Eras
Dizzie Gillespie and Charlie Parker are the fathers of this style of jazz and changed the course jazz forever!
What is the Bebop Era?
This GOAT was a fashion icon and is the king of cool jazz.
Who is Miles Davis?
What is he shot a gun in the air for no reason?
Almost alive.... This musician just passed in 2021 and wrote the hit "Spain".
Who is Chick Corea?
One of the 1st jazz instrumental tunes to become a massive pop hit, with Paul Desmond on alto sax.
What is Take Five?
Art Blakey & his Jazz Messengers had many players come through the band, and if you played in it, you became famous. They primarily played during this jazz era
What is the hard bop era?
This GOAT's nickname comes from him having a huge smile.
Who is Louis Armstrong/"Satchmo"?
This Early Jazz musician had a huge ego and had a diamond-filled tooth.
Who is Jelly Roll Morton?
This pianist's major album Headhunters made jazz cool to young people again.
Who is Herbie Hancock?
This tenor saxophonist was a staple in Count Basie's Orchestra and we played a chart written for him this year.
Who is Lester Young?
Bossa Nova grew as a genre at the same time as this other similar style/era in the late 1950s-60s.
What is cool jazz/the cool jazz era?
This GOAT made jazz guitar what it is today. He played with Count Basie's Orchestra.
Who is Freddie Green?
This trumpeter ran for president as a joke in 1964.
Who is Dizzy Gillespie?
This trumpeter based in New York helped bring back traditional jazz through education.
Who is Wynton Marsalis?
These two iconic jazz trombonists recorded an album together in 1957.
Who are Kai Winding and JJ Johnson?
This is the era of jazz between Modal Jazz and Modern Jazz.
This GOAT got Igor Stravinsky to come to one of his performances.
Who is Charlie Parker?
This musician started practicing 10 hours a day after drummer Jo Jones threw a cymbal at him at a gig.
Who is Charlie Parker?
This bassist and vocalist won a Grammy for "Best New Artist" in 2011 over Justin Bieber and Drake.
Who is Esperanza Spalding?
This drummer is the reason drummers started to use hi-hat for time.
Who is Jo Jones?
This era of jazz was good while it lasted in the 1930s and 40s. This music was considered the "pop music" of its day!
What is the swing/big band era?
This GOAT was influenced heavily by other cultures' music and was the most important musician in the Modal Jazz Era.
Who is John Coltrane?
This person did not have a nickname; his first name was interesting enough. His middle name was:
What is "Sphere"?
This guy is a strong 95 years old and is dressed as the coolest cowboy on his album "Way Out West".
Who is Sonny Rollins?
This era is when people started to actually care about drummers...
Swing Era/Big Band Era