1900s - Scott Joplin wrote a lot of music in this piano based style.
What is Ragtime
100
1940s - Very fast, furious, and complex styles. Dizzy and Charlie Parker defined this style.
What is Bebop
100
Who was the musician who played the trumpet with big swollen cheeks?
What is Dizzy Gillespie
100
She was one of the first singers to sing in the blues style
What is Bessie Smith
100
This is vocal improvisation and making gibberish or nonsense syllables
What is scatting
200
Lasting into the 1930s, this styles grew out of field hollers and work songs. Its tunes are usually sung and about hard times and challenges.
What is Blues
200
1950s - This style of jazz features more relaxed rhythms. This is a laid back kind of style.
What is Cool Jazz
200
What jazz musician did we talk about that helped create the bebop style and played the saxophone?
What is Charlie Parker
200
He played the piano and composed music in the big band and swing style
What is Duke Ellington
200
This means playing or singing something that is made up on the spot
What is improvisation
300
1920s - This fast piano style features fast melodies over a walking bass line.
What is Boogie Woogie
300
1950s - Early songs were taken from blues. Elvis Presley was a musician of this style
What is Rock and Roll
300
What female was known as the "First Lady of Song" and the "Queen of Jazz".
What is Ella Fitzgerald
300
This female singer sang in the swing style
What is Billie Holiday
300
These songs were sung in the fields to keep people's mind off the work and to help them keep going.
What is work songs
400
1920s - An early style of Jazz that grew out of the marching bands in New Orleans. Drums, trumpets, trombones, saxes, clarinets, and even banjos were played.
What is Dixieland
400
1960s - Influenced by music from Brazil, the Caribbean, and Africa. The bossa nova was one of the first examples of this style.
What is Latin
400
What musician played the trumpet in the style of cool jazz?
What is Miles Davis
400
He played the piano and was a ragtime style musician.
What is Scott Joplin
400
The city were jazz started
What is New Orleans
500
1930s - Jazz in this style is usually played by Big Bands
What is Swing
500
1970s - Mixing electronic instruments including guitar, bass, and synthesizers, with improvisation and jazz harmonies.
What is Jazz Rock
500
This trumpet player was known for his swing style and raspy singing voice. He was one of the most famous jazz musicians.
What is Louis Armstrong
500
This piano player went blind when he was 7 years old. He also wrote a lot of jazz music
What is Ray Charles
500
music genre that originated in African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries