Influential Jazz Names
Was an American ragtime and jazz pianist, bandleader, and composer. He was jazz’s first arranger, proving that a genre rooted in improv is essential. (1890-1941)
Who is Jelly Roll Morton?
a style of jazz, often ascribed to jazz pioneers in New Orleans, but also descriptive of styles honed by slightly later Chicago-area musicians.
What is Dixieland?
What is your favorite jazz style?
What are Dixieland, Boogie Woogie, Swing, and bebop?
This is a type of music that is produced or rooted in the traditions of Western culture. Examples would be symphonies, concerti, sonatas, and Operas.
What is Classical Music?
American pianist who was the greatest jazz composer and bandleader of his time. One of the originators of big-band jazz, he led his band for more than half a century, composed thousands of scores, and created one of the most distinctive ensemble sounds in all of Western music.
Who is Duke Ellington?
is a style of blues music, usually played on the piano, that is closely related to jazz forms such as ragtime and stride piano.
What is Boogie Woogie?
Name two instruments that is popular in jazz music.
What is a trumpet, saxophone, piano, clarinet, double bass, tuba, trombone, and guitar?
Is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom.
What is Pop music?
Nicknamed "Satchmo", "Satch", and "Pops", was an American trumpeter and vocalist who was among the most influential figures in jazz. His career spanned five decades and different eras in the history of jazz.
Who is Louis Armstrong?
is a form of jazz that developed in the United States in the 1930s and 1940s. The name came from the emphasis on the offbeat, or weaker pulse.
What is Swing?
What is ......"any emotion"?
What is Rap music?
an African-American bandleader called “the first man of jazz” was at the forefront of the jazz movement.
Who is Buddy Bolden?
The first kind of modern jazz, which split jazz into two opposing camps in the last half of the 1940s. It is a staccato two-tone phrase distinctive in this type of music.
What is Bebop?
Where did Jazz first popular in America?
Where is New Orleans?
A type of popular music usually played on electronically amplified instruments and characterized by a persistent heavily accented beat, repetition of simple phrases, and often country, folk, blues elements.
What is Rock and Roll music?
Was an American jazz singer, sometimes referred to as the First Lady of Song, Queen of Jazz, and Lady Ella. She was noted for her purity of tone, phrasing, timing, and a "horn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her scat singing.
Who is Ella Fitzgerald?
Taking a song and making your own version of it on the spot.
What is Improvisation?
These are the places where someone may be able to find Jazz music.
Where is everywhere?
A genre of rock music that includes a group of related styles that are intense and powerful.
What is Heavy Metal?