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Inventor of the Saxophone
Adolphe Sax
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Name an invention of the Jazz Era
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Instrument invented in the 1800's that became a vital part of jazz bands
Saxophone
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Origin of the blues style
Field hollers, gospel songs, spirituals
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Accenting a beat that is normally unaccented
Syncopation
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American composer who created some famous ragtime pieces like The Entertainer and The Maple Leaf Rag
Scott Joplin
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This new form of entertainment helped spread music in the 1920's
Radio
200
These instruments are the rhythm section of most jazz bands
Drumset, piano, guitar, bass
200
Origins of ragtime
Marches
200
Improvising vocal melodies and nonsense lyrics
Scat Singing
300
Famous Jazz trumpeter and singer credited with the invention of scat singing
Louis Armstrong
300
The year of Prohibition
1920
300
This instrument was used in Dixieland jazz as a substitute for a string bass
Tuba
300
One instrument plays an 'idea' and another answers back
Call and response
300
This device would be used with brass instruments to change their sound
Mutes
400
Big band leader and clarinetist known as the King of Swing
Benny Goodman
400
This event in the 1930's resulted in the ending of hot jazz and introduced the age of swing and blues
Great Depression
400
Instruments used in Dixieland jazz
Clarinet, trombone, trumpet, banjo, tuba, drums, piano
400
Fast, hot jazz style that followed Ragtime
Dixieland Jazz
400
"House party", dance, electronic style jazz
Acid Jazz
500
The Duke -- a famous jazz piano player
Edward Kennedy Ellington -- Duke Ellington
500
Big Band music stopped being popular because of this event in the 1940's
WWII
500
The approximate makeup/instrumentation of a Big Band
4 Trumpets 4 Trombones 5 Saxes Rhythm section (piano, bass, guitar, drumset)
500
Two main jazz epicenters of the USA
New Orleans and Chicago
500
Spontaneous style of jazz that has no real resolutions or direction
free jazz
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