Famous Performers
This trumpeter learned to play cornet in a boys’ home and became one of the most influential figures in Jazz history.
Louis Armstrong
This style of piano music, led by Scott Joplin, was popular in the 1890s and is often seen as the forerunner of Jazz.
Ragtime
True or False: No one knows the true origin of the word Jazz.
True
Jazz began in the late 19th and early 20th century in this American city.
New Orleans
This type of Jazz improvisation involves everyone in the band creating their own part at the same time.
Collective Improvisation
Known for her incredible scat singing, this vocalist was often called the First Lady of Song.
Ella Fitzgerald
This type of Jazz developed in New Orleans during the late 19th and early 20th Century.
Dixieland Jazz
This rhythmic device places emphasis on weak or off-beats, giving Jazz its distinctive swing feel.
True or False: Blues Music influenced Jazz?
True
This scale has 5 notes per octave and is believed to be more than 50,000 years old.
Pentatonic Scale
This pianist and bandleader, nicknamed the Count, led one of the most swinging big bands of the Swing Era.
Count Basie
The Swing Era, featuring big bands like Benny Goodman and Glenn Miller, reached its peak popularity during this decade.
1930s and 40s.
In a Big Band, written arrangements are called this, and each musician reads from their own part.
Charts
This early style of piano music, with heavy syncopation, directly influenced Jazz.
Ragtime
This diagram shows the relationship between key signatures and is often imagined as a clock face.
Circle of 5ths
This alto saxophonist, nicknamed Bird, was a Bebop pioneer whose fast improvisations set a new standard for Jazz.
Charlie Parker
This fast, virtuosic style of Jazz developed in the 1940s and was associated with musicians like Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker.
Bebop
A Jazz vocal style where singers improvise nonsense syllables to imitate instruments.
Scat singing
These songs, sung by African Americans during slavery, often used the pentatonic scale and later influenced Jazz.
Spirituals
What is a walking bass line?
A series of connected bass notes, usually played as crotchets that outline the chord progression of a song and creates a sense of forward motion, like walking.
This trumpeter, nicknamed the Ambassador of Jazz, helped create Bebop, was known for his puffed cheeks, and composed “A Night in Tunisia.”
Dizzie Gillespie
The album 'King of Blue' by Miles Davis came out during which Jazz era?
Cool Jazz
What are the two genres of music blended to make fusion?
Jazz and Rock
New Orleans Jazz was sometimes called this other name, referring to its lively style and early roots.
Dixieland
What is the pattern of a blues scale?
(1, ♭3, 4, ♭5, 5, ♭7)