Jazz Musicians
Jazz Styles
Jazz Terms
Jazz Songs
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This jazz musician was a trumpet player but was better known for his low and "gravely" voice which he used to sing songs like "What a Wonderful World".
Who is Louis Armstrong?
100

This music is similar to Jazz but often has a sad tone and tells stories of hardship, it uses a particular scale. 

What is the blues?

100
This is when a musician is playing alone and the rest of the band plays quietly behind them.
What is a solo?
100
This jazz artist made the song "What a Wonderful World" famous.
What is Louis Armstrong?
200
This jazz artist was known for her use of scat singing and using her voice just like an instrument.
Who is Ella Fitzgerald?
200
This type of jazz singing is known for its use of nonsence words and syllables.
What is scat singing?
200
This term is used to describe two people playing or singing together.
What is a duet?
200
This artist made the songs "Take the A Train" and "It Don't Mean a Thing" famous.
Who is Ella Fitzgerald?
300
This musician was known as "The Duke" and played the piano in several jazz bands. He later became a manager for other jazz groups, forming bands and finding them places to play.
Who is Edward "Duke" Ellington?
300
This is the term used when musicians play the rhythms a little more relaxed. The rhythms aren't exact when playing this style.
What is swing?
300
This term is used to describe the technique used when a musician makes up what they're playing or singing as they go.
What is improvisation?
300
This artist created scat singing when he dropped his music on the floor during a recording session and made up the rest of the words.
Who is Louis Armstrong?
400

What famous writer coined the term "The Jazz Age"

F. Scott Fitzgerald

400

Jazz was born in what city?

New Orleans

400

What kind of Dances were popular at this time?

Swing, or the Charleston, or the Black Bottom, or the Fox trot

400

Where was the Harlem Renaissance?

New York

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