Jazz trumpet player and well-known for his song, "What a Wonderful World"
Who is Louis Armstrong?
100
In the 1930s, what new genre of music emerged?
What is Swing Music?
100
What type of music emerged in the 1940s?
What is Bebop music?
100
Name one popular dance of the 1930s.
What is the Jitterbug?
200
Identify two characteristics of African music that was later used in jazz music
What is (teacher decision)
200
Known as the "birthplace" of jazz music
What is New Orleans?
200
In 1931, a new type of record was released to record 30 minutes of music. What was important about this?
What is artists could now release albums.
200
Describe two characteristics of bebop music.
What is teacher decision
200
define "scat" singing
What is improvised non-sense words?
300
Identify two characteristics of European music that was later used in Jazz Music
What is (teacher decision)
300
Two popular dances of the 1920s
What is the Charleston and the Black Bottom?
300
Who standardized the instrumentation of the typical jazz band in the 1930s?
Who is Fletcher Henderson?
300
Bebop music was known as "musicians music." What does this mean?
What is music to please the musicians, rather than the crowd.
300
Define "improv"
What is made up on the spot?
400
In what year did the term "Jazz" come into use?
What is 1915
400
In 1927, Duke Ellington joined the Cotton Club in NYC. Why was this important toward the development of jazz music?
The Cotton Club was a whites-only club
400
Jazz Clarinetist in the 1930s known as the King of Swing.
Who is Benny Goodman?
400
Name two composers of bebop music
What is Dizzy, Thelonious Monk, and Charlie Parker
400
Describe what an "off-beat" is.
What is teacher decision
500
Explain 2 things that was so "roaring" about the "roaring 20's"
Economic and political growth. Nationwide advertising. Mass culture. Out of WW1. People listened to same music. More Americans in cities than on farms.
500
Name 2 of Armstrong's accomplishments
What is (TD)
500
Describe two of the contributions of swing music in the 1930s.
What is (teacher decision)?
500
Describe two things unique to Dizzy Gillespie
What is his cheeks and bent trumpet
500
Why was Benny Goodman's performance of at the Palmor Ballroom in LA important?
started the beginning of the Swing Era. People started to like his music, before hating it before.