The Blues
The number of bars in a standard blues
What is 12
What does the ^ articulation mean?
What is "separated and accented" (daht)
What instrument did Miles Davis play?
What is "the trumpet"
Jazz music evolved out of a mixture of North American music mixed with music from what other continent?
What is "Africa"
The melody of a jazz standard is called
What is "the head"
What is four: the 1, 3, 5, and 7
What does a horizontal line over top of a note mean?
What instrument did Charlie Parker play?
"What is alto saxophone"
In Latin jazz, are 8th notes swung or straight?
What is "straight"
Plungers, cups, harmons, and straights are all...
What are "mutes"
A common scale that fits over all 12 bars of a standard blues tune
The Blues Scale
What is "legato/connected"
What instrument did Gene Krupa play?
What is "the drums"
What is "Brazil"
Stylistically, when a jazz musician barely plays a note so it leaves a faint impression of being there, this is referred to as .....
what is "ghosting"
The degrees of the scale that make up a blues scale
1, bIII, IV, bV, V, bVII, VIII
What is "Latin quarter notes"
What instrument did Sonny Rollins play?
What is the "tenor sax"
Salsa style is a genre that evolved in which country?
What is "Cuba"
Charlie Parker once played on a saxophone made of this unusual material
what is "plastic"
What do these Roman numerals mean?
I-IV-I-I
IV-IV-I-I
V-IV-I-I
What is the form/chord progression of a simple 12 bar blues
In a swing tune that has an offbeat 8th note followed by a rest, should that 8th note be tongued or slurred?
What is "tongued"
What instrument did Jaco Pastorius play?
What is "bass guitar"
a jazz style characterized by slow, melodic, lyrical playing is....
What is "a ballad"
Basie, Ellington, Kenton - what are these a reference to?
what is "famous jazz bands/jazz band leaders"