"Lost Your Head Blues"
This person wrote the song “Lost Your Head Blues.”
Who is Bessie Smith?
This music type of combo was featured in the Dippermouth Blues.
What is New Orleans jazz-style?
This person's piece “Hotter Than That” was recorded on December 14, 1927.
Who is Lillian Hardin Armstrong
This tenor saxophonist, featured in the second chorus of "The Stampede," later became one of the most influential sax players in jazz history.
Who is Coleman Hawkins?
This pattern of singing in African group singing involves a solo leader and a reply from a chorus.
What is call-and-response?
These men were the accompanying musicians for the recording of “Lost Your Head Blues.”
Who are Joe Smith and Fletcher Henderson?
This person is known for being called Satchmo or Satchelmouth
Who is Louis Armstrong?
The series of chords that are a foundation of a particular song are often called its _____.
What are changes?
This short, repeated motif, used as an interlude or transition in jazz compositions like "The Stampede," shares its name with a synonym for a casual accompaniment.
What is a vamp?
This district in New Orleans is considered the birthplace of jazz.
What is Storyville?
The characteristic motif of the composition illustrates the legacy of _____.
What is African singing?
These are the different nicknames for this kind of collective improvisation ending.
What is sock chorus and out chorus?
This “Era” of music dominated the 1930s-1940s.
What is the Swing Era?
This arranger and clarinetist, who played on "The Stampede," was known for his pioneering contributions to early swing and call-and-response arranging.
Who is Don Redman?
This “multi-layered effect” of heterophony played by jazz combos resembles Latin American and African percussion techniques.
What is collective improvisation?
Due to Smith’s innate sense of timing and phrasing, an enthusiast once argued that she would make a marvelous _____.
What is an “opera diva”?
This is the famous Disney movie that featured Oliver’s cornet solo.
What is The Princess and the Frog?
Who treated each section as a harmonized unit in a technique called Sectional writing or block voicing?
A4: Who is Fletcher Henderson?
"The Stampede" featured this arrangement technique where different instrument sections echo or respond to each other, rather than soloists trading phrases.
What is call-and-response between sections?
This poetic pattern is characteristic of blues lyrics, and was later spoofed by Andrew Lloyd Webber in Starlight Express (1987).
What is a a b (or anything similar)?
This instrument’s response was used as the “fill” between English (word) lyric lines.
What is the cornet?
This alligator who plays the trumpet is a tribute to someone who was in Dippermouth Blues.
Who is Louis?
Who was a co-founder of Latin Jazz, a substyle that added Latin American percussive techniques to the swing style?
Who is Duke Ellington?
This future jazz giant once said that Fletcher Henderson’s band was the model he wanted his own early New York big band to emulate.
A: Who is Duke Ellington?
This all-white ensemble made the first known “jazz” recording “Livery Stable Blues.”
What is the Original Dixieland Jazz Band?