History
Bands
Musicians
Instruments
Mr. Woodbine Lore
100
The State that Jazz originated in:
Bonus: the city
Louisiana
(Bonus: New Orleans)
100
A style of band from the early 1900s consisting of a trumpet, trombone, clarinet, bass/tuba, piano/banjo and drums.
Jazz Band
100
Father of Ragtime piano, wrote songs like "The Entertainer" and "Maple Leaf Rag"
Scott Joplin
100
The 3 frontline instruments
Bonus: Which of the 3 was the lead.
Trumpet, Trombone, Clarinet (bonus: trumpet)
100
The first instrument Mr. Woodbine learned to play.
Piano
200
Buddy Bolden, often called the father of jazz music, was a cornet player who never made any recordings, but created this famous rhythm.
The Big Four
200
Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton's band that played together in the mid 1920's
The Red Hot Peppers
200
World War I Veteran, famous for bringing Jazz music to Europe, led a troop of all black soldiers.
Lieutenant James Reese Europe
200
Sidney Bechet famously switched to this instrument which led to it becoming a standard part of the Jazz band.
Bonus: The specific name for the instrument
Saxophone (bonus: Soprano Saxophone)
200
The year Mr. Woodbine started teaching at Hickory Creek.
2023
300
Leon "Bix" Beiderbecke, a famous trumpet player, made history as being the first famous white american jazz musician. Despite the law forbidding it, he often played with with this famous black jazz musician.
Louis Armstrong
300
Louis Armstrong's band that he started after leaving Joseph "King" Oliver's Band.
Bonus: The pianist, Louis Armstrong's future wife:
The Hot Five (bonus: Lillian Hardin Armstrong)
300
Ragtime pianist famous for popularizing the use of improvisation in early jazz music.
Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton
300
If a band didn't have a bass player it would often have a(n) ___ instead.
Tuba (or Sousaphone)
300
Mr. Woodbine's favorite jazz musician
Nat King Cole (the GOAT)
400
Back in the early-mid 1900s, white and black musicians in the south were unable to play to together because of this law:
Segregation
400
This style of band is common in the Military and also in in the modern day, common in sports. Used often in parades, featuring mainly brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments.
Marching Band
400
Louis Armstrong's teacher and mentor who's band he played with during the early 1920's
Joseph "King" Oliver
400
An instrument that is very similar to the trumpet but has a slightly different shape and sound.
Cornet
400
Mr. Woodbine's bestie:
Ms Aly
500
Jazz is the combination of the rhythms of ______, and the harmonies of _______ & the _______ _______.
Rhythms of Africa, Harmonies of Europe and the Native Americans
500
James Reese Europe's band that he took to France During World War 1.
369th Infantry
500
The Father of the March, served in the U.S. Marines and Navy, wrote lots of patriotic music.
John Philip Sousa
500
The banjo originally came from this continent.
Africa
500
Mr. Woodbine's favorite Disney Princess
Mulan
