Jazz Performers
What is Louis Armstrong's Nickname
Satchmo or Satchel Mouth
What is improvization?
Making something up out of a lot of different choices
Who wrote the Entertainer?
Scott Joplin
Who's nickname was Jelly Roll
Ferdinand Morton
Hoots the owl is a jazzy saxophone playing bird on what kids TV show?
Sesame Street.
Who is the performer with the nickname "Bird"
Charlie Parker
Words that sound like nonsense?
Scatting, Scat singing, or scat
Who wrote Ain't Misbehavin?
Fats Waller
Name a jazz performer who played the piano?
Duke Ellington, Mary Lou Williams, Count Basie, Fats Waller, Etc
Who were the major players of bebop?
Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, May Lou Williams
Who is the mother of the Blues
Ma Rainey
What is a style?
Something in the same family that has different qualities
What a Wonderful World was made famous by?
Louis Armstrong
Name a Blues Singer?
Ma Rainey, Ella Fitzgerald, Bessie Smith
What instrument did former president Bill Clinton play?
Saxophone
Who is the King of Swing?
Benny Goodman
What is being in the groove?
Feeling the rhythm and beat perfectly
Who made "Lady is a Tramp" famous?
Ella Fitzgerald
Name bothers who had Jazz?
Tommey and Jimmy Dorsey
Who's saying was "Hi dee Hi Dee Hi dee Hoo?
Cab Calloway
Who's called "lady day"
Billie Holiday
When notes are off the main beat what is that called
syncopation
"Take the A Train" was written by who?
Duke Ellington
Who is the First Lady of Song?
Ella Fitzgerald
Who has more number 1 hits that Elvis and the Beatles combined?
Glenn Miller