Billie Holiday
In what year was Billie Holiday born?
What is 1915?
In what year was Louis Armstrong born?
What is 1901?
In what year was Duke Ellington born?
What is 1899?
What was the name of the first theatre Ella performed in from a raffle?
What is the Apollo Theatre?
In what American city did jazz develop in the late 1800s and early 1900s?
What is New Orleans, Louisiana?
What was Billie Holiday's main musical role?
What was a jazz vocalist or singer?
In which Louisiana city was Louis Armstrong born?
What is New Orleans?
What was Duke Ellington's main instrument?
What is the piano?
Name one skill that made Ella Fitzgerald a famous jazz vocalist.
What are scat singing, improvisation, vocal flexibility, or her ability to perform complex melodies?
What is scat singing?
What is improvising with the voice using sounds and syllables instead of regular lyrics?
In what city and state was she born?
What is Philadelphia, Pennsylvania?
What instrument helped make Louis Armstrong famous?
What is the trumpet?
In what year did Duke Ellington die?
What is 1974?
What instrument is commonly used in modern jazz music that serves as the foundation of melodic and rhythmic drive and did not yet exist in traditional years?
What is the electric bass?
What are Jim Crow laws?
What were laws and regulations that enforced racial segregation and discrimination, especially in the American South?
Who gave Billie Holiday the nickname “Lady Day”?
Who is Lester Young, the jazz saxophonist and friend who gave her the nickname?
What nickname was Louis Armstrong commonly known by?
What is Satchmo or Satch? (Also "Pops" or "Satchelmouth")
How did Duke Ellington receive the nickname "Duke"?
What is for his elegant appearance and manner?
What is the year cut-off between modern and traditional jazz music?
What is 1945?
How did Jim Crow laws affect Black jazz musicians?
What is they faced segregation, discrimination, and restrictions on where they could perform, travel, eat, or stay.
What song did Billie Holiday perform to bring attention to the racial violence?
What is “Strange Fruit”?
Name one famous Louis Armstrong song.
What is “What a Wonderful World,” “Hello, Dolly!,” or “When the Saints Go Marching In”?
Name one famous composition written by Duke Ellington.
What is “Take the ‘A’ Train,” “It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing),” or “Mood Indigo”?
What song made Ella Fitzgerald famous?
What is “A-Tisket, A-Tasket”?
What does the term call-and-response mean in music?
What is one musician or group performs a musical phrase, and another musician or group responds. (like a conversation)