The Where
This city is widely considered the birthplace of Jazz.
Where is New Orleans?
This clarinet playing bandleader hired based on talent, not race, a revolutionary act for his time.
Who is Benny Goodman?
It's not an echo, but this building block of Jazz does involve some serious repeating.
What is call and response?
These are two of the principal types of music that helped give birth to early Jazz.
What are spirituals and field work songs?
The type of music heard here.
What is Dixieland?
Rivers, steamboats, and economic opportunity during the Great Depression helped cement this place in Jazz's history.
Where is Kansas City?
Who is King Oliver?
It's what happens when two musicians try to out-perform each other in alternating solos, as judged by audience applause.
What is a cutting contest?
A traditional Big Band is principally made up of these instruments in addition to rhythm instruments like the piano, bass, and drums.
What are trombones, trumpets, and saxophones?
The type of music heard here.
Be Bop
This city, a destination during the great migration, boasted dancehalls, black and tan clubs, and speakeasys that contributed to the development of Jazz music.
Where is Chicago?
This saxophonist, considered one of the greatest be bop style musicians, sometimes performed songs with titles that playfully referenced his ornithologic nickname.
In this back and forth contest, two or more bands fight for supremacy.
What is a battle of the bands?
The smaller size of be bop groups was important because of this external pressure.
What was gas rationing due to the war effort?
The type of music heard here.
Swing
This is considered the cradle of cool jazz.
Where is California?
Sometimes her music, like her song Strange Fruit, was controversial, but it was memorable and powerful.
Who was Billie Holiday?
Nonsense syllables don't make this style of singing any less challenging.
What is scat singing?
When two or more types of music are incorporated into a single work.
What is fusion?
The type of music heard here.
Cool Jazz
This city is home to the first Jazz festival in America.
Where is Newport, Rhode Island.
These trumpet players bucked the usual technique and puffed out their cheeks while they played. (Name either performer)
Who is Dizzy Gillespie or Louis Armstrong?
Instead of focusing on the written arrangement, this style of performing requires the artist to create the music as they play.
What is improvisation?
This music inspired by stream of consciousness writing allowed artists to express themselves in new, contemporaneous styles.
The type of song heard here.
The Blues