Chap. 1
A pervasive principle of interaction or conversation in jazz: a statement by one musician or group of musicians is immediately answered by another musician or group
Call and Response
This southern U.S. city was famed to be where Jazz was created.
New Orleans
Improvising by a vocalist, using nonsense syllables instead of words; popularized by Louis Armstrong
Scat Singing
______ cornet (trumpet) player, a jazz singer and bandleader has been considered the most important individual in the history of jazz.
Louis Armstrong
Jazz from the period 1935–1945, a jazz-specific feeling created by rhythmic contrast within a particular rhythmic framework (usually involving a walking bass and a steady rhythm on the drummer's ride cymbal)
Swing
note in which the pitch is bent expressively, using variable intonations;
Blue Note
This earliest jazz style, featured collective improvisation.
New Orleans Jazz (Dixieland)
Jazz nightlife was affected by the passage of the 18th Amendment to the Constitution, which...
Prohibited Alcohol in the U.S
Coleman Hawkins was an influential soloist on the
Tenor Sax
Large orchestras featuring sections of saxophones, trumpets, and trombones, prominent during the swing era.
Big Band
This artist made nearly two hundred recordings and starred in the short film St. Louis Blues only. Also sang the song "Reckless Blues".
Bessie Smith
The head melody instruments (trumpet, trombone, and clarinet) is called
Front Line
A form of jazz popular in the 1920s that attempted to elevate the music through symphonic arrangements
Symphonic Jazz
The speedy alternation of two or more notes.
Tremolo
The swing era took place during which two important historical events?
The Great Depression and World War II
A syncopated dance this pre-jazz song form was often played on the piano.
Ragtime
This piano/composer was known for blending ragtime and blues with New Orleans Rhythms. He claimed (falsely) to have invented Jazz.
Jelly Roll Morton
This bandleader, widely known as the "King of Jazz," was an early pop superstar who championed "symphonic jazz".
Paul Whiteman
A style of jazz piano relying on a left-hand accompaniment that alternates low bass notes with higher chords
Stride Piano
These two clarinet players and band leaders were both considered the "Kings of Jazz" during the swing era.
Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw
This Ragtime pianist composed over 50 ragtime songs insluding "Mapleleaf Rag".
Scott Joplin
In 1917, this jazz group was the first to make a commercial recording. Thus, it helped introduce jazz to a wider audience and helped grow around the world.
Original Dixieland Jazz Band
This piano player and bandleader, originally from Washington D.C. wrote programmatic music such as "Black and Tan Fantasy".
Duke Ellington
Bix Beiderbecke belongs to the first generation to learn jazz from___
Recordings
This trombone player and band leader was best-known for participating in the armed forces, making his band the Army Airforce Band. He also disappeared on December 15, 1944, when his military plane vanished over the English Channel.
Glen Miller