Jazz
The city it originates from
What is New Orleans, Louisiana?
What are Mississippi and Texas?
The subgenres of Jazz
What are swing, bebop, and cool jazz?
This jazz musician is known as the King of Swing.
Who is Louis Prima?
The ability to create music on the spot or spontaneously. The musician = the creator.
A small group of musicians performing jazz.
What is a combo band?
A leader begins a vocal line which is then followed by a choral response.
Bebop
This jazz musician was known for performing cool jazz.
Who is Miles Davis?
There are three types: call and response, slow & melodic, and fast & rhythmic.
What are spirituals?
Common instruments in this genre.
What are the trumpet, piano, and saxophone?
Its main influences.
What are work songs and spirituals?
A subgenre of blues music that is usually played on the piano and features a fast tempo and syncopated rhythms
What is Boogie Woogie?
This great jazz singer was known as the Queen of Jazz.
Who is Ella Fitzgerald?
A plan to do the unexpected; breaking up beats; putting accents in different, unexpected places.
What is syncopation?
Improvised jazz singing in which the voice is used in imitation of an instrument.
What is scat singing?
Guitar, vocals, bass guitar, harmonica
Asubgenre of blues music that features fingerpicking, and bottleneck slide guitar techniques. It typically has a slower tempo and focuses on storytelling through lyrics.
What is Delta Blues?
Audiences adored him for his vocal delivery- the way he used his voice to convey a message effectively.
Who is Frank Sinatra?
An informal group of 5 jazz singers during the 1960’s.
What is the Rat Pack?
Jazz became the first sophisticated, _______ music in American history.
What is original?
The 4 elements of blues music.
What are
Call and Response formats
Set chord structures and blues notes (slightly lower pitched)
Focus on the guitarist/vocalist
A-A-B lyric structure
This 1930's subgenre of jazz was smooth, easy-listening and simple.
This blues guitarist was known as the King of the Blues.
Who is BB King?
Name any female blues artist we learned about from the presentations.
Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Memphis Minnie, Ruth Brown, Irma Thomas, Koko Taylor, Marcia Ball