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Who is Louis Armstrong?
This Bill Challis composition manages to feature the jazz, symphonic jazz, and pop elements of the Paul Whiteman Orchestra in one piece.
What is "Changes"?
This Manhattan neighborhood became a hotbed of jazz creativity and culture in the 1920's following the migration of thousands of African Americans from the American South and the West Indies.
What is Harlem?
This popular piano style took the "oom-pah" pattern of Ragtime and developed it into a more elaborate leaping from bass to chord sturcture in the left hand.
What is Stride Piano?
This new medium was a technological breakthrough that allowed jazz to expand its audience, and it facilitated the employment of many musicians.
What is radio?
Paul Whiteman invented this title for a style of jazz that he felt elevated New Orleans jazz to the level of high art by fusing jazz with orchestral music.
What is "Symphonic Jazz"?
The piece Rhapsody In Blue was commissioned from this young unknown composer by Paul Whiteman for his "Experiment in Modern Music" concert at Aeolian Hall in 1924.
Who is George Gershwin?
This type of nightclub emerged as a result of bootleg liquor sales and promoted the development of jazz improvisation, notably stride piano style.
What is a speakeasy?
Paul Whiteman did an unprecedented thing by adding Bing Crosby to his already large dance orchestra in this role.
What is a featured vocalist or singer?
Much of the standard songbook that makes up jazz repertoire from the 1920's-1950's comes from this other musical genre.
What is "Broadway" or Musical Theater?
Who is James P. Johnson?
This swing arrangement by Don Redman was named after a popular chewing tobacco and featured Louis Armstrong on trumpet with the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra.
What is "Copenhagen"?
These three "spheres of influence" cemented New York as the center of Jazz Culture beginning in the 1920's.
What are sociological, musical, and commercial?
In addition to James P. Johnson, these two pianists are considered the primary sources of "Harlem Style", or stride piano.
Who are Willie "The Lion" Smith and Fats Waller?
This movement celebrated many African American authors and artists, but was initially reticent to acknowledge jazz as a culturally worthy inclusion.
What is The Harlem Renaissance?
This bandleader is most known for popularizing the use of saxophones in the reed section of the dance band, thus mellowing out the sound of jazz from its New Orleans roots.
Who is Art Hickman?
This James P. Johnson composition named after a southern coastal city created a dance craze that shared the same name.
What is "Charleston"?
This piece of legislation created a constitutional ban on the sale of alcohol in the United States.
What is the 18th Amendment?
This repeated device was used frequently by Don Redman in his arrangements, particularly as background for a soloist.
What are "riffs"?
This paper invention allowed early stride piano players to slow down the music of James P. Johnson to learn his technique.
What is a player piano roll?
Who is Don Redman?
This Ellington piece evokes the duality of a small group of integrated night clubs in Harlem.
What is "Black and Tan Fantasy"?
This popular Harlem Club featured hot dance music by the Duke Ellington Orchestra, elaborate floor shows, and catered to exclusively white audiences.
What is The Cotton Club?
This type of scale infuses a surprising and futuristic sound to James P. Johnson's "You've Got To Be Modernistic"
What is a whole-tone scale?
This midwestern cornet player was a featured soloist with the Paul Whiteman Orchestra, and sadly died at the age of 28 without ever gaining the approval of his parents for his music career.
Who is Bix Beiderbecke?