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100
This is the upscale club in Harlem (Lenox and 142nd) that had a white clientele and black performers and waitstaff when Duke Ellington played here in the late '20s.
What is the Cotton Club?
100
This was the bandleader of the greatest Kansas City band from the later 1910s to the mid 1930s, famous for the signature tune "Blue Room."
Who is Bennie Moten?
100
This is the use of extra chords inserted between the normal chords of a song, making a more interesting harmonic color, especially when playing a solo.
What is interpolation?
100
This was a common occurrence at the Savoy Ballroom, when a lone dancer would "hire" a dance partner for a dime.
What is a taxi dance?
100
At the Kentucky Club in New York City in the early '20s, Duke Ellington was required to provided these two types of music, one that is picturesque, the other of with a strong stimulating rhythm.
What is show music vs. dance music?
200
This is the most famous dance hall in the country from 1926-1958, located in Harlem (Leonx and 141st), famous for having two stages at either end of the hall and welcoming both black and white audiences and performers.
What is the Savoy Ballroom?
200
This bandleader took over Bennie Moten's band and became famous for his tasteful and sparse piano playing, which eventually evolved from a striding style to a comping style.
Who Count Basie?
200
These abstract and non-traditional episodes surround improvisations based on traditional chord changes in bop tunes like 'Koko."
What are frame episodes?
200
In 1934, this national event signaled the end of an association of jazz with underground gangland elements.
What is the repeal of Prohibition?
200
During and after the swing era, 52nd St in midtown Manhattan was where this type of band began to cultivate a type of jazz art music.
What is small band?
300
This region, including Texas and Oklahoma, contributed earthy, bluesy elements to ragtime, the blues, early jazz, and swing.
What are the Southwest Territories?
300
The most influential guitarist in jazz, active from the '30s to his death in 1942, especially noted for his solo playing and beautiful tone.
Who is Charlie Christian?
300
In be-bop, using the snare drum and kick drum to provide unpredictable and surprising accents.
What is 'dropping bombs?'
300
This is a cultural movement that evoked both the 'roots' and the horizons of artistic black expression.
What is African American Modernism?
300
He was a major African American theorist and composer of jazz since the 1940s, and pioneered a style of progressive hard bop which used abstract ideas and borrowed from classical music.
Who is George Russell?
400
This style of jazz was known for combining the earthy bluesy elements of R&B with the stamina, brilliance, and virtuosity characteristic of 'city' players.
What is Kansas City style jazz?
400
This Toledo native was educated in classical music at the Ohio School for the Blind, but became famous as one of the greatest jazz pianists of all time, noted for his advanced harmonic vocabulary and blinding speed.
Who is Art Tatum?
400
This is the name for a gestural melodic movement in solo playing that may seem unfinished or incomplete. Bud Powell played this way, as did many others throughout the 1950s.
What is a fragment?
400
This is a new type of band invented by Miles Davis and Gil Evans for the 'Birth of the Cool,' which featured many solo players instead of sections and used unusual instruments.
What is an intimate big band?
400
A rough timbral quality, used to mark emotional expression, such as in a 'testifying' sound.
What is the gospel register?
500
This uptown club became famous as one of the after-hours spots where be-bop was forged by musicians jamming together and pushing each other beyond the limits of swing music.
What is Minton's Playhouse?
500
This be-bop drummer was an early pioneer of melodic approaches to the drumset, as well as a virtuosic sense of swing. He famously played with Clifford Brown before his untimely death.
Who is Max Roach?
500
This is when the chord changes from an established song or 'standard' are fitted with to a new melody or otherwise different setting.
What is a recomposition?
500
This was a visionary concept of Gunther Schuller's in the 1950s, in which jazz and classical music were to be merged into an entirely new genre of American music.
What is third stream?
500
Name two members (not Miles Davis) of the classic 50's quintet AND two members of the classic 60's quintet.
50's quintet: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Paul Chambers, Red Garland, Philly Joe Jones. 60's quintet: Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Tony Williams, Ron Carter.