrated his group to include the best performers, regardless of race.
Who is Benny Goodman?
300
This was the primary purpose musicians in this era played bebop for.
What is to establish jazz performers as virtuosos?
300
This famous saxophonist played with Miles Davis during this era, and was known for his exceptional lyricism on ballads.
Who is John Coltrane?
300
This city is associated with fusion because of its forward-thinking and innovative culture.
What is Los Angeles?
400
The two-word phrase that refers to ragtime's lack of improvisation is called this.
What is through-composed?
400
This instrument was switched from its traditional counterpart in Ragtime music, except in special cases.
What is the saxophone?
400
This midwestern city was known (in our class) for being the birthplace of bebop.
What is St. Louis, MO?
400
These were two primary purposes behind the development of Cool Jazz (you can give me one or both).
What are to make jazz music more accessible and to create a response to the frenzy of bebop?
400
The incorporation of these two instruments was an important development of fusion.
What are the electronic keyboard (synthesizer) and electric bass?
500
This man helped popularize the street performances of the ragtime era, incorporating trumpets, trombones, and clarinets with a rhythm section.
Who is Jelly Roll Morton?
500
This "royal" composer produced the most Big Band music of any composer, and was famous for performing with and leading one of the biggest bands of the era.
Who is Duke Ellington?
500
This was the standard instrumentation for most bebop ensembles.
What is a rhythm section and trumpet and/or saxophone?
500
This visual art form is most comparable to Cool Jazz (in a conceptual sense).
What is Impressionism?
500
This was Miles Davis' primary purpose for creating fusion (that differs from the reason that ragtime was created).