The American city where jazz is said to have originated
What is New Orleans?
100
The typical lead instrument of a Dixieland band
What is cornet?
100
The type of band this era was characterized by
What is a big band?
100
The race who grew tired of the repetitive, commercial nature of white Swing music and decided to create a new style of their own
What is African Americans?
100
Trumpet player and singer who played in the first pianoless group and died after taking alot of drugs and falling out a window
Who is Chet Baker?
200
The race who migrated to America and became slaves to wealthy landowners
What were Africans?
200
The instrument who plays with the technique known as "slide"
What is trombone?
200
The numbers of members typically found to play in a big band
What is 15-18?
200
The virtuosic alto saxophone player who pioneered the performance of bebop
Who is Charlie Parker?
200
Singer who was discovered at a talent quest and went on to become the greatest scat singer of her time
Who is Ella Fitzgerald?
300
The style of singing that slaves used as their form of communication in the cotton fields
What is call and response?
300
The style of improvisation which characterised Dixieland music
What is collective improvisation?
300
While Dixieland focussed on spontaneous playing by ear, Swing music brought this new focus into creating music
What is arrangements?
300
The style introduced by musicians such as Dizzy Gillespie and Tito Puente which had great influence over the evolution of bebop
What is Latin music?
300
Composer, Arranger, Band Leader and Pianist who led his own band and wrote the famous "It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing"
Who is Duke Ellington?
400
The style pioneered by Scott Joplin, which was primarily played by pianists in bars and speakeasies?
What is ragtime?
400
The band who made the first jazz recording "Livery Stable Blues" in 1917
What is the Original Dixieland Jazz Band?
400
The decade which formed the height of the Swing Era
What is 1935-1945?
400
The geographical centre of bebop in America
What is New York?
400
Clarinet player who became one of the most famous white jazz musicians of his time and wrote the famous tune "In The Mood"
Who is Glenn Miller?
500
Aside from African, this is the other source of jazz's main cultural influence
What is European?
500
The District of New Orleans where musicians could play at clubs, bars and speakeasies and earn a living
What is Storyville?
500
The opposite of polyphony, made famous by the collective improvisation of Dixieland, was this style of group playing and arranging
What is homophony?
500
The street that became known as the Street of Bop, housing the most famous venues for bebop such as Minton's and Birdland
What is 52nd Street?
500
Cornet and trumpet player whose fame stretched across decades, states and styles and whose popularity as a key jazz figure was like no other musician of his or any other era