An advocate of neo-conservatism and an opponent of foreign influences in music.
What is Wynton Marsalis?
100
Old songs frequently originating in Broadway musicals that have been interpreted for many decades by jazz musicians.
What are standards?
100
This is an offshoot of fusion that incorporates musical styles from around the world.
What is world fusion?
100
This is the program that Wynton Marsalis started in 1987 in NYC, which has become part of the elite artistic institutions in the city.
What is Jazz at Lincoln Center?
100
Many jazz musicians and critics returned to traditional values in style and music.
What is neo-conservative?
200
A guitarist, and former sideman of Miles Davis, who incorporated Indian classical music into jazz.
Who is John McLaughlin?
200
Pointy sounds, which could have many qualities, such as sharpness, spaciness, and thinness.
What is pointillism?
200
The Village Voice coined this term to reflect the mixing between Jazz and Pop genres.
What is Pazz and Jop?
200
This style of music derives from soul music and dance R&B in the 1960s, exemplified by James Brown.
What is funk?
200
An updated version of easy listening with a heavy dose of crystal-gazing, fake spirituality, incense, reverb, and mind-numbing repetition. Usually sold in hot tub stores.
What is new age?
300
A former Miles Davis sideman and leader of his own fusion band, as well as a famous keyboardist. In his later career his compositions were a fusion of classical music and jazz, a prime example being "Spain."
Who is Chick Corea?
300
Edgy modern jazz style that commonly accompanied scenes of criminality, degeneracy, and psychological turmoil in TV and movies.
What is jazz-noir?
300
A movement that combines hard bop, soul, swing, and blues while reconnecting with dancing and popular music. An example is Lee Morgan's "Sidewinder."
What is the soul jazz movement?
300
A group of post WWII writers, artists, thinkers that were influenced by the improvisatory nature of jazz and particularly the complexity of be-bop. Notable figures include Jack Kerouac, and Allen Ginsberg.
What is the beat generation?
300
A cross-fertilization of jazz with forward looking elements and trends of classical and modern music. Peaked in the 1950s.
What is progressive jazz?
400
A radical free spirit who created his band the "arkestra" as well as his own record label "saturn," his musical style was eclectic, drawing on many types of music and lacked traditional harmony, melody, rhythm, meter, and texture.
Who is Sun Ra?
400
A rejection of traditional approaches to form and content in the arts, in favor of highly individual imagined realities that do not look or sound familiar to most people.
What is abstraction?
400
A political liberation movement in the 60s that inspired artists, musicians and writers, in relation to the civil rights movement.
What is black nationalism?
400
A community effort, based in Chicago, founded in 1965 by pianist Richard Abrams, which is still active today. They promoted jazz in local communities and welcomed all types of influences on jazz.
What is the AACM? Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians.
400
Mid-50's to 60's evolution of the big band that was characterized by a post-swing brassy sound and was featured in popular places of entertainment such as gambling centers, television and theatre.
What is show jazz?
500
Tenor saxophonist, raised in Philly, became famous as one of Miles Davis' sidemen in the '50s, also pushed the limits of bop vocabulary, as heard in "Giant Steps."
Who is John Coltrane?
500
A trumpet style used by Miles Davis in the late '60s which features relatively few notes, slower pace, lots of space, more high notes, and jagged melodies with no use of mute.
What is calling style?
500
These are notes that are usually high pitched that are rough sounding, passionate, breaking, straining, often marking a climactic point in a solo.
What is the gospel register?
500
The first marked John Coltrane's expansion of bop vocabulary, the second marked a voyage into free jazz.
What are the Atlantic years, and the Impulse years?
500
A genre, originally simply called "the new thing," that came into full swing in the '60s, liberated from musical norms of melody, rhythm, texture, form, harmony, timbre. Exemplified by Ornette Coleman.