Jazz Cats
This bandleader coined the term "swing" as a jazz term with his song, "It Don't Mean a Thing if it Ain't Got That Swing"
Duke Ellington
This young musician first made a name for himself traveling around Europe playing for royalty at the age of 5
W.A. Mozart
this Italian musical term means to play the note "short"
staccato
how many flats in the key of Eb?
3
King of Rock
Elvis Presley
This jazzman created "free jazz" with his album of the same name
Ornette Coleman
This composer started going deaf at age 26?
Beethoven
This city is known as the birthplace of Jazz
New Orleans
How many sharps in the key of D?
2
King of Kings
Jesus
This piano player stomped so hard he needed a mattress under his foot when making recordings
Jelly Roll Morton
This Baroque musician was known as an organist in his day, but today we think of him mainly as a composer of sacred music
J.S. Bach
This piano player and composer popularized ragtime in the 1890's
Scott Joplin
name the notes of a C major triad
C- E-G
King of Swing
Benny Goodman
This jazzman sang "What a Wonderful World"
Louis Armstrong
This era of music followed the Classical era
Romantic Era
He was Benny Goodman's drummer
Gene Krupa
which note is flatted to make a major chord into a minor chord?
the third
King of Pop
Michael Jackson
This bandleader/trombonist was lost in a plane crash during World War II
Glenn Miller
He is best known for the famous "Hallelujah Chorus"
G. F. Handel
This stride piano player wrote "Ain't Misbehavin'"
Fats Waller
which mode works over a minor seventh chord?
dorian
King of the Blues
B.B. King